10 U.S.C. § 925

Art. 125. Kidnapping

Any person subject to this chapter who wrongfully—

(1)

seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, or carries away another person; and

(2)

holds the other person against that person’s will;

shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

( Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041 , 70A Stat. 74 ; Pub. L. 113–66, div. A, title XVII, § 1707(a) , Dec. 26, 2013 , 127 Stat. 961 ; Pub. L. 113–291, div. A, title V, § 531(d)(1) , Dec. 19, 2014 , 128 Stat. 3364 ; Pub. L. 114–328, div. E, title LX, § 5439 , Dec. 23, 2016 , 130 Stat. 2953 .)