10 USC § 2009 - Military colleges: female students

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title: "10 USC § 2009 - Military colleges: female students"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "2009"
section_name: "Military colleges: female students"
chapter_number: 101
chapter_name: "TRAINING GENERALLY"
part_number: "III"
part_name: "TRAINING AND EDUCATION"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 98–525, title XIV, § 1401(g)(1), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2619.)"
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# § 2009. Military colleges: female students

**(a)** Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, any college or university designated by the Secretary of Defense as a military college shall, as a condition of maintaining such designation, provide that qualified female undergraduate students enrolled in such college or university be eligible to participate in military training at such college or university.

**(b)** Regulations prescribed under subsection (a) may not require a college or university, as a condition of maintaining its designation as a military college or for any other purpose, to require female undergraduate students enrolled in such college or university to participate in military training.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 98–525, title XIV, § 1401(g)(1), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2619.)

## Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in , , , which was set out as a note under , prior to repeal by , §§ 1403(b), 1404.

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