---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1038"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1038"
heading: "Service credit: certain service in Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1038"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 53 — Miscellaneous Rights and Benefits"
---

# §1038. Service credit: certain service in Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps


In computing years of [active service](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-3) of any female member of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4), there shall be credited for all purposes, except the right to promotion, in addition to any other service that may be credited, all [active service](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-3) performed in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps after May 13, 1942, and before September 30, 1943, if that member performed [active service](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-3) in the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) after September 29, 1943. Service as an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps shall be credited as [active service](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-3) in the status of a [commissioned officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-2), and service as an enrolled member of the Corps shall be credited as [active service](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-3) in the status of an [enlisted member](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-6).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 86–142, § 1(1), Aug. 7, 1959, 73 Stat. 289.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Election of Pension or Compensation

Pub. L. 86–142, § 2, Aug. 7, 1959, 73 Stat. 289, provided that a person entitled to a pension or compensation under any law administered by the Veterans’ Administration, based on the active service described in section 1 of Pub. L. 86–142, which added section 1038 to Title 10, Armed Forces, could elect within 1 year after Aug. 7, 1959 to receive that pension or compensation in lieu of any compensation under the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act; that such an election is irrevocable; and that the election does not entitle that person to the pension or compensation for any period before the date of election.

### Back Pay or Allowances

Pub. L. 86–142, § 3, Aug. 7, 1959, 73 Stat. 289, provided that: “No person is entitled to back pay or allowances because of any service credited under section 1 of this Act [enacting this section].”