---
kind: "unit"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
key: "stA/ptI/ch3"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 3"
heading: "General Powers and Functions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/stA-ptI-ch3"
sections_count: 35
---

# Chapter 3 — General Powers and Functions

Title 10 — Armed Forces › Subtitle A — General Military Law › Part I — Organization and General Military Powers

## Sections

- [§121. Regulations](/usc/10/121.md)
- [§122. Official registers](/usc/10/122.md)
- [§122a. Public availability of Department of Defense reports required by law](/usc/10/122a.md)
- [§123. Authority to suspend officer personnel laws during war or national emergency](/usc/10/123.md)
- [§123a. Suspension of end-strength and other strength limitations in time of war or national emergency](/usc/10/123a.md)
- [§123b. Forces stationed abroad: limitation on number](/usc/10/123b.md)
- [§124. Detection and monitoring of aerial and maritime transit of illegal drugs: Department of Defense to be lead agency](/usc/10/124.md)
- [§125. Functions, powers, and duties: transfer, reassignment, consolidation, or abolition](/usc/10/125.md)
- [§125a. Reform: improvement of efficacy and efficiency](/usc/10/125a.md)
- [§126. Transfer of funds and employees](/usc/10/126.md)
- [§127. Emergency and extraordinary expenses](/usc/10/127.md)
- [§127a. Operations for which funds are not provided in advance: funding mechanisms](/usc/10/127a.md)
- [§127b. Department of Defense rewards program](/usc/10/127b.md)
- [§127c. Purchase of weapons overseas: force protection](/usc/10/127c.md)
- [§127d. Support of special operations for irregular warfare](/usc/10/127d.md)
- [§127e. Support of special operations to combat terrorism](/usc/10/127e.md)
- [§127f. Expenditure of funds for clandestine activities that support operational preparation of the environment and non-conventional assisted recovery capabilities](/usc/10/127f.md)
- [§128. Control and physical protection of special nuclear material: limitation on dissemination of unclassified information](/usc/10/128.md)
- [§129. Civilian personnel management](/usc/10/129.md)
- [§129a. General policy for total force management](/usc/10/129a.md)
- [§129b. Authority to procure personal services](/usc/10/129b.md)
- [§129c. Medical personnel: limitations on reductions](/usc/10/129c.md)
- [§129d. Disclosure to litigation support contractors](/usc/10/129d.md)
- [§130. Authority to withhold from public disclosure certain technical data](/usc/10/130.md)
- [§130a. Department of Defense support for funerals and memorial events for Members and former Members of Congress](/usc/10/130a.md)
- [§130b. Personnel in overseas, sensitive, or routinely deployable units: nondisclosure of personally identifying information](/usc/10/130b.md)
- [§130c. Nondisclosure of information: certain sensitive information of foreign governments and international organizations](/usc/10/130c.md)
- [§130d. Treatment under Freedom of Information Act of certain confidential information shared with State and local personnel](/usc/10/130d.md)
- [§130e. Treatment under Freedom of Information Act of certain critical infrastructure security information](/usc/10/130e.md)
- [§130f. Notification requirements for sensitive military operations](/usc/10/130f.md)
- [§130g. Oversight of sensitive activities of the Department of Defense.](/usc/10/130g.md)
- [§130g. Notification requirements for waivers issued under Department of Defense guidance related to autonomy in weapon systems](/usc/10/130g.md)
- [§130h. Repealed.](/usc/10/130h.md)
- [§130i. Protection of certain facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft](/usc/10/130i.md)
- [§130k. Renumbered §§ 395, 396](/usc/10/130k.md)