Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110
§2032 Responsibility of the Secretaries of the Military Departments to Maximize Enrollment and Enhance Efficiency
Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART III — TRAINING AND EDUCATION › CHAPTER 102 — JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICERS’ TRAINING CORPS › § 2032
Summary
Each military department Secretary must coordinate creating, keeping, moving, or closing JROTC units under section 2031 so that as many students as possible can join and the program is managed more efficiently. When making those choices, the Secretary must think about new schools opening, schools merging, and whether students would lose their chance to stay in JROTC because of those changes.
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Title 10, §2032
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(a)Coordination.—
The Secretary of each military department, in establishing, maintaining, transferring, and terminating Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps units under section 2031 of this title, shall do so in a coordinated manner that is designed to maximize enrollment in the Corps and to enhance administrative efficiency in the management of the Corps.
(b)Consideration of New School Openings and Consolidations.—
In carrying out subsection (a), the Secretary of a military department shall take into consideration—
(1)openings of new schools;
(2)consolidations of schools; and
(3)the desirability of continuing the opportunity for participation in the Corps by participants whose continued participation would otherwise be adversely affected by new school openings and consolidations of schools.
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10 U.S.C. § 2032
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110