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Code · BILL · 118th Congress · S. 2226 (Engrossed in Senate) — To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense for military co... · Sec. 1817

Sec. 1817. Enlisted members

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Subtitle F of title 10, United States Code, as amended by section 1716, is further amended by adding at the end the following new chapter: Sec. 20301. Original enlistments: qualifications; grade. 20302. Enlisted members: term of enlistment. 20303. Reference to chapter 31. The Secretary of the Air Force may accept original enlistments in the Space Force of qualified, effective, and able-bodied persons. A person accepted for original enlistment shall be not less than seventeen years of age.
However, no person under eighteen years of age may be originally enlisted without the written consent of the person’s parent or guardian, if the person has a parent or guardian entitled to the person’s custody and control. A person is enlisted in the Space Force in the grade prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force. The Secretary of the Air Force may accept original enlistments of persons for the duration of their minority or for a period of at least two but not more than eight years in the Space Force.
The Secretary of the Air Force may accept a reenlistment in the Space Force for a period determined in accordance with paragraphs (2), (3), and
(4)of section 505(d) of this title. For other provisions of this title applicable to enlistments in the Space Force, see chapter 31 of this title. . Chapter 31 of such title is amended as follows: Section 503(a) is amended by striking and Regular Coast Guard and inserting Regular Coast Guard, and the Space Force . Section 505 is amended— by striking Regular Space Force, each place it appears; and by adding at the end the following new subsection: For enlistments in the Space Force, see sections 20301 and 20302 of this title. . Section 506 is amended by striking Regular before Space Force . Section 508 is amended striking Regular before Space Force both places it appears. Section 510(c) is amended— in paragraph (2), by inserting or the Space Force after Selected Reserve ; and in paragraph (3)— by redesignating subparagraphs
(D)and
(E)as subparagraphs
(E)and (F), respectively; by inserting after subparagraph
(C)the following new subparagraph (D): in the Space Force; ; and in subparagraph (F), as so redesignated, by striking subparagraphs
(A)through
(D)and inserting subparagraphs
(A)through
(E). Section 511(b)(1)(A) is amended by inserting or as a member of the Space Force, after reserve component, . Section 513(a) is amended— by inserting, , or who is qualified under section 20301 of this title and applicable regulations for enlistment in the Space Force, after armed force ; and by inserting , or be enlisted as a member of the Space Force, after Coast Guard Reserve . Section 516(b) is amended by inserting or in the Space Force, after armed force .
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