---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 1218a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "1218a"
heading: "Discharge or release from active duty: transition assistance for reserve component members injured while on active duty"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/1218a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 61 — Retirement or Separation for Physical Disability"
---

# §1218a. Discharge or release from active duty: transition assistance for reserve component members injured while on active duty

- (a) **Provision of Certain Information.—** Before a member of a [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) [component](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13) described in [subsection (b)](#b) is demobilized or separated from the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4), 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 shall provide to the member the following information:
  - (1) Information on the availability of care and administrative processing through community based warrior transition units.
  - (2) Information on the location of the community based warrior transition unit located nearest to the permanent place of residence of the member.
- (b) **Covered Members.—** [Subsection (a)](#a) applies to members of a [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) [component](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13) who are injured while on [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) in the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title VI, § 641(a), Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2364.)