---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 908"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "908"
heading: "Art. 108. Military property of United States—Loss, damage, destruction, or wrongful disposition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/908"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 47 — Uniform Code of Military Justice"
  - "Subchapter X — Punitive Articles"
---

# §908. Art. 108. Military property of United States—Loss, damage, destruction, or wrongful disposition


Any [person](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) subject to this chapter who, without proper authority—

- (1) sells or otherwise disposes of;
- (2) willfully or through neglect damages, destroys, or loses; or
- (3) willfully or through neglect suffers to be lost, damaged, destroyed, sold, or wrongfully disposed of;

any [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) property of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1), shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 71.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 908 | 50:702. | May 5, 1950, ch. 169, § 1 (Art. 108), 64 Stat. 138. |