---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 10141"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "10141"
heading: "Ready Reserve; Standby Reserve; Retired Reserve: placement and status of members; training categories"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/10141"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part I — Organization and Administration"
  - "Chapter 1005 — Elements of Reserve Components"
---

# §10141. Ready Reserve; Standby Reserve; Retired Reserve: placement and status of members; training categories

- (a) There are in each armed force a Ready [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6), a Standby [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6), and a Retired [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6). Each [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) shall be placed in one of those categories.
- (b) [Reserves](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) who are on the inactive status list of a [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) component, or who are assigned to the inactive [Army National Guard](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-2) or the inactive [Air National Guard](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-4), are in an inactive status. Members in the Retired [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) are in a retired status. All other [Reserves](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) are in an [active status](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-4).
- (c) As prescribed by the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9), each [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) component except the [Army National Guard of the United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-3) and the [Air National Guard of the United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-5) shall be divided into training categories according to the degrees of training, including the number and duration of drills or equivalent duties to be completed in stated periods. The designation of training categories shall be the same for all [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) and the same within the Ready [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) and the Standby [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1661(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2972.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in sections 267 and 2001 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–337, § 1661(a)(2)(A), (3)(A).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Dec. 1, 1994, except as otherwise provided, see section 1691 of Pub. L. 103–337, set out as a note under section 10001 of this title.