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§7065 Assignment and Detail: Officers Assigned or Detailed to Basic and Special Branches

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle B— Army › Part I— ORGANIZATION › Chapter 707— THE ARMY › § 7065

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Commissioned Army officers can be assigned to the general staff or serve as inspectors general. The Secretary may place members in special fields like intelligence, counter-intelligence, and military government, or move someone from one branch to work in another. Members not on active duty can also be assigned to basic or special branches, other groups, or organizations the Secretary considers appropriate. No Army officer may be given specialized technical, scientific, or professional work unless they are qualified and meet standards no lower than those that were in place on June 28, 1950. For duties like those in civilian professions—such as engineering, law, medicine, or theology—an officer must have similar education, training, or experience unless urgent needs prevent it.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §7065

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(a)Commissioned officers of the Army may be detailed as general staff officers and as inspectors general.
(b)Members of the Army may be detailed to duty in particular fields specified by the Secretary, including intelligence, counter-intelligence, and military government.
(c)Members of the Army appointed in or assigned to one branch may be detailed for duty with any other branch.
(d)Members of the Army while not on active duty may be assigned to any basic or special branch, or to such other branches or groups, and to such organizations, as the Secretary considers appropriate.
(e)No officer of the Army may be assigned to perform technical, scientific, or other professional duties unless he is qualified to perform those duties and meets professional qualifications at least as strict as those in effect on June 28, 1950. If the duties to which an officer is assigned involve professional work that is the same as or is similar to that usually performed in civil life by a member of a learned profession, such as engineering, law, medicine, or theology, the officer must have the qualifications, by education, training, or experience, equal to or similar to those usually required of members of that profession, unless the exigencies of the situation prevent.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 3065(a)3065(b) 3065(c)10:1g(c) (1st 27 words).10:1g(c) (less 1st 27 words).10:1g(d).
June 28, 1950, ch. 383, § 306 (less (a) and (b)), § 404(e), 64 Stat. 269, 274. 3065(d)10:1g(e). 3065(e)10:1g(f). [Uncodified:
June 28, 1950, ch. 383, § 404(e), 64 Stat. 274]. In subsections (a) and (c)–(e), the words “Under such

Regulations

as the Secretary of the Army may prescribe” and “under [Under]

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prescribed by the Secretary of the Army” are omitted, since the Secretary has inherent authority to issue

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appropriate to exercising his statutory functions. In subsection (b), the word “specified” is substituted for the words “designated from time to time”, in 10:1g(c). The words “but not limited to”, in 10:1g(c), are omitted as surplusage. In subsection (d), the words “basic or special branch” are substituted for the words “branches of the Army provided for in this section”. The word “considers” is substituted for the words “may deem to be”. In subsection (e), the words “No officer * * * may be * * * unless he is” are substituted for the words “officers of the Army * * * shall * * * possess”. The last 16 words of the first sentence are substituted for the Act of June 28, 1950, ch. 383, Title IV, § 404(e), 64 Stat. 274. The last sentence is substituted for 10:1g(f) (1st 9 words).

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 3065 of this title as this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

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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.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 7065

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60