---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1184"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1184"
heading: "Removal of officer: action by Secretary upon recommendation of board of inquiry"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1184"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 60 — Separation of Regular Officers for Substandard Performance of Duty or for Certain Other Reasons"
---

# §1184. Removal of officer: action by Secretary upon recommendation of board of inquiry


The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned may remove an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) from [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) if the [removal](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) of such [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) from [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) is recommended by a board of inquiry convened under [section 1182 of this title](/usc/10/1182.md).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–513, title I, § 110, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2874; amended Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title V, § 503(b)(2), (c)(1), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2003.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1998—Pub. L. 105–261 substituted “inquiry” for “review” in section catchline and “board of inquiry convened under section 1182 of this title” for “board of review convened under section 1183 of this title” in text.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Sept. 15, 1981, but the authority to prescribe regulations under this section effective on Dec. 12, 1980, see section 701 of Pub. L. 96–513, set out as an Effective Date of 1980 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.