{"identifier":"/us/usc/t10/s2568a","title":10,"num":"\u00a7\u202f2568a.","heading":"Damaged personal protective equipment: award to members separating from the Armed Forces and veterans","text":"\u00a7\u202f2568a.\nDamaged personal protective equipment: award to members separating from the Armed Forces and veterans\n(a)\nIn General.\u2014\nThe 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.\n(b)\nDefinitions.\u2014\nIn this section:\n(1) The term \u201ccovered individual\u201d means\u2014\n(A) a member of the armed forces\u2014\n(i) under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned; and\n(ii) who is separating from the armed forces; or\n(B) a veteran who was under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned while a member of the armed forces.\n(2) The term \u201cPPE\u201d means personal protective equipment that was damaged in combat or otherwise\u2014\n(A) during the deployment of a covered individual; and\n(B) after\nSeptember 11, 2001","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t10/s2568a.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2568a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f2568a."},{"t":"heading","text":"Damaged personal protective equipment: award to members separating from the Armed Forces and veterans"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2568a/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"In General.\u2014"},{"t":"content","text":"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.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2568a/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Definitions.\u2014"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"In this section:"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2568a/b/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" The term \u201ccovered individual\u201d means\u2014"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2568a/b/1/A","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(A)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" a member of the armed forces\u2014"},{"t":"clause","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2568a/b/1/A/i","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(i)"},{"t":"content","text":" under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"clause","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2568a/b/1/A/ii","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(ii)"},{"t":"content","text":" who is separating from the armed forces; or","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2568a/b/1/B","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(B)"},{"t":"content","text":" a veteran who was under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned while a member of the armed forces.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2568a/b/2","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(2)"},{"t":"chapeau","text":" The term \u201cPPE\u201d means personal protective equipment that was damaged in combat or otherwise\u2014"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2568a/b/2/A","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(A)"},{"t":"content","text":" during the deployment of a covered individual; and","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subpara","id":"/us/usc/t10/s2568a/b/2/B","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(B)"},{"t":"content","text":" after ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"September 11, 2001","tail":"."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}