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27 CHAPTER 37.—SERVICE REQUIREMENTS FOR R E S E R V E S Sec. 651. Members: required service.
§ 651. M e m b e r s: required service (a) Each male person who becomes a member of an armed force before his twenty-sixth birthday shall serve in the armed forces for a total of eight years, unless he is sooner discharged because of personal hardship under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense or, if he is a member of the Coast Guard while it is operating under the Department of the Treasury, by the Secretary of the Treasury. For the purpose of computing service under this subsection, a member of an armed force may count service in the National Security Training Corps as if it were service in the armed forces. (b) Each person covered by subsection (a) who is not a Keserve, and who is qualified, shall, upon his release from active duty, be transferred to a reserve component of his armed force to complete the service required by subsection (a). (c) A member covered by subsection (a) who is released from active duty shall become a member of an organized unit of his reserve component or of an officers' training program of his armed force, if the Secretary concerned determines that there is a vacancy that can be filled by that member without undue personal hardship. C H A P T E R 39.—ACTIVE DUTY Sec.
671. Members not to be assigned outside United States before completing training. 672. Reserve components generally. 673. Ready Reserve. 674. Standby Reserve. 675. Retired Reserve. 676. Retention after becoming qualified for retired pay. 677. Reserve ofScers: use of In expansion of armed forces. 678. Reserves: for organizing, administering, etc., reserve components. 679. Active duty agreements.. 680. Active duty agreements: release from duty. 681. Reserves: release from active duty. 682. Reserves: kinds of duty. 683. Reserves: duty with or without pay. 686. Reports to Congress.
§ 671. Members not to be assigned outside United States before completing training No member of an armed force may be assigned to active duty on land outside the United States and its Territories and possessions, until he has had four months of basic training or its equivalent. § 672. Reserve components generally (a) I n time of war or of national emergency declared by Congress, or when otherwise authorized by law, an authority designated by the Secretary concerned may, without the consent of the persons affected, order any unit, and any member not assigned to a unit organized to serve as a unit, of a reserve component under the jurisdiction of that Secretary to active duty for the duration of the war or emergency
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