---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2185"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2185"
heading: "Programs to be consistent with programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2185"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 110 — Educational Assistance for Members Held as Captives and Their Dependents"
---

# §2185. Programs to be consistent with programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs


Regulations prescribed to carry out this chapter shall provide that the [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) under this chapter shall be consistent with the educational assistance [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) under chapters 35 and 36 of title 38.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–399, title VIII, § 806(d)(1), Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 888; amended Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title XVI, § 1621(a)(7)(A), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1603.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1989—Pub. L. 101–189 substituted “the Department of Veterans Affairs” for “the Veterans’ Administration” in section catchline.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable with respect to persons whose captive status begins after Jan. 21, 1981, see section 806(d)(3) of Pub. L. 99–399, set out as a note under 2181 of this title.