Chapter 47 (§ § 801-940) of Title 10, United States Code Method of citing articles of the Uniform Code of Military Justice: "Article 5, Uniform Code of Military Justice (Title 10, United States Code, § 805)" or abbreviated where appropriate "Article 5 UCMJ (10 USC 805)" or "UCMJ Art. 5". Section 1 of the Act of 5 May 1950 (Public Law 506, 81st Congress) established the Uniform Code of Military Justice "for the government of the armed forces of the United States, unifying, consolidating, revising, and codifying the Articles of War, the Articles for the Government of the Navy, and the disciplinary laws of the Coast Guard." Section 1 of the Act of 10 August 1956 (Public Law 1028, 84th Congress) revised, codified and enacted into law Title 10 of the United States Code. Chapter 47 of revised Title 10 ("Armed Forces") contains a new text of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. This new text, reproduced below, takes effect on 1 January 1957 and supersedes the earlier text. Various statutory amendments are inserted in the following text and indicated by appropriate statutory citations at the end of the article or division affected. 1 These definitions are in addition to definitions contained in 10 USC 101 which reads as follows: § 101. Definitions In addition to the definitions in sections 1-5 of title 1, the following definitions apply in this title: (1) "United States", in a geographic sense, means the States and the District of Columbia. (2) "Territory" means any Territory organized after this title is enacted, so long as it remains a Territory. (3) "Possessions" includes the Virgin Islands, the Canal Zone, Guam, American Samoa, and the guano islands, so long as they remain possessions, but does not include any Territory or Commonwealth. erally, the Judge Advocates General of the Army, Navy, and Air Force and, except when the Coast Guard is operating as a service in the Navy, the General Counsel of the Department of the Treasury. (2) The Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard when it is operating as a service in the Navy, shall be considered as one armed force. (4) "Armed forces" means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. (5) "Department", when used with respect to a military department, means the executive part of the department and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of the department. When used with respect to the Department of Defense, it means the executive part of the department, including the executive parts of the military departments, and all field headquarters, forces, reserve components, installations, activities, and functions under the control or supervision of the Secretary of Defense, including those of the military departments. (6) "Executive part of the department" means the executive part of the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, Department of the Navy, or Department of the Air Force, as the case may be, at the seat of government. (7) "Military departments" means the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force. (8) "Secretary concerned" means (A) the Secretary of the Army, with respect to matters concerning the Army; (B) the Secretary of the Navy, with respect to matters concerning the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Coast Guard when it is operating as a service in the Navy; (C) the Secretary of the Air Force, with respect to matters concerning the Air Force; and (D) the Secretary of the Treasury, with respect to matters concerning the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy. (9) "National Guard" means the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard. (10) "Army National Guard" means that part of the organized militia of the several States and Territories, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone, and the District of Columbia, active and inactive, that |