10 U.S.C. § 501
Section 501 · Definition
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches v. England (2006)
Most recently applied in Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches v. England (March 2006)
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 chapter “enlistment” means original enlistment or reenlistment.
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Prior Provisions
A prior section 501 was renumbered 502 of this title.