---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1172"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1172"
heading: "Enlisted members: during war or emergency; discharge"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1172"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 59 — Separation"
---

# §1172. Enlisted members: during war or emergency; discharge


A [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) enlisted under [section 518 of this title](/usc/10/518.md) may be discharged at any time by the President, or otherwise according to law.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 90–235, § 3(a)(1)(A), Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 757.)