---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 654"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "654"
heading: "Minimum service requirement for certain cyberspace occupational specialties"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/654"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 37 — General Service Requirements"
---

# §654. Minimum service requirement for certain cyberspace occupational specialties

- (a) **Cyberspace Operations Officer.—** The minimum service obligation for any member who successfully completes [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) in the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) in direct accession to the cyberspace operations [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) occupational specialty of the Marine Corps shall be eight years.
- (b) **Service Obligation Defined.—** In this section, the term “service obligation” means the period of [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) or, in the case of a member of a [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) [component](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13) who completed cyberspace operations [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) in an [active duty](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-1) for [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) status as a member of a [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) [component](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13), the period of service in an [active status](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-4) in the Selected [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6), required to be served after completion of cyberspace operations [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 118–31, div. A, title V, § 509(b), Dec. 22, 2023, 137 Stat. 243.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 654, added Pub. L. 103–160, div. A, title V, § 571(a)(1), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1670, related to policy concerning homosexuality in the armed forces, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 111–321, § 2(f)(1)(A), Dec. 22, 2010, 124 Stat. 3516.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal

Pub. L. 111–321, Dec. 22, 2010, 124 Stat. 3515, repealed former section 654 of this title effective 60 days after the later of the Secretary of Defense receiving a report, which was released Nov. 30, 2010, and the President transmitting to the congressional defense committees a written certification, which was transmitted July 22, 2011.