---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2185"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2185"
heading: "Programs to be consistent with programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2185"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 110 — Educational Assistance for Members Held as Captives and Their Dependents"
---

# §2185. Programs to be consistent with programs administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs


Regulations prescribed to carry out this chapter shall provide that the programs under this chapter shall be consistent with the educational [assistance](/usc/10/2005.md?p=d-2) programs under chapters [35](/usc/38/chptIII-ch35.md) and [36](/usc/38/chptIII-ch36.md) of title 38.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–399, title VIII, § 806(d)(1), Aug. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 888; amended Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title XVI, § 1621(a)(7)(A), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1603.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1989—Pub. L. 101–189 substituted “the Department of Veterans Affairs” for “the Veterans’ Administration” in section catchline.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable with respect to persons whose captive status begins after Jan. 21, 1981, see section 806(d)(3) of Pub. L. 99–399, set out as a note under 2181 of this title.