---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1207a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1207a"
heading: "Members with over eight years of active service: eligibility for disability retirement for pre-existing conditions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1207a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 61 — Retirement or Separation for Physical Disability"
---

# §1207a. Members with over eight years of active service: eligibility for disability retirement for pre-existing conditions

- (a) In the case of a member described in [subsection (b)](#b) who would be covered by section [1201](/usc/10/1201.md), [1202](/usc/10/1202.md), or [1203](/usc/10/1203.md) of this title but for the fact that the member’s disability is determined to have been incurred before the member became entitled to basic [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) in the member’s current period of [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1), the disability shall be deemed to have been incurred while the member was entitled to basic [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) and shall be so considered for purposes of determining whether the disability was incurred in the line of duty.
- (b) A member described in [subsection (a)](#a) is a member with at least eight years of [active service](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-3).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title VI, § 653(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 666.)