---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 8460"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "8460"
heading: "Midshipmen: clothing and equipment; uniform allowance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/8460"
units:
  - "Subtitle C — Navy and Marine Corps"
  - "Part III — Education and Training"
  - "Chapter 853 — United States Naval Academy"
---

# §8460. Midshipmen: clothing and equipment; uniform allowance


The [Secretary](/usc/10/8720.md?p=4) of the [Navy](/usc/10/8001.md?p=a-1) may prescribe the amount to be credited to a midshipman, upon [original](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-10) admission to the Naval Academy, for the cost of his initial issue of clothing and equipment. That amount shall be deducted from his [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15). If a midshipman is discharged before graduation while owing the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) for [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) advanced for the purchase of required clothing and equipment, he shall turn in as much of his clothing and equipment of a distinctively military nature as is necessary to repay the amount advanced. If the value of the clothing and equipment turned in does not cover the amount owed, the indebtedness shall be canceled.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 432, § 6960; renumbered § 8460, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(c)(1), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1836.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 6960 | 34 U.S.C. 1052a. | Aug. 22, 1951, ch. 340, § 1, 65 Stat. 196. |

The word “new” before “midshipmen” and the word “subsequently” after “deducted” are omitted as surplusage. The words “while owing the United States for pay advanced for the purchase of” are substituted for the words “who is indebted to the United States on account of advances of pay to purchase”.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 6960 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.