---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 646"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "646"
heading: "Consideration of performance as a member of the Joint Staff"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/646"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 36 — Promotion, Separation, and Involuntary Retirement of Officers on the Active-Duty List"
  - "Subchapter V — Additional Provisions Relating to Promotion, Separation, and Retirement"
---

# §646. Consideration of performance as a member of the Joint Staff


The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense, in consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall ensure that [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) personnel policies of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force concerning promotion, retention, and assignment give appropriate consideration to the performance of an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) as a member of the Joint Staff.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 98–525, title XIII, § 1301(d)(1), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2612; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title IX, § 924(b)(1)(C), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3820.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

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