Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110
§12603 Attendance at Inactive-duty Training Assemblies: Commercial Travel at Federal Supply Schedule Rates
Title 10 › Subtitle E — Reserve Components › PART II — PERSONNEL GENERALLY › CHAPTER 1217 — MISCELLANEOUS RIGHTS AND BENEFITS › § 12603
Summary
Allows a Reserve member to use commercial travel under Federal supply schedules to go to and return from inactive-duty training. The Secretary of Defense must write rules for how that travel works and put in safeguards to stop abuse. The government will not pay back the Reservist for travel costs. For purposes of section 501 of title 40, that travel counts as transportation used by a military department.
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Title 10, §12603
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(a)Federal Supply Schedule Travel.—
Commercial travel under Federal supply schedules is authorized for the travel of a Reserve to the location of inactive duty training to be performed by the Reserve and from that location upon completion of the training.
(b)Regulations.—
The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe in regulations such requirements, conditions, and restrictions for travel under the authority of subsection (a) as the Secretary considers appropriate. The regulations shall include policies and procedures for preventing abuses of that travel authority.
(c)Reimbursement Not Authorized.—
A Reserve is not entitled to Government reimbursement for the cost of travel authorized under subsection (a).
(d)Treatment of Transportation as Use by Military Departments.—
For the purposes of section 501 of title 40, travel authorized under subsection (a) shall be treated as transportation for the use of a military department.
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Amendments
2002—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 107–217 substituted “section 501 of title 40” for “section 201(a) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 481(a))”.
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10 U.S.C. § 12603
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110