---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 906a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "906a"
heading: "Art. 106a. Wearing unauthorized insignia, decoration, badge, ribbon, device, or lapel button"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/906a"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §906a. Art. 106a. Wearing unauthorized insignia, decoration, badge, ribbon, device, or lapel button


Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter—

- (1) who is not authorized to wear an insignia, decoration, badge, ribbon, device, or lapel button; and
- (2) who wrongfully wears such insignia, decoration, badge, ribbon, device, or lapel button upon the [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2)’s uniform or civilian clothing;

shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–328, div. E, title LX, § 5418, Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2945.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 906a was renumbered section 903a of this title.

### 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.