Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73

§9654 Supplies: military instruction camps

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle D— - Air Force and Space Force › Part PART IV— - SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT › Chapter CHAPTER 971— - ISSUE OF SERVICEABLE MATERIAL OTHER THAN TO ARMED FORCES › § 9654

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Air Force can give supplies to any school where an Air Force or Space Force officer is assigned to teach science and tactics so the school can set up and run a military training camp for its students. The Secretary must get a bond equal to the value of the items to make sure the supplies are kept safe and, unless they were properly used up, returned when asked.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §9654

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Under such conditions as he may prescribe, the Secretary of the Air Force may issue, to any educational institution at which an Air Force or Space Force officer is detailed as professor of science and tactics, such supplies as are necessary to establish and maintain a camp for the military instruction of its students. The Secretary shall require a bond in the value of the property issued under this section, for the care and safekeeping of that property and, except for property properly expended, for its return when required.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 965410:1182.May 18, 1916, ch. 124, 39 Stat. 123. The words “at his discretion and” and “belonging to the Government, and which can be spared for that purpose, as may appear to be” are omitted as surplusage. The words “except for property properly expended” are inserted for clarity. The word “stores” is omitted as covered by the word “supplies”.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2021—Pub. L. 116–283 inserted “or Space Force” after “an Air Force” and substituted “science and tactics” for “air science and tactics”.

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 9654

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73