---
kind: "unit"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
key: "stA/ptII/ch59"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 59"
heading: "Separation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/stA-ptII-ch59"
sections_count: 19
---

# Chapter 59 — Separation

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

## Sections

- [§1161. Commissioned officers: limitations on dismissal](/usc/10/1161.md)
- [§1163. Repealed.](/usc/10/1163.md)
- [§1164. Warrant officers: separation for age](/usc/10/1164.md)
- [§1165. Regular warrant officers: separation during three-year probationary period](/usc/10/1165.md)
- [§1166. Regular warrant officers: elimination for unfitness or unsatisfactory performance](/usc/10/1166.md)
- [§1167. Members under confinement by sentence of court-martial: separation after six months confinement](/usc/10/1167.md)
- [§1168. Discharge or release from active duty: limitations](/usc/10/1168.md)
- [§1169. Regular enlisted members: limitations on discharge](/usc/10/1169.md)
- [§1170. Regular enlisted members: minority discharge](/usc/10/1170.md)
- [§1171. Regular enlisted members: early discharge](/usc/10/1171.md)
- [§1172. Enlisted members: during war or emergency; discharge](/usc/10/1172.md)
- [§1173. Enlisted members: discharge for hardship](/usc/10/1173.md)
- [§1174. Separation pay upon involuntary discharge or release from active duty](/usc/10/1174.md)
- [§1174a. Special separation benefits programs](/usc/10/1174a.md)
- [§1175. Voluntary separation incentive](/usc/10/1175.md)
- [§1175a. Voluntary separation pay and benefits](/usc/10/1175a.md)
- [§1176. Enlisted members: retention after completion of 18 or more, but less than 20, years of service](/usc/10/1176.md)
- [§1177. Members diagnosed with or reasonably asserting post-traumatic stress disorder or traumatic brain injury: medical examination required before administrative separation](/usc/10/1177.md)
- [§1178. System and procedures for tracking separations resulting from refusal to participate in anthrax vaccine immunization program](/usc/10/1178.md)