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Article 2, Section A of the UCMJ shows that John Kerry was not subject to the UCMJ. He was in inactive reserve status and persons in this category are not subject to the UCMJ unless the offense that they committed occured while they were in a status subject to the UCMJ.

No. Reserve officers remain legally "Officers of the United States." They can be, and have been, involuntarily recalled to active duty to be court-martialed for acts done in an inactive status.

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I went back and re-read Article 2 and cannot find any subparagraph that would apply to Kerry when he met with the North Vietnamese. Can you please tell me which part of Article 2 states that Kerry would have been subject to the UCMJ when he met with the North Vietnamese?

As much as I dislike Kerry and loathe what he did in meeting with the North Vietnamese, I cannot see where he violated the UCMJ or was even subject to it during the time he met with them.