Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73
§8469 Band: composition
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle C— - Navy and Marine Corps › Part PART III— - EDUCATION AND TRAINING › Chapter CHAPTER 853— - UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY › § 8469
Summary
The Naval Academy Band must have one leader, one second leader, and other enlisted Navy members with ranks that largely match the U.S. Navy Band; they count for retirement and reenlistment bonus as unassigned.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §8469
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(a)The Naval Academy Band shall be composed of one leader, one second leader, and such enlisted members of the Navy as may be assigned.
(b)In determining years of service for the purpose of retirement, and in determining eligibility for reenlistment bonus, the members who are assigned as leader and second leader shall be treated as if they had not been so assigned.
(c)The enlisted members assigned to the Naval Academy Band shall be distributed in grade substantially the same as in the United States Navy Band.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 696934 U.S.C. 1091a.Feb. 14, 1931, ch. 184, 46 Stat. 1111; July 17, 1953, ch. 226, § 2, 67 Stat. 181. In subsection (a) the words “of the Navy” are supplied since the requirement that the distribution in ratings be similar to that in the United States Navy Band indicates that the Naval Academy Band should not include members of the Marine Corps, and it is so interpreted. In subsection (b) the words “an officer in the grade of warrant officer, W–1,” are substituted for the words “a warrant officer” because the Warrant Officer Act of 1954 established the grade of warrant officer, W–1, in lieu of all the former warrant officer (as distinguished from commissioned warrant officer) grades. The second sentence covers that part of the second proviso which relates to pay and makes reference to the Career Compensation Act of 1949, since it is that Act which governs entitlement to basic pay and the computation of cumulative years of creditable service. Retirement rights and reenlistment bonuses referred to in the second proviso are covered in the third sentence of this subsection, giving recognition to the fact that the status of the members who are assigned as leader and second leader of the band remains unchanged in these respects.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 6969 of this title as this section. 1962—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 87–649 repealed first and second sentences which related to pay and allowances for the leader and second leader of the Naval Academy Band, and to crediting of service for pay purposes. See section 207 and 424 of Title 37, Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of
Amendments
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.
Effective Date
of 1962 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 87–649 effective Nov. 1, 1962, see section 15 of Pub. L. 87–649, set out as an
Effective Date
note preceding section 101 of Title 37, Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services.
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 8469
Title 10 — Armed Forces
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73