Except as otherwise provided in regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, a Reserve sentenced by a court-martial to a period of confinement for more than six months may be separated from that Reserve’s armed force at any time after the sentence to confinement has become final under chapter 47 of this title and the Reserve has served in confinement for a period of six months.
(Added Pub. L. 104–106, div. A, title V, § 563(a)(2)(A), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 325.)