---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 102"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "102"
heading: "Military departments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/102"
units:
  - "Part I — The Agencies Generally"
  - "Chapter 1 — Organization"
---

# §102. Military departments


The military departments are:

The Department of the Army.

The Department of the Navy.

The Department of the Air Force.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.)

## Notes

### Historical and Revision Notes

The section is supplied to avoid the necessity for defining “military departments” each time it is used in this title. See section 101(7) of title 10.