---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2568a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2568a"
heading: "Damaged personal protective equipment: award to members separating from the Armed Forces and veterans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2568a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 152 — Issue of Supplies, Services, and Facilities"
---

# §2568a. Damaged personal protective equipment: award to members separating from the Armed Forces and veterans

- (a) **In General.—** 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), acting through a disposition service distribution center of the Defense Logistics [Agency](/usc/10/3451.md?p=3), may award to a covered individual the demilitarized PPE of that covered individual. The award of PPE under this section shall be without cost to the covered individual.
- (b) **Definitions.—** In this section:
  - (1) The term “covered individual” means—
    - (A) a member of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4)—
      - (i) under the jurisdiction of the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5); and
      - (ii) who is separating from the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4); or
    - (B) a veteran who was under the jurisdiction of the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) while a member of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4).
  - (2) The term “PPE” means personal protective equipment that was damaged in combat or otherwise—
    - (A) during the deployment of a covered individual; and
    - (B) after September 11, 2001.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VI, § 623(a), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1800.)