---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2149"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2149"
heading: "Applications for educational assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2149"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 106A — Educational Assistance for Persons Enlisting for Active Duty"
---

# §2149. Applications for educational assistance


To receive educational assistance benefits under this chapter, a [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) entitled to such assistance under section [2142](/usc/10/2142.md) or [2147](/usc/10/2147.md) of this title shall submit an application for such assistance to the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) in such form and manner as the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) may prescribe.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–342, title IX, § 901(a), Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1114.)