§9065 Commands: territorial organization

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 8074(a)8074(b)8074(c)10:1838(a)(1).10:1838(a)(2).10:1838(b).Sept. 19, 1951, ch. 407, §§ 308, 309, 65 Stat. 332. 8074(d)10:1839. In subsection (b), the words “from time to time” are omitted as surplusage. In subsection (d), the words “have the duties and powers” are substituted for the words “shall perform such duties and exercise such powers”. The words “of America”, “elements of”, “other provisions of”, and “so assigned” are omitted as surplusage.

2019—Pub. L. 116–92 renumbered section 9074 of this title as this section. 2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 8074 of this title as section 9074 of this title. 2006—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–163 struck out “its Territories,” after “the United States,”. 2001—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 107–107 struck out subsec. (c) which read as follows: “The Military Air Transport Service is redesignated as the Military Airlift Command.” 1986—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 99–433 substituted “Except as otherwise prescribed by law or by the Secretary of Defense, the” for “The”. 1965—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 89–37 added subsec. (c). 1958—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 85–599, § 4(f)(1), substituted provisions permitting the Air Force to be divided into such organizations as the Secretary of the Air Force may prescribe for provisions which established an air-defense, a strategic, and a tactical command in the Air Force. Subsecs. (b) to (d). Pub. L. 85–599, § 4(f)(2), redesignated subsec. (d) as (b), and repealed former subsecs. (b) and (c) which permitted the Secretary of the Air Force to establish additional commands and organizations in the interest of efficiency and economy of operation, and, for the duration of any war or national emergency, to establish new major commands or to discontinue or consolidate major commands.

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.