---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2181"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2181"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2181"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 110 — Educational Assistance for Members Held as Captives and Their Dependents"
---

# §2181. Definitions


In this chapter:

- (1) The terms “captive status” and “former captive” have the meanings given those terms in [section 559 of title 37](/usc/37/559.md).
- (2) The term “[dependent](/usc/10/1072.md?p=2)” has the meaning given that term in section 551 of that title.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–399, title VIII, § 806(d)(1), Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 887, and Pub. L. 100–26, § 7(k)(6), Apr. 21, 1987, 101 Stat. 284.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1987—Pub. L. 100–26, substituted “The terms ‘captive’ ” for “ ‘Captive’ ” in par. (1) and “The term ‘dependent’ ” for “ ‘Dependent’ ” in par. (2).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 99–399, title VIII, § 806(d)(3), Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 888, provided that: “Chapter 110 of title 10, United States Code, as added by paragraph (1), shall apply with respect to persons whose captive status begins after January 21, 1981.”