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title: "10 U.S.C. § 1088"
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title_number: 10
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# 10 U.S.C. § 1088 - Air evacuation patients: furnished subsistence

## Text

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary concerned, a person entitled to medical and dental care under this chapter may be furnished subsistence without charge while being evacuated as a patient by military aircraft of the United States.

(Added Pub. L. 91–481, § 2(1), Oct. 21, 1970, 84 Stat. 1081.)