---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2257"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2257"
heading: "Use of recruiting materials for public relations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2257"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 134 — Miscellaneous Administrative Provisions"
  - "Subchapter II — Miscellaneous Administrative Authority"
---

# §2257. Use of recruiting materials for public relations


The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may use for public relations purposes of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense any advertising materials developed for use for recruitment and retention of personnel for the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4). Any such use shall be under such conditions and subject to such restrictions as the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall prescribe.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title V, § 574(a), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 624.)