---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 10207"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "10207"
heading: "Mobilization forces: maintenance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/10207"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part I — Organization and Administration"
  - "Chapter 1007 — Administration of Reserve Components"
---

# §10207. Mobilization forces: maintenance

- (a) Whenever units or members of the [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) components are ordered to [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) (other than for training) during a period of partial mobilization, the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9) shall continue to maintain mobilization forces by planning and budgeting for the continued organization and training of the [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) components not mobilized, and make the fullest practicable use of the Federal [facilities](/usc/10/18232.md?p=2) vacated by mobilized units, consistent with approved joint mobilization plans.
- (b) In this section, the term “partial mobilization” means the mobilization resulting from action by Congress or the President, under any law, to bring units of any [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) component, and members not assigned to units organized to serve as units, to [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) for a limited expansion of the active [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1661(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2977.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 276 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–337, § 1661(a)(2)(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.