---
kind: "unit"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
key: "ch11"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 11"
heading: "Compensation for Disability or Death to Persons Employed at Military, Air, and Naval Bases Outside United States"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/ch11"
sections_count: 5
---

# Chapter 11 — Compensation for Disability or Death to Persons Employed at Military, Air, and Naval Bases Outside United States

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

## Sections

- [§1651. Compensation authorized](/usc/42/1651.md)
- [§1652. Computation of benefits; application to aliens and nonnationals](/usc/42/1652.md)
- [§1653. Compensation districts; judicial proceedings](/usc/42/1653.md)
- [§1654. Persons excluded from benefits](/usc/42/1654.md)
- [§1655. Requirement for Department of Defense to adopt an acquisition strategy for Defense Base Act insurance](/usc/42/1655.md)