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[CITE: 10USC2111a]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                    PART III--TRAINING AND EDUCATION
 
          CHAPTER 103--SENIOR RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS
 
Sec. 2111a. Support for senior military colleges

    (a) Detail of Officers To Serve as Commandant or Assistant 
Commandant of Cadets.--(1) Upon the request of a senior military 
college, the Secretary of Defense may detail an officer on the active-
duty list to serve as Commandant of Cadets at that college or (in the 
case of a college with an Assistant Commandant of Cadets) detail an 
officer on the active-duty list to serve as Assistant Commandant of 
Cadets at that college (but not both).
    (2) In the case of an officer detailed as Commandant of Cadets, the 
officer may, upon the request of the college, be assigned from among the 
Professor of Military Science, the Professor of Naval Science (if any), 
and the Professor of Aerospace Science (if any) at that college or may 
be in addition to any other officer detailed to that college in support 
of the program.
    (3) In the case of an officer detailed as Assistant Commandant of 
Cadets, the officer may, upon the request of the college, be assigned 
from among officers otherwise detailed to duty at that college in 
support of the program or may be in addition to any other officer 
detailed to that college in support of the program.
    (b) Designation of Officers as Tactical Officers.--Upon the request 
of a senior military college, the Secretary of Defense may authorize 
officers (other than officers covered by subsection (a)) who are 
detailed to duty as instructors at that college to act simultaneously as 
tactical officers (with or without compensation) for the Corps of Cadets 
at that college.
    (c) Detail of Officers.--The Secretary of a military department 
shall designate officers for detail to the program at a senior military 
college in accordance with criteria provided by the college. An officer 
may not be detailed to a senior military college without the approval of 
that college.
    (d) Termination or Reduction of Program Prohibited.--The Secretary 
of Defense and the Secretaries of the military departments may not take 
or authorize any action to terminate or reduce a unit of the Senior 
Reserve Officers' Training Corps at a senior military college unless the 
termination or reduction is specifically requested by the college.
    (e) Assignment to Active Duty.--(1) The Secretary of the Army shall 
ensure that a graduate of a senior military college who desires to serve 
as a commissioned officer on active duty upon graduation from the 
college, who is medically and physically qualified for active duty, and 
who is recommended for such duty by the professor of military science at 
the college, shall be assigned to active duty.
    (2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the 
Secretary of the Army from requiring a member of the program who 
graduates from a senior military college to serve on active duty.
    (f) Senior Military Colleges.--The senior military colleges are the 
following:
        (1) Texas A&M University.
        (2) Norwich University.
        (3) The Virginia Military Institute.
        (4) The Citadel.
        (5) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
        (6) North Georgia College and State University.

(Added Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title V, Sec. 545(a), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 
Stat. 317; amended Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title V, Sec. 544(d)-(f)(1), 
Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1745, 1746; Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title V, 
Sec. 541(c), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 607.)


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (e)(1). Pub. L. 106-65 struck out at end ``This 
paragraph shall apply to a member of the program at a senior military 
college who graduates from the college after March 31, 1997.''
    1997--Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 544(f)(1), substituted ``Support for'' 
for ``Detail of officers to'' in section catchline.
    Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 544(d)(2), added subsecs. 
(d) and (e). Former subsec. (d) redesignated (f).
    Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 544(e), substituted ``University'' 
for ``College'' in par. (2) and inserted ``and State University'' before 
period at end of par. (6).
    Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 544(d)(1), redesignated subsec. (d) as (f).


           Continuation of Support to Senior Military Colleges

    Section 544(a)-(c) of Pub. L. 105-85 provided that:
    ``(a) Definition of Senior Military Colleges.--For purposes of this 
section, the term `senior military colleges' means the following:
        ``(1) Texas A&M University.
        ``(2) Norwich University.
        ``(3) The Virginia Military Institute.
        ``(4) The Citadel.
        ``(5) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
        ``(6) North Georgia College and State University.
    ``(b) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
        ``(1) The senior military colleges consistently have provided 
    substantial numbers of highly qualified, long-serving leaders to the 
    Armed Forces.
        ``(2) The quality of the military leaders produced by the senior 
    military colleges is, in part, the result of the rigorous military 
    environment imposed on students attending the senior military 
    colleges by the colleges, as well as the result of the long-standing 
    close support relationship between the Corps of Cadets at each 
    college and the Reserve Officer Training Corps personnel at the 
    colleges who serve as effective leadership role models and mentors.
        ``(3) In recognition of the quality of the young leaders 
    produced by the senior military colleges, the Department of Defense 
    and the military services have traditionally maintained special 
    relationships with the colleges, including the policy to grant 
    active duty service in the Army to graduates of the colleges who 
    desire such service and who are recommended for such service by 
    their ROTC professors of military science.
        ``(4) Each of the senior military colleges has demonstrated an 
    ability to adapt its systems and operations to changing conditions 
    in, and requirements of, the Armed Forces without compromising the 
    quality of leaders produced and without interruption of the close 
    relationship between the colleges and the Department of Defense.
    ``(c) Sense of Congress.--In light of the findings in subsection 
(b), it is the sense of Congress that--
        ``(1) the proposed initiative of the Secretary of the Army to 
    end the commitment to active duty service for all graduates of 
    senior military colleges who desire such service and who are 
    recommended for such service by their ROTC professors of military 
    science is short-sighted and contrary to the long-term interests of 
    the Army;
        ``(2) as they have in the past, the senior military colleges can 
    and will continue to accommodate to changing military requirements 
    to ensure that future graduates entering military service continue 
    to be officers of superb quality who are quickly assimilated by the 
    Armed Forces and fully prepared to make significant contributions to 
    the Armed Forces through extended military careers; and
        ``(3) decisions of the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of 
    a military department that fundamentally and unilaterally change the 
    long-standing relationship of the Armed Forces with the senior 
    military colleges are not in the best interests of the Department of 
    Defense or the Armed Forces and are patently unfair to students who 
    made decisions to enroll in the senior military colleges on the 
    basis of existing Department and Armed Forces policy.''
