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[CITE: 10USC2108]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                    PART III--TRAINING AND EDUCATION
 
          CHAPTER 103--SENIOR RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS
 
Sec. 2108. Advanced standing; interruption of training; delay in 
        starting obligated service; release from program
        
    (a) The Secretary of the military department concerned may give to 
any enlisted member of an armed force under his jurisdiction, or any 
person who has served on active duty in any armed force, such advanced 
standing in the program as may be justified by his education and 
training.
    (b) In determining a member's eligibility for advanced training, the 
Secretary of the military department concerned may credit him with any 
military training that is substantially equivalent in kind to that 
prescribed for admission to advanced training and was received while he 
was taking a course of instruction in a program under the jurisdiction 
of another armed force or while he was on active duty in the armed 
forces.
    (c) The Secretary of the military department concerned may excuse 
from a portion of the prescribed course of military instruction, 
including field training and practice cruises, any person found 
qualified on the basis of his previous education, military experience, 
or both.
    (d) A person may become, remain, or be readmitted as, a member of 
the advanced training program after receiving a baccalaureate degree or 
completing pre-professional studies if he has not completed the course 
of military instruction or all field training or practice cruises 
prescribed by the Secretary of the military department concerned. If a 
member of the program has been accepted for resident graduate or 
professional study, the Secretary of the military department concerned 
may delay the commencement of that member's obligated period of active 
duty, and any obligated period of active duty for training or other 
service in an active or inactive status in a reserve component, until 
the member has completed that study. If a cadet appointed under section 
2107a of this title has been accepted for a course of study at an 
accredited civilian educational institution authorized to grant 
baccalaureate degrees, the Secretary of the Army may delay the beginning 
of that member's obligated period of service in a reserve component 
until the member has completed such course of study.
    (e) The Secretary of the military department concerned may, when he 
determines that the interest of the service so requires, release any 
person from the program and discharge him from his armed force.

(Added Pub. L. 88-647, title II, Sec. 201(1), Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 
1068; amended Pub. L. 96-357, Sec. 1(d), Sept. 24, 1980, 94 Stat. 1180.)


                               Amendments

    1980--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 96-357 authorized delay in starting 
obligated period of active duty for training or other service in an 
active or inactive status in a reserved component until completion of 
resident graduate or professional study or military junior college 
studies.


                    Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-357 effective Oct. 1, 1980, see section 1(e) 
of Pub. L. 96-357, set out as a note under section 2107a of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 2107 of this title.
