---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 12101"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "12101"
heading: "Definition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/12101"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part II — Personnel Generally"
  - "Chapter 1203 — Enlisted Members"
---

# §12101. Definition


In this chapter, the term “enlistment” means [original](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-10) enlistment or reenlistment.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1662(b)(1), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2988.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Dec. 1, 1994, except as otherwise provided, see section 1691 of Pub. L. 103–337, set out as a note under section 10001 of this title.