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Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102

§7402 Enlisted Members of Army: Schools

Title 10 › Subtitle B — Army › PART III — TRAINING › CHAPTER 751 — TRAINING GENERALLY › § 7402

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Allow enlisted soldiers to take classes, as long as it does not interfere with their training or duties. The Army must let them study to get better at military jobs and to prepare for civilian work. Training can include vocational subjects like farming or mechanics. The Army can hire civilian teachers to help officers give this instruction. Keep a school at every post where soldiers are stationed for basic subjects, including U.S. history. The Secretary of the Army can assign soldiers to run these schools. Post commanders must provide a suitable room or building for the school and for religious activities.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §7402

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)So far as consistent with the requirements of military training and service, and under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Army with the approval of the President, enlisted members of the Army shall be permitted to study and receive instruction to increase their military efficiency and to enable them to return to civilian life better equipped for industrial, commercial, and business occupations. Part of this instruction may be vocational education in agriculture or the mechanic arts. Civilian teachers may be employed to aid Army officers in this instruction.
(b)Schools for the instruction of enlisted members of the Army in the common branches of education, including United States history shall be maintained at all posts at which members of the Army are stationed. The Secretary may detail members of the Army to carry out this subsection. The commander of each post where schools are maintained under this subsection shall provide a suitable room or building for school and religious purposes.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 4302(a)4302(b)10:1176.10:1172.June 3, 1916, ch. 134, § 27 (last par.), 39 Stat. 186.R.S. 1231. In subsection (a), the first 12 words are substituted for 10:1176 (1st 5, and last 18, words). The words “and the Secretary of the Army shall have the power at all times to suspend, increase, or decrease the amount of such instruction offered” are omitted as surplusage. In subsection (b), the words “garrisons, and permanent camps” are omitted as covered by the word “posts”. The word “including” is substituted for the words “and especially in”. The word “members” is substituted for the words “officers and enlisted men”. The words “as may be necessary”, “It * * * be the duty”, and “or garrison” are omitted as surplusage.

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4302 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.

Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions Function of the President under subsec. (a) of this section delegated to the Secretary of Defense, see section 1(6) of Ex. Ord. No. 11390, Jan. 22, 1968, 33 F.R. 841, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.

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Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 7402

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102