---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1061"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1061"
heading: "Survivors of certain Reserve and Guard members"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1061"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 54 — Commissary and Exchange Benefits"
---

# §1061. Survivors of certain Reserve and Guard members

- (a) **Benefits.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall prescribe regulations to allow [dependents](/usc/10/1072.md?p=2) of members of the [uniformed services](/usc/10/1072.md?p=1) described in [subsection (b)](#b) to use commissary and exchange stores on the same basis as [dependents](/usc/10/1072.md?p=2) of members of the [uniformed services](/usc/10/1072.md?p=1) who die while on [active duty for a period of more than 30 days](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-2).
- (b) **Covered Dependents.—** A [dependent](/usc/10/1072.md?p=2) referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) is a [dependent](/usc/10/1072.md?p=2) of a member of a uniformed service who died—
  - (1) while on [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1), [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) for [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9), or [inactive-duty training](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-7) (regardless of the period of such duty); or
  - (2) while traveling to or from the place at which the member was to perform, or has performed, [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1), [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) for [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9), or [inactive-duty training](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-7) (regardless of the period of such duty).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–370, § 1(c)(1), July 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 841.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Section is based on Pub. L. 99–145, title III, § 308, Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 618.