---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 518"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "518"
heading: "Temporary enlistments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/518"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 31 — Enlistments"
---

# §518. Temporary enlistments


Temporary enlistments may be made only in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, or Coast Guard, as the case may be, without specification of [component](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 90–235, § 2(a)(1)(B), Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 755; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 924(b)(2)(A)(iii), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3821.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283 substituted “Marine Corps, Space Force,” for “Marine Corps,”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets of the Coast Guard, including the authorities and functions of the Secretary of Transportation relating thereto, to the Department of Homeland Security, and for treatment of related references, see sections 468(b), 551(d), 552(d), and 557 of Title 6, Domestic Security, and the Department of Homeland Security Reorganization Plan of November 25, 2002, as modified, set out as a note under section 542 of Title 6.