Training camps

§ 4385. Training camps (a) The Secretary of the Army may— (1) maintain camps for the further practical instruction of members of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; (2) transport members of the Corps to and from the camps and furnish them subsistence while traveling to and from the camps or, instead of transportation and subsistence, pay them a travel allowance of five cents a mile by the shortest usually traveled route from the places from which they are authorized to proceed to the camp and return, and pay the allowance for the return trip in advance; (3) furnish subsistence to members of the Corps while in camps; 248 (4) furnish medical attendance and supplies to members of the Corps, and admit them to military hospitals at the camps; (5) use members of the Regular Army, and such property of the United States as he considers necessary, for the training of the members of the Corps at the camps; and (6) 6) provide for the government of the camps. (b) Except in time of actual or threatened hostilities, no camp may be maintained under subsection (a) (1) for more than six weeks in any one year. (c) A member of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and any other person authorized by the Secretary to attend a camp authorized under subsection (a) (1) for students taking advanced training, is entitled, while attending that camp, to pay at the rate prescribed for enlisted members of the Army in pay grade E–1 (under 4 months).