---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 895a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "895a"
heading: "Art. 95a. Disrespect toward sentinel or lookout"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/895a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §895a. Art. 95a. Disrespect toward sentinel or lookout

- (a) **Disrespectful Language Toward Sentinel or Lookout.—** Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who, knowing that another [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) is a sentinel or lookout, uses wrongful and disrespectful language that is directed toward and within the hearing of the sentinel or lookout, who is in the execution of duties as a sentinel or lookout, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
- (b) **Disrespectful Behavior Toward Sentinel or Lookout.—** Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who, knowing that another [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) is a sentinel or lookout, behaves in a wrongful and disrespectful manner that is directed toward and within the sight of the sentinel or lookout, who is in the execution of duties as a sentinel or lookout, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–328, div. E, title LX, § 5412, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2943.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective on Jan. 1, 2019, as designated by the President, with implementing regulations and provisions relating to applicability to various situations, see section 5542 of Pub. L. 114–328 and Ex. Ord. No. 13825, set out as notes under section 801 of this title.