Title 10 — Armed ForcesRelease 119-73not60
§9432 Departments and Professors: Titles
Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle D— Air Force and Space Force › Part III— TRAINING › Chapter 953— UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY › § 9432
Summary
The Secretary of the Air Force can choose the names used for the Academy’s teaching departments and for professors’ job titles. Changing a name will not change a professor’s rank, job status, eligibility for promotion or retirement, or otherwise hurt them.
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Title 10, §9432
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The Secretary of the Air Force may prescribe the titles of each of the departments of instruction and the professors of the Academy. However, the change of the title of a department or officer does not affect the status, rank, or eligibility for promotion or retirement of, or otherwise prejudice, a professor at the Academy.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Historical and Revision Notes
Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 933210:1061a.Dec. 14, 1942, ch. 729, 56 Stat. 1049. The words “now or after December 14, 1942, established at” are omitted as surplusage. The word “precedence” is omitted as covered by the word “rank”. The words “pay, allowances” are omitted, since they are determined by the grade held. The words “from time to time”, “shall be known”, and “operate in any case or on any account” are omitted as surplusage.
Editorial Notes
Amendments
2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 9332 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.
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 9432
Title 10 — Armed Forces
Last Updated
Apr 3, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60