---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 501"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "501"
heading: "Definition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/501"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 31 — Enlistments"
---

# §501. Definition


In this chapter “enlistment” means [original](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-10) enlistment or reenlistment.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 90–235, § 2(a)(1)(B), Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 753.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Another section 501 was renumbered section 500a of this title.

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 501 was renumbered 502 of this title.