---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1088"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1088"
heading: "Air evacuation patients: furnished subsistence"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1088"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 55 — Medical and Dental Care"
---

# §1088. Air evacuation patients: furnished subsistence


Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and under regulations to be prescribed by the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5), a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) entitled to medical and dental care under this chapter may be furnished subsistence without charge while being evacuated as a patient by [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) aircraft of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 91–481, § 2(1), Oct. 21, 1970, 84 Stat. 1081.)