---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2124"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2124"
heading: "Members of the program: numbers appointed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2124"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 105 — Armed Forces Health Professions Financial Assistance Programs"
  - "Subchapter I — Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance Program for Active Service"
---

# §2124. Members of the program: numbers appointed

- (a) **Authorized Number of Members of the Program.—** The number of [persons](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) who may be designated as members of the [program](/usc/10/2120.md?p=1) for [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) in each health profession shall be as prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense, except that the total number of [persons](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) so designated may not, at any time, exceed 6,300.
- (b) **Mental Health Professionals.—** Of the number of [persons](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) designated as members of the [program](/usc/10/2120.md?p=1) at any time, 300 may be members of the [program](/usc/10/2120.md?p=1) described in [section 2121(a)(1)(B) of this title](/usc/10/2121.md).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 92–426, § 2(a), Sept. 21, 1972, 86 Stat. 718; amended Pub. L. 99–145, title VI, § 672(i), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 664; Pub. L. 100–180, div. A, title VII, §§ 711(a)(2), 712(b)(1), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1108, 1112; Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title VII, § 725(g), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1480; Pub. L. 102–190, div. A, title VII, § 717, Dec. 5, 1991, 105 Stat. 1404; Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title V, § 524(b), Oct. 28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2285.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2009—Pub. L. 111–84 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), inserted heading, substituted “6,300” for “6,000”, and added subsec. (b).

1991—Pub. L. 102–190 substituted “except that the total number of persons so designated may not, at any time, exceed 6,000.” for “except that—

“(1) the total number of persons so designated in all of the programs authorized by this subchapter shall not, at any time, exceed 6,000; and

“(2) after September 30, 1991, of the total number of persons so designated, at least 2,500 shall be persons—

“(A) who are in the final two years of their course of study; and

“(B) who have agreed to accept, if offered, residency training in a health profession skill which has been designated by the Secretary as a critically needed wartime skill.”

1989—Par. (2). Pub. L. 101–189 inserted “after September 30, 1991,” after “(2)”.

1987—Pub. L. 100–180, § 712(b)(1), substituted “except that—” and pars. (1) and (2) for “except that the total number of persons so designated in all of the programs authorized by this subchapter shall not, at any time, exceed 6,000.”

Pub. L. 100–180, § 711(a)(2), substituted “subchapter” for “chapter”.

1985—Pub. L. 99–145 substituted “6,000” for “5,000”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1987 Amendment

Pub. L. 100–180, div. A, title VII, § 712(b)(2), Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 1112, provided that: “The amendment made by paragraph (1) [amending this section] shall take effect on October 1, 1989.”

### Effective Date of 1985 Amendment

Pub. L. 99–145, title VI, § 672(j), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 664, which provided that amendment made by that section was to take effect on Oct. 1, 1985, was repealed by Pub. L. 100–180, § 711(c)(1), (e)(1), eff. Dec. 4, 1987.

### Repeals

The directory language of, but not the amendment made by, Pub. L. 99–145, title VI, § 672(i), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 664, cited as a credit to this section, was repealed by Pub. L. 100–180, § 711(c)(1), (e)(1), eff. Dec. 4, 1987.