---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 954"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "954"
heading: "Voluntary extension; probation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/954"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 48 — Military Correctional Facilities"
---

# §954. Voluntary extension; probation


The [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/2801.md?p=c-5) may provide for [persons](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) who were subject to his authority at the time of commission of their offenses a system for retention of selected offenders beyond expiration of normal service obligation in order to voluntarily serve a period of probation with a view to honorable restoration to duty.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 90–377, § 1, July 5, 1968, 82 Stat. 288; amended Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title X, § 1073(a)(12), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1900.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1997—Pub. L. 105–85 substituted “his authority” for “this authority”.