---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 20002"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "20002"
heading: "Members: duty status"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/20002"
units:
  - "Subtitle F — Alternative Military Personnel Systems"
  - "Part I — Space Force"
  - "Chapter 2001 — Space Force Personnel System"
---

# §20002. Members: duty status


Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force, each member of the Space Force shall be placed in one of the following duty statuses:

- (1) [Space Force active status](/usc/10/101.md?p=e-1).
- (2) [Space Force inactive status](/usc/10/101.md?p=e-2).
- (3) [Space Force retired status](/usc/10/101.md?p=e-3).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title XVII, § 1714, Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 626.)