10 USC § 2568a - Damaged personal protective equipment: award to members separating from the Armed Forces and veterans

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title: "10 USC § 2568a - Damaged personal protective equipment: award to members separating from the Armed Forces and veterans"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "2568a"
section_name: "Damaged personal protective equipment: award to members separating from the Armed Forces and veterans"
chapter_number: 152
chapter_name: "ISSUE OF SUPPLIES, SERVICES, AND FACILITIES"
part_number: "IV"
part_name: "SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VI, § 623(a), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1800.)"
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# § 2568a. Damaged personal protective equipment: award to members separating from the Armed Forces and veterans

**(a)** **In General.—** The Secretary of a military department, acting through a disposition service distribution center of the Defense Logistics Agency, may award to a covered individual the demilitarized PPE of that covered individual. The award of PPE under this section shall be without cost to the covered individual.

**(b)** **Definitions.—** In this section:

**(1)** The term “covered individual” means—

**(A)** a member of the armed forces—

**(i)** under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned; and

**(ii)** who is separating from the armed forces; or

**(B)** a veteran who was under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned while a member of the armed forces.

**(2)** The term “PPE” means personal protective equipment that was damaged in combat or otherwise—

**(A)** during the deployment of a covered individual; and

**(B)** after September 11, 2001.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VI, § 623(a), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1800.)