Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§9420 Recruit Basic Training: Privacy
Title 10 › Subtitle D — Air Force and Space Force › PART III — TRAINING › CHAPTER 951 — TRAINING GENERALLY › § 9420
Summary
After the training day, only instructors or staff of the same sex can enter recruits' living areas, except in emergencies. Different-sex supervisors may enter only if they are with same-sex staff.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §9420
Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
The Secretary of the Air Force shall require that access by military training instructors and other training personnel to a living area in which recruits are housed during basic training shall be limited after the end of the training day, other than in the case of an emergency or other exigent circumstance, to military training instructors and other training personnel who are of the same sex as the recruits housed in that living area or to superiors in the chain of command of those recruits who, if not of the same sex as the recruits housed in that living area, are accompanied by a member (other than a recruit) who is of the same sex as the recruits housed in that living area.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 9320 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. Implementation Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title V, § 522(c)(3), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2013, provided that: “The Secretary of the Air Force shall implement section 9320 [now 9420] 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. § 9420
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102