Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73
§7420 Recruit basic training: privacy
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle B— - Army › Part PART III— - TRAINING › Chapter CHAPTER 751— - TRAINING GENERALLY › § 7420
Summary
Secretary of the Army must limit who can enter recruits' living areas after training: only drill sergeants or other trainers who are the same sex as the recruits. Exceptions are emergencies or when a superior of the other sex is with a same-sex staff member.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §7420
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The Secretary of the Army shall require that access by drill sergeants and other training personnel to a living area in which recruits are housed during basic training shall be limited after the end of the training day, other than in the case of an emergency or other exigent circumstance, to drill sergeants and other training personnel who are of the same sex as the recruits housed in that living area or to superiors in the chain of command of those recruits who, if not of the same sex as the recruits housed in that living area, are accompanied by a member (other than a recruit) who is of the same sex as the recruits housed in that living area.
Legislative History
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Editorial Notes
Prior Provisions
A prior section 7420 was renumbered section 8720 of this title.
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4320 of this title as this section.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of
Amendments
and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title. Implementation Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title V, § 522(a)(3), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2012, provided that: “The Secretary of the Army shall implement section 4320 [now 7420] of title 10, United States Code, as added by paragraph (1), as rapidly as feasible and shall ensure that the provisions of that section are applied to all recruit basic training classes beginning not later than the first such class that enters basic training on or after April 15, 1999.”
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 7420
Title 10 — Armed Forces
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73