---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 2390"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "2390"
heading: "Enlistment to serve against United States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/2390"
units:
  - "Part I — Crimes"
  - "Chapter 115 — Treason, Sedition, and Subversive Activities"
---

# §2390. Enlistment to serve against United States


[Whoever](/usc/18/921.md?p=a-1) enlists or is engaged within the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9) or in any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, with intent to serve in armed hostility against the [United States](/usc/18/229F.md?p=9), shall be fined under this title[^1] or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.


## Footnotes

[^1]: See 1994 Amendment note below.

## Source credit

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 812; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(B), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 8 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 8, 35 Stat. 1089).

Mandatory punishment provision was rephrased in the alternative.

Minor changes were made in phraseology.

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322, which directed the amendment of this section by striking “fined not more than $100” and inserting “fined under this title”, was executed by substituting “fined under this title” for “fined $100”, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.