---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 666"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "666"
heading: "Reserve officers not on the active-duty list"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/666"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 38 — Joint Officer Management"
---

# §666. Reserve officers not on the active-duty list


The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall establish personnel policies emphasizing education and experience in [joint matters](/usc/10/668.md?p=a-1) for [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) not on the [active-duty list](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-13). Such policies shall, to the extent practicable for the [reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) [components](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13), be similar to the policies provided by this chapter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–433, title IV, § 401(a), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 1028.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transition to Joint Officer Personnel Policy

Personnel policies under this section to be established not later than the end of the eight-month period beginning Oct. 1, 1986, see section 406(c) of Pub. L. 99–433, set out as a note under section 661 of this title.