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Army Act. An Act to consolidate the Army Discipline and Regulation Act, 1879, and the subsequent Acts amending the Same. Until 1689, mutiny was regulated in England by Articles of War instituted by the monarch and effective only in a period of war. This abuse of the crown's prerogative (the crown's right to make and enforce rules for the ...
The Command of Army Act is a law that was in effect under the 1867–1868 appropriations act for the United States Army. The appropriations act under which the law was in place had been passed by the United States Congress on March 2, 1867, and signed by President Andrew Johnson on March 4, 1867. It was one of several pieces of legislation that ...
An Act to make provision with respect to the armed forces; and for connected purposes. The Armed Forces Act 2006 (c. 52) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom . It came into force on 31 October 2009. It replaces the three separate Service Discipline Acts (the Army Act 1955 ( 3 & 4 Eliz. 2. c. 18), the Air Force Act 1955 ( 3 & 4 Eliz.
The Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act ( Pub. L. 65–12, 40 Stat. 76, enacted May 18, 1917) authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. It was envisioned in December 1916 and brought to President Woodrow Wilson 's attention shortly after the break ...
The Defense Officer Personnel Management Act (DOPMA) ( Pub. L. 96–513) is a United States federal law passed in 1980 that for the first-time standardized officer personnel management across the United States Armed Forces. It established ceilings on the number of field grade officers authorized to each service, created uniform regulations ...
The Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement (ACSA) statute (formerly known as "NATO Mutual Support Act") was enacted to simplify exchanges of logistic support, supplies, and services between the United States and other NATO forces. It was subsequently amended in 1987, [4] to permit ACSAs with the governments of eligible non-NATO countries ...
The PACT Act is the biggest expansion of VA healthcare and benefits in decades. In 2022, this federal legislation expanded VA healthcare and benefits to millions of Veterans exposed to toxins ...
The National Defense Authorization Act ( NDAA) is any of a series of United States federal laws specifying the annual budget and expenditures of the U.S. Department of Defense. The first NDAA was passed in 1961. [1] [2] The U.S. Congress oversees the defense budget primarily through two yearly bills: the National Defense Authorization Act and ...