---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2568"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2568"
heading: "Retention of combat uniforms by members deployed in support of contingency operations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2568"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 152 — Issue of Supplies, Services, and Facilities"
---

# §2568. Retention of combat uniforms by members deployed in support of contingency operations


The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) may authorize a member of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) under the jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) who has been deployed in support of a [contingency operation](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-13) for at least 30 days to retain, after that member is no longer so deployed, the combat uniform issued to that member as organizational clothing and individual equipment.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title III, § 376(a), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 84.)