---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 20302"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "20302"
heading: "Enlisted members: term of enlistment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/20302"
units:
  - "Subtitle F — Alternative Military Personnel Systems"
  - "Part I — Space Force"
  - "Chapter 2007 — Enlisted Members"
---

# §20302. Enlisted members: term of enlistment

- (a) **Term of Original Enlistments.—** The Secretary of the Air Force may accept [original](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-10) enlistments of persons for the duration of their minority or for a period of at least two but not more than eight years in the Space Force.
- (b) **Term of Reenlistments.—** The Secretary of the Air Force may accept a reenlistment in the Space Force for a period determined in accordance with paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of [section 505(d) of this title](/usc/10/505.md?p=d).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title XVII, § 1717(a), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 654.)