10 U.S.C. § 9442
Cadets: appointment; numbers, territorial distribution
United States · Title 10 — ARMED FORCES · Status: effective
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The authorized strength of cadets of the Academy (determined for any year as of the day before the last day of the academic year) is 4,400 or such lower number as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force under subsection (j). Subject to that limitation, cadets are selected as follows:
In addition, there may be appointed each year at the Academy cadets as follows:
one hundred selected by the President from the children of members of an armed force who—
The Secretary of the Air Force may limit the number of cadets authorized to be appointed under this section to the number that can be adequately accommodated at the Academy as determined by the Secretary after consulting with the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives, subject to the following:
If the Secretary limits the number of appointments under subsection (a)(3) or (4), appointments under subsection (b)(1)–(4) are limited as follows:
If the Secretary limits the number of appointments under subsection (b)(5), appointments under subsection (b)(2)–(4) are limited as follows:
Legislative history
The public laws that enacted or amended this section. Tallies are for the whole bill as it passed each chamber — often an omnibus covering far more than this provision — not a vote on this section alone. The law that originally enacted this section predates the public laws loaded here, so only later amendments are listed.
- A bill to amend title 10, United States Code, to entitle the Delegates in Congress from Guam and the Virgin Islands to make appointments to the service academies.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act, 1976House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An act to amend title 10, United States Code, to revise and standardize the provisions of law relating to appointment, promotion, separation, and mandatory retirement of regular commissioned officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, to establish the permanent grade of commodore admiral in the Navy, to equalize the treatment of female commissioned officers with that of male commissioned officers, and for other purposes.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- An act to authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide civilian career employees of the Department of Defense who are residents of Guam, the Virgin Islands, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the same relative rotation rights as apply to other career employees, to authorize the Delegates in Congress from Guam and the Virgin Islands to have two appointments at a time, rather than one appointment, to each of the service academies, and to authorize the establishment of a National Guard in Guam.House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Uniformed Services Pay Act of 1981House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984House: no recorded tallySenate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991House: no recorded tallySenate: 91–8
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000
- Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001
- Bob Stump National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2003House: 359–58Senate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004
- John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007House: 398–23Senate: no recorded tally
- Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008
- Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016House: 370–58Senate: no recorded tally
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017
- John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019
- William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
- James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024
- National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026House: 312–112Senate: no recorded tally