10 USC § 8690 - Limitation on length of overseas forward deployment of naval vessels

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title: "10 USC § 8690 - Limitation on length of overseas forward deployment of naval vessels"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "8690"
section_name: "Limitation on length of overseas forward deployment of naval vessels"
chapter_number: 863
chapter_name: "NAVAL VESSELS"
part_number: "IV"
part_name: "GENERAL ADMINISTRATION"
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last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Added § 7320 and renumbered § 8690, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title III, § 323(a)(1), title VIII, § 807(d)(2), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1719, 1836.)"
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# § 8690. Limitation on length of overseas forward deployment of naval vessels

**(a)** **Limitation.—** The Secretary of the Navy shall ensure that no naval vessel specified in subsection (b) that is listed in the Naval Vessel Register is forward deployed overseas for a period in excess of ten years. At the end of a period of overseas forward deployment, the vessel shall be assigned a homeport in the United States.

**(b)** **Vessels Specified.—** A naval vessel specified in this subsection is any of the following:

**(1)** Aircraft carrier.

**(2)** Amphibious ship.

**(3)** Cruiser.

**(4)** Destroyer.

**(5)** Frigate.

**(6)** Littoral Combat Ship.

**(c)** **Waiver.—** The Secretary of the Navy may waive the limitation under subsection (a) with respect to a naval vessel if the Secretary submits to the congressional defense committees notice in writing of—

**(1)** the waiver of such limitation with respect to the vessel;

**(2)** the date on which the period of overseas forward deployment of the vessel is expected to end; and

**(3)** the factors used by the Secretary to determine that a longer period of deployment would promote the national defense or be in the public interest.

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**Source Credit**: (Added § 7320 and renumbered § 8690, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title III, § 323(a)(1), title VIII, § 807(d)(2), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1719, 1836.)

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 8690, , , exempted enlisted members of Air Force, while on active duty, from arrest for any debt, unless it was contracted before enlistment and amounted to at least $20 when first contracted, prior to repeal by , , .

### Amendments

2018—, renumbered  as this section.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see , set out as a note preceding .

### Treatment of Currently Deployed Vessels; Extension of Limitation for U.S.S. Shiloh

> **“(b)** **Treatment of Currently Deployed Vessels.—** In the case of any aircraft carrier, amphibious ship, cruiser, destroyer, frigate, or littoral combat ship that has been forward deployed overseas for a period in excess of ten years as of the date of the enactment of this Act [Aug. 13, 2018], the Secretary of the Navy shall ensure that such vessel is assigned a homeport in the United States by not later than three years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
> 
> **“(c)** **Extension of Limitation on Length of Overseas Forward Deployment for U.S.S. Shiloh (CG–67).—** Notwithstanding subsection (b), the Secretary of the Navy shall ensure that the U.S.S. Shiloh (CG–67) is assigned a homeport in the United States by not later than September 30, 2023.”

, (c), , , as amended by , , ; , , , provided that: