10 U.S.C. § 2120
Section 2120 · Definitions
Amended 5 times on record
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case Smith v. Er Christian (1985)
Most recently applied in 74 F. Supp. 2d 4 - Castle v. Caldera (November 1999)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
In this subchapter:
(1) The term “program” means the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance program provided for in this subchapter.
(2) The term “member of the program” means a person appointed a commissioned officer in a reserve component of the armed forces who is enrolled in the Armed Forces Health Professions Scholarship and Financial Assistance program.
(3) The term “course of study” means education received at an accredited college, university, or institution in medicine, dentistry, or other health profession, leading, respectively, to a degree related to the health professions as determined under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense.
(4) The term “specialized training” means advanced training in a health professions specialty received in an accredited program that is beyond the basic education required for appointment as a commissioned officer with a designation as a health professional.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Amendments
1989—Pars. (1), (2). Pub. L. 101–189, §725(h)(1), substituted “Scholarship and Financial Assistance program” for “Scholarship program”.
Par. (4). Pub. L. 101–189, §725(a), added par. (4).
1987—Pub. L. 100–180 substituted “subchapter” for “chapter” in introductory text and in par. (1).
Pub. L. 100–26 inserted “The term” after each par. designation and struck out uppercase letter of first word after first quotation marks in each par. and substituted lowercase letter.
1983—Pub. L. 98–94 substituted a colon for a dash after “In this chapter” in text preceding par. (1).