---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2520"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2520"
heading: "Military training and service exemption"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2520"
units:
  - "Chapter 34 — The Peace Corps"
---

# §2520. Military training and service exemption


Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law or regulation, service in the Peace Corps as a volunteer shall not in any way exempt such volunteer from the performance of any obligations or duties under the provisions of the Universal Military Training and Service Act [[50 U.S.C. 3801](/usc/50/3801.md) et seq.].


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–293, title I, § 23, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 624.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Universal Military Training and Service Act, referred to in text, subsequently renamed the Military Selective Service Act, is act June 24, 1948, ch. 625, 62 Stat. 604, which is classified principally to chapter 49 (§ 3801 et seq.) of Title 50, War and National Defense. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.