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10 U.S.C. § 507 — Extension of enlistment for members needing medical care or hospitalization
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**(a)** An enlisted member of an armed force on active duty whose term of enlistment expires while he is suffering from disease or injury incident to service and not due to his misconduct, and who needs medical care or hospitalization, may be retained on active duty, with his consent, until he recovers to the extent that he is able to meet the physical requirements for reenlistment, or it is determined that recovery to that extent is impossible.
**(b)** This section does not prevent the retention in service, without his consent, of an enlisted member of an armed force under [section 972 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section972&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)** An enlisted member of an armed force on active duty whose term of enlistment expires while he is suffering from disease or injury incident to service and not due to his misconduct, and who needs medical care or hospitalization, may be retained on active duty, with his consent, until he recovers to the extent that he is able to meet the physical requirements for reenlistment, or it is determined that recovery to that extent is impossible.
**(b)** This section does not prevent the retention in service, without his consent, of an enlisted member of an armed force under [section 972 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section972&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Enlisted Members Required To Make Up Time Lost.—** An enlisted member of an armed force who—
(1) deserts;
(2) is absent from his organization, station, or duty for more than one day without proper authority, as determined by competent authority;
(3) is confined by military or civilian authorities for more than one day in connection with a trial, whether before, during, or after the trial; or
(4) is unable for more than one day, as determined by competent authority, to perform his duties because of intemperate use of drugs or alcoholic liquor, or because of disease or injury resulting from his misconduct;
is liable, after his return to full duty, to serve for a period that, when added to the period that he served before his absence from duty, amounts to the term for which he was enlisted or inducted.
**(b) Officers Not Allowed Service Credit for Time Lost.—** In the case of an officer of an armed force who after February 10, 1996—
(1) deserts;
(2) is absent from his organization, station, or duty for more than one day without proper authority, as determined by competent authority;
(3) is confined by military or civilian authorities for more than one day in connection with a trial, whether before, during, or after the trial; or
(4) is unable for more than one day, as determined by competent authority, to perform his duties because of intemperate use of drugs or alcoholic liquor, or because of disease or injury resulting from his misconduct;
the period of such desertion, absence, confinement, or inability to perform duties may not be counted in computing, for any purpose other than basic pay under [section 205 of title 37](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section205&num=0&edition=prelim), the officer’s length of service.
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
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more than six years. No enlisted member is entitled to
be reenlisted for a period that would expire before the
end of his current enlistment.’’
1983—Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 98–94 substituted ‘‘at
least two but not more than six years’’ for ‘‘two, three,
four, five, or six years’’.
1978—Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 95–485 redesignated
subsec. (e) as (d). Former subsec. (d), which provided
that in the Regular Army female persons may be en-
listed only in the Women’s Army Corps, was struck
out.
1974—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93–290, § 1, struck out provi-
sions which prohibited the Secretary from accepting
original enlistments from female persons less than 18
years of age, and which required consent of the parent
or guardian for an original enlistment of a female per-
son under 21 years of age.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 93–290, § 2, substituted provisions
permitting the Secretary to accept original enlist-
ments of persons for the duration of their minority or
for a period of two, three, four, five, or six years, for
provisions which limited the Secretary to accept origi-
nal enlistments from male persons for the duration of
their minority or for a period of two, three, four, five,
or six years, and from female persons for a period of
two, three, four, five, or six years.
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For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and
assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities
and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relat-
ing thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security,
and for treatment of related references, see sections
468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Secu-
rity, and the Department of Homeland Security Reor-
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