Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

§654 Minimum Service Requirement for Certain Cyberspace Occupational Specialties

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART II — PERSONNEL › CHAPTER 37 — GENERAL SERVICE REQUIREMENTS › § 654

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

Anyone who joins the Marine Corps and completes cyberspace operations officer training as a direct recruit must serve eight years. Service obligation means the required time on active duty, or for reservists who trained while on active-duty-for-training, the required time serving in the Selected Reserve after training.

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Title 10, §654

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(a)Cyberspace Operations Officer.—
The minimum service obligation for any member who successfully completes training in the armed forces in direct accession to the cyberspace operations officer occupational specialty of the Marine Corps shall be eight years.
(b)Service Obligation Defined.—
In this section, the term “service obligation” means the period of active duty or, in the case of a member of a reserve component who completed cyberspace operations training in an active duty for training status as a member of a reserve component, the period of service in an active status in the Selected Reserve, required to be served after completion of cyberspace operations training.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 654, added Pub. L. 103–160, div. A, title V, § 571(a)(1), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1670, related to policy concerning homosexuality in the armed forces, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 111–321, § 2(f)(1)(A), Dec. 22, 2010, 124 Stat. 3516.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Pub. L. 111–321, Dec. 22, 2010, 124 Stat. 3515, repealed former section 654 of this title effective 60 days after the later of the Secretary of Defense receiving a report, which was released Nov. 30, 2010, and the President transmitting to the congressional defense committees a written certification, which was transmitted July 22, 2011.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 654

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110