---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 671a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "671a"
heading: "Members: service extension during war"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/671a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 39 — Active Duty"
---

# §671a. Members: service extension during war


Unless terminated at an earlier date by the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5), the period of [active service](/usc/10/101.md?p=d-3) of any member of an armed force is extended for the duration of any war in which the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) may be engaged and for six months thereafter.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 90–235, § 1(a)(1)(A), Jan. 2, 1968, 81 Stat. 753.)