{"data":{"id":"us/10-u.s.c.-12684","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"10 U.S.C. § 12684","heading":"Reserves: separation for absence without authority or sentence to imprisonment","body":"The President or the Secretary concerned may drop from the rolls of the armed force concerned any Reserve—(1) who has been absent without authority for at least three months; (2) who may be separated under section 12687 of this title by reason of a sentence to confinement adjudged by a court-martial; or (3) who is sentenced to confinement in a Federal or State penitentiary or correctional institution after having been found guilty of an offense by a court other than a court-martial or other military court, and whose sentence has become final.","path":["Title 10—ARMED FORCES","CHAPTER 1221—SEPARATION"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc10@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:56:10Z","sha256":"313b1f1f6b98cdc724f86f966d73a105ac91d20d77465452d35df535a2daa0fb","source_id":"us","stale":true,"prev":"us/10-u.s.c.-12683","next":"us/10-u.s.c.-12685"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}