10 USC § 9434 - Command and supervision

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title: "10 USC § 9434 - Command and supervision"
title_number: 10
title_name: "ARMED FORCES"
section_number: "9434"
section_name: "Command and supervision"
chapter_number: 953
chapter_name: "UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY"
part_number: "III"
part_name: "TRAINING"
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last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 562, § 9334; Pub. L. 85–600, § 1(21), Aug. 6, 1958, 72 Stat. 524; Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title V, § 515(a)(3), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1441; renumbered § 9434, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 806(a)(3), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1832.)"
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# § 9434. Command and supervision

**(a)** The immediate government of the Academy is under the Superintendent, who is also the commanding officer of the Academy and of the military post.

**(b)** The permanent professors and the director of admissions exercise command only in the academic department of the Academy.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 562, § 9334; Pub. L. 85–600, § 1(21), Aug. 6, 1958, 72 Stat. 524; Pub. L. 101–189, div. A, title V, § 515(a)(3), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1441; renumbered § 9434, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 806(a)(3), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1832.)

| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 9334(a) | 10:1042. | R.S. 1311. |
| 9334(b) | 10:1079. | June 28, 1902, ch. 1300 (1st proviso under “Permanent Establishment”), 32 Stat. 409. |

In subsection (a), the words “and, in his absence, the next in rank” are omitted as surplusage.

In subsection (b), reference to assimilated rank is omitted as superseded by . The words “and the associate professor” are omitted as obsolete.

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018— renumbered  as this section.

1989—Subsec. (b).  substituted “director of admissions” for “registrar”.

1958—Subsec. (b).  inserted reference to registrar.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see , set out as a note preceding .