Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§8460 Midshipmen: Clothing and Equipment; Uniform Allowance
Title 10 › Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps › PART III — EDUCATION AND TRAINING › CHAPTER 853 — UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY › § 8460
Summary
The Secretary of the Navy can set an amount credited to a midshipman when first admitted to cover his first required uniform and gear. That amount will be taken out of his pay. If a midshipman is discharged before graduation and still owes for clothing advanced to him, he must give back enough clearly military clothing and gear to cover the debt. If those items are worth less than what he owes, the remaining debt is canceled.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §8460
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The Secretary of the Navy may prescribe the amount to be credited to a midshipman, upon original admission to the Naval Academy, for the cost of his initial issue of clothing and equipment. That amount shall be deducted from his pay. If a midshipman is discharged before graduation while owing the United States for pay advanced for the purchase of required clothing and equipment, he shall turn in as much of his clothing and equipment of a distinctively military nature as is necessary to repay the amount advanced. If the value of the clothing and equipment turned in does not cover the amount owed, the indebtedness shall be canceled.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 696034 U.S.C. 1052a.Aug. 22, 1951, ch. 340, § 1, 65 Stat. 196. The word “new” before “midshipmen” and the word “subsequently” after “deducted” are omitted as surplusage. The words “while owing the United States for pay advanced for the purchase of” are substituted for the words “who is indebted to the United States on account of advances of pay to purchase”.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 6960 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
Amendments
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. § 8460
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102