§7072 Judge Advocate General’s Corps

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 307210:61–1 (1st sentence, less applicability to strength).June 28, 1950, ch. 383, § 308 (1st sentence, less applicability to strength), 64 Stat. 270. The words “authorized by section 21f and 21h, respectively, of this title” are omitted as surplusage. The word “grade” is substituted for the word “rank”. The words “but the Secretary shall not assign to the Judge Advocate General’s Corps any officer who has been appointed and commissioned in some other special branch or in the Regular Army without specification of branch” are omitted as covered by section 3064 of this title.

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 3072 of this title as this section. 2016—Pars. (3) to (5). Pub. L. 114–328 redesignated pars. (4) and (5) as (3) and (4), respectively, and struck out former par. (3) which read as follows: “three officers in the grade of brigadier general;”.

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.