Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§2009 Military Colleges: Female Students
Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART III — TRAINING AND EDUCATION › CHAPTER 101 — TRAINING GENERALLY › § 2009
Summary
The Secretary of Defense must set rules so any school called a military college lets qualified female undergraduates take its military training. Those rules cannot force these students to join the training or make it required to keep the school's military status.
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Title 10, §2009
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(a)Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, any college or university designated by the Secretary of Defense as a military college shall, as a condition of maintaining such designation, provide that qualified female undergraduate students enrolled in such college or university be eligible to participate in military training at such college or university.
(b)Regulations prescribed under subsection (a) may not require a college or university, as a condition of maintaining its designation as a military college or for any other purpose, to require female undergraduate students enrolled in such college or university to participate in military training.
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Prior Provisions
Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in Pub. L. 95–485, title VIII, § 809, Oct. 20, 1978, 92 Stat. 1623, which was set out as a note under section 2102 of this title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 98–525, §§ 1403(b), 1404.
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Effective Date
Section effective Oct. 1, 1985, see section 1404 of Pub. L. 98–525, set out as a note under section 520b of this title.
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 2009
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102