---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 656"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "656"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title IX, § 901(c), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1007"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/656"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 37 — General Service Requirements"
---

# [§656. Repealed. Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title IX, § 901(c), Dec. 18, 2025, 139 Stat. 1007 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, added Pub. L. 112–239, div. A, title V, § 519(a)(1), Jan. 2, 2013, 126 Stat. 1720; amended Pub. L. 116–283, div. A, title V, § 571(a)(1)–(3)(A), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 3642, 3643, related to diversity in military leadership.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Strategic Plan for Diversity and Inclusion

Pub. L. 116–92, div. A, title V, § 529, Dec. 20, 2019, 133 Stat. 1358, required Secretary of Defense to design and implement five-year strategic plan for diversity and inclusion in Department of Defense, with implementation to begin not later than one year after Dec. 20, 2019.