---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 12687"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "12687"
heading: "Reserves under confinement by sentence of court-martial: separation after six months confinement"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/12687"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part II — Personnel Generally"
  - "Chapter 1221 — Separation"
---

# §12687. Reserves under confinement by sentence of court-martial: separation after six months confinement


Except as otherwise provided in regulations prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/10/12521.md?p=4) of Defense, a [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) sentenced by a court-martial to a period of confinement for more than six months may be separated from that [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6)’s armed force at any time after the sentence to confinement has become final under [chapter 47](/usc/10/chstA/ptII/ch47.md) of this title and the [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) has served in confinement for a period of six months.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title V, § 563(a)(2)(A), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 325.)