§8431 — Title 10 Armed Forces | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of the Navy must keep male and female recruits separate and secure during basic training. Sleeping rooms and bathrooms for men and for women must be divided by fixed walls and have different entrances. Each of these areas must be watched over by staff who are trained and allowed to supervise them. If a base cannot meet these rules by October 1, 2001, men must be housed in male-only barracks and women in female-only barracks. When building new recruit housing, the Navy must design it so men and women can be kept separate and secure. Basic training means the Navy and Marine Corps’ initial training for new recruits.

Title 10, §8431

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(a)(1)The Secretary of the Navy shall provide for housing male recruits and female recruits separately and securely from each other during basic training.

(2)To meet the requirements of paragraph (1), the sleeping areas and latrine areas provided for male recruits shall be physically separated from the sleeping areas and latrine areas provided for female recruits by permanent walls, and the areas for male recruits and the areas for female recruits shall have separate entrances.

(3)The Secretary shall ensure that, when a recruit is in an area referred to in paragraph (2), the area is supervised by one or more persons who are authorized and trained to supervise the area.

(b)If male recruits and female recruits cannot be housed as provided under subsection (a) by October 1, 2001, at a particular installation, the Secretary of the Navy shall require (on and after that date) that male recruits in basic training at such installation be housed in barracks or other troop housing facilities that are only for males and that female recruits in basic training at such installation be housed in barracks or other troop housing facilities that are only for females.

(c)In planning for the construction of housing to be used for housing recruits during basic training, the Secretary of the Navy shall ensure that the housing is to be constructed in a manner that facilitates the housing of male recruits and female recruits separately and securely from each other.

(d)In this section, the term “basic training” means the initial entry training programs of the Navy and Marine Corps that constitute the basic training of new recruits.

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2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 6931 of this title as this section.

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of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

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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, § 521(b)(3), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2011, provided that: “The Secretary of the Navy shall implement section 6931 [now 8431] 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.”

§8431 Recruit Basic Training: Separate Housing for Male and Female Recruits

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Title 10, §8431

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