---
kind: "unit"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
key: "stA/ptII/ch32"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 32"
heading: "Officer Strength and Distribution in Grade"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/stA-ptII-ch32"
sections_count: 9
---

# Chapter 32 — Officer Strength and Distribution in Grade

Title 10 — Armed Forces › Subtitle A — General Military Law › Part II — Personnel

## Sections

- [§521. Authority to prescribe total strengths of officers on active duty and officer strengths in various categories](/usc/10/521.md)
- [§522. Repealed.](/usc/10/522.md)
- [§523. Authorized strengths: commissioned officers on active duty in grades of major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel and Navy grades of lieutenant commander, commander, and captain](/usc/10/523.md)
- [§524. Renumbered § 12011](/usc/10/524.md)
- [§525. Distribution of commissioned officers on active duty in general officer and flag officer grades](/usc/10/525.md)
- [§526. Authorized strength: general officers and flag officers on active duty](/usc/10/526.md)
- [§526a. Renumbered § 526](/usc/10/526a.md)
- [§527. Authority to suspend sections 523, 525, and 526](/usc/10/527.md)
- [§528. Officers serving in certain intelligence positions: military status; application of distribution and strength limitations; pay and allowances](/usc/10/528.md)