---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1173"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1173"
heading: "Enlisted members: discharge for hardship"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1173"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 59 — Separation"
---

# §1173. Enlisted members: discharge for hardship


Under regulations prescribed by the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5), a [regular](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-12) [enlisted member](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-6) of an armed force who has [dependents](/usc/10/1072.md?p=2) may be discharged for hardship.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 93–64, title I, § 102, July 9, 1973, 87 Stat. 147.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective July 1, 1973, see section 206 of Pub. L. 93–64, set out as a note under section 401 of Title 37, Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services.