---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1207"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1207"
heading: "Disability from intentional misconduct or willful neglect: separation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1207"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 61 — Retirement or Separation for Physical Disability"
---

# §1207. Disability from intentional misconduct or willful neglect: separation


Each member of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) who incurs a physical disability that, in the determination of the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5), makes him unfit to perform the duties of his office, [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7), [rank](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-8), or [rating](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9), and that resulted from his intentional misconduct or willful neglect or was incurred during a period of unauthorized absence, shall be separated from his armed force without entitlement to any benefits under this chapter.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 94.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 1207 | 37:278. | Oct. 12, 1949, ch. 681, § 408, 63 Stat. 823. |

The words “Each member * * * who” are substituted for the words “When a member * * * such member”. The words “is determined to have” are omitted as surplusage.