---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 10211"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "10211"
heading: "Policies and regulations: participation of Reserve officers in preparation and administration"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/10211"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part I — Organization and Administration"
  - "Chapter 1007 — Administration of Reserve Components"
---

# §10211. Policies and regulations: participation of Reserve officers in preparation and administration


Within such numbers and in such [grades](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) and assignments as the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9) may prescribe, each armed force shall have [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) of its [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) components on [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) (other than for training) at the seat of government, and at headquarters responsible for [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) affairs, to participate in preparing and administering the policies and regulations affecting those [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) components. While so serving, such an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) is an additional number of any staff with which he is serving.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1661(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2978.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in section 265 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.