Advanced training: compensation

§ 4387. Advanced training: compensation (a) A member of the senior division of the Reserve Officers’ training Corps, including a member of a Medical, Dental, Medical Service, or Veterinary unit, is eligible for advanced training, and is entitled to an allowance for subsistence at such rate, not exceeding the cost of the garrison ration of the Army, as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Army, during the remainder of his service m the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, but not for more than two years, if he— (1) has completed two academic years of training in the senior division or equivalent training under subsection (b); (2) has been selected for advanced training by the head of the institution and the professor of military science and tactics; (3) agrees in writing to continue in the Reserve Officers’ training Corps for the remainder of his course at the institution; (4) agrees in writing to devote five hours a week to the military training prescribed by the Secretary or, if a member of a Medical, Dental, Medical Service, or Veterinary unit, to continue in training for the remainder of the course prescribed by section 4383 of this title; and 249 (5) agrees in writing to take a course, prescribed by the Secretary, at a training camp. (b) Under such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe, in the determination of a member’s eligibility for advanced training and entitlement to an allowance for subsistence under subsection (a), he may be credited with any military training that is substantially equivalent to that prescribed for admission to the advanced course and is received while he is— (1) in the junior division of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, or at an educational institution, and under— (A) an officer of the Army detailed as a professor of military science and tactics; or (B) a retired or reserve officer of the Army not on active duty who is employed by that institution, with the approval of the Secretary of the Army, as an instructor of military science and tactics; (2) taking a course of instruction in the Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; (3) taking a course of instruction in the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; or (4) on active duty in the armed forces. (c) A person selected for advanced training under this section may be allowed to delay the start of that training and to interrupt it, if, under the rules of the institution, there will be time enough after any delay or interruption and before graduation to complete the advanced training.