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Title 54, National Park Service and Related ProgramsRelease 119-110

§103302 Camps for Military Instruction

Title 54 › Subtitle I — National Park System › CHAPTER 1033 — NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS › § 103302

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Air Force can, if money is available, gather parts of the U.S. military into camps at military maneuver fields when and for how long they choose so those troops can get training. They can assign instructors from the Regular Army or Regular Air Force to train the forces during those exercises. They can also make rules for how the National Guard or State militia must assemble and operate on the maneuver grounds.

Full Legal Text

Title 54, §103302

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(a)Assembling of Forces and Detailing of Instructors.—
The Secretary of the Army or Secretary of the Air Force, within the limits of appropriations that may be available for that purpose, may assemble in camp at such season of the year and for such period as the Secretary of the Army or Secretary of the Air Force may designate, at the field of military maneuvers, such portions of the military forces of the United States as the Secretary of the Army or Secretary of the Air Force may think best, to receive military instruction there. The Secretary of the Army of Secretary of the Air Force may detail instructors from the Regular Army or Regular Air Force, respectively, for those forces during their exercises.
(b)Regulations.—
The Secretary of the Army or Secretary of the Air Force may prescribe regulations governing the assembling of the National Guard or militia of the States on the maneuvering grounds.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 10330216 U.S.C. 412.May 15, 1896, ch. 182, § 2, 29 Stat. 121; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501. In this section, the words “or Secretary of the Air Force” and “or Regular Air Force” are added because certain functions, personnel, and property, insofar as they pertain to the Air Force, were transferred from the Secretary of the Army and Department of the Army to the Secretary of the Air Force and Department of the Air Force by Secretary of Defense Transfer Order Nos. 1, September 26, 1947; 10, April 27, 1948; and 40 [App. B(65)], July 22, 1949. In subsection (b), the words “and publish” are omitted because of 44 U.S.C. 1505.

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Citation

54 U.S.C. § 103302

Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110