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§12319 Ready Reserve: Muster Duty

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle E— Reserve Components › Part II— PERSONNEL GENERALLY › Chapter 1209— ACTIVE DUTY › § 12319

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

A Ready Reserve member can be ordered, under rules the Secretary of Defense sets, to do muster duty once each year even if they do not agree. They must do at least two hours that day, and the total time spent, including travel there and back, cannot be more than one day in a calendar year. That muster duty and the travel that goes with it count like inactive‑duty training for military pay and veterans benefit rules (titles 37 and 38), except for section 206(a) of title 37. Muster duty does not count toward computing retired pay under chapter 1223.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §12319

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(a)Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, a member of the Ready Reserve may be ordered without his consent to muster duty one time each year. A member ordered to muster duty under this section shall be required to perform a minimum of two hours of muster duty on the day of muster.
(b)The period which a member may be required to devote to muster duty under this section, including round-trip travel to and from the location of that duty, may not total more than one day each calendar year.
(c)Except as specified in subsection (d), muster duty (and travel directly to and from that duty) under this section shall be treated as the equivalent of inactive-duty training (and travel directly to and from that training) for the purposes of this title and the provisions of title 37 (other than section 206(a)) and title 38, including provisions relating to the determination of eligibility for and the receipt of benefits and entitlements provided under those titles for Reserves performing inactive-duty training and for their dependents and survivors.
(d)Muster duty under this section shall not be credited in determining entitlement to, or in computing, retired pay under chapter 1223 of this title.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–337, § 1662(e)(2), renumbered section 687 of this title as this section. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103–337, § 1675(c)(10), substituted “1223” for “67”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1994 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 103–337 effective Dec. 1, 1994, except as otherwise provided, see section 1691 of Pub. L. 103–337, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 10001 of this title.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 12319

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60