---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 715"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "715"
heading: "Attending Physician to the Congress: grade"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/715"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 41 — Special Appointments, Assignments, Details, and Duties"
---

# §715. Attending Physician to the Congress: grade


A [general officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-4) serving as Attending Physician to the Congress, while so serving, holds the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of major general. A [flag officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-5) serving as Attending Physician to the Congress, while so serving, holds the [grade](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-7) of rear admiral (upper half).


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title V, § 508(a), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1749.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 715, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 33, related to detail of members of regular and reserve components to assist those components prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, §§ 1662(g)(2), 1691, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2996, 3026, effective Dec. 1, 1994. See section 12501 of this title.