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§9419 Recruit Basic Training: Separate Housing for Male and Female Recruits

Title 10 › Subtitle D — Air Force and Space Force › PART III — TRAINING › CHAPTER 951 — TRAINING GENERALLY › § 9419

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Air Force must keep male and female recruits in basic training housed separately and securely. Sleeping areas and bathrooms must be divided by permanent walls and have separate entrances. When recruits are in those areas, trained and authorized staff must supervise them. If a base cannot meet those rules by October 1, 2001, then after that date males must live in male-only barracks and females in female-only barracks. New recruit housing must be planned so separate, secure housing is possible. Basic training means the Air Force or Space Force initial entry training for new recruits.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §9419

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Physically Separate Housing.—
(1)The Secretary of the Air Force 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)Alternative Separate Housing.—
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 Air Force 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)Construction Planning.—
In planning for the construction of housing to be used for housing recruits during basic training, the Secretary of the Air Force 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)Basic Training Defined.—
In this section, the term “basic training” means the initial entry training program of the Air Force or the Space Force that constitutes the basic training of new recruits.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

Amendments

2023—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 118–31 inserted “or the Space Force” after “training program of the Air Force”. 2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 9319 of this title as this section.

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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. Implementation Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title V, § 521(c)(3), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2012, provided that: “The Secretary of the Air Force shall implement section 9319 [now 9419] 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.”

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 9419

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110