---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 20003"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "20003"
heading: "Members: minimum service requirement as applied to Space Force"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/20003"
units:
  - "Subtitle F — Alternative Military Personnel Systems"
  - "Part I — Space Force"
  - "Chapter 2001 — Space Force Personnel System"
---

# §20003. Members: minimum service requirement as applied to Space Force

- (a) **Inapplicability of Active/reserve Service Distinction.—** In applying [section 651 of this title](/usc/10/651.md) to a person who becomes a member of the Space Force, the provisions of the second sentence of subsection (a) and of subsection (b) of that section (relating to service in a [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) component) are inapplicable.
- (b) **Treatment Upon Transfer Out of Space Force.—** A member of the Space Force who transfers to one of the other [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) before completing the service required by subsection (a) of [section 651 of this title](/usc/10/651.md) shall upon such transfer be subject to [section 651 of this title](/usc/10/651.md) in the same manner as if such member had initially entered the armed force to which the member transfers.

## Source credit

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