Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102

§1178 System and Procedures for Tracking Separations Resulting From Refusal to Participate in Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART II — PERSONNEL › CHAPTER 59 — SEPARATION › § 1178

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each military branch’s leader must create a system to track, record, and report when service members in that branch are separated because they refused to take the anthrax vaccination.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §1178

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

The Secretary of each military department shall establish a system for tracking, recording, and reporting separations of members of the armed forces under the Secretary’s jurisdiction that result from procedures initiated as a result of a refusal to participate in the anthrax vaccine immunization program.

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Amendments

2011—Pub. L. 111–383 struck out subsec. (a) designation and heading before “The Secretary” and struck out subsec. (b). Text of subsec. (b) read as follows: “The Secretary of Defense shall consolidate the information recorded under the system described in subsection (a) and shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives not later than April 1 of each year a report on such information. Each such report shall include a description of— “(1) the number of members separated, categorized by military department, grade, and active-duty or reserve status; and “(2) any other information determined appropriate by the Secretary.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Comptroller General Report Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title VII, § 751(d)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–194, directed the Comptroller General, not later than Apr. 1, 2002, to submit to committees of Congress a report on the effect of the Department of Defense anthrax vaccine immunization program on the recruitment and retention of active duty and reserve military personnel and civilian personnel of the Department of Defense.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 1178

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102