Establishment and composition

§ 9382. Establishment and composition (a) The President may establish and maintain in civil educational institutions an Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps having— (1) a senior division at universities and colleges granting degrees, and at schools essentially military that do not confer academic degrees and that are designated as qualified by the Secretary of the Air Force; and (2) a junior division at other public or private educational institutions. (b) Each division shall consist of one or more units in the strengths prescribed by the President. (c) No unit may be established or maintained at an institution, unless— (1) a commissioned officer of the Regular Air Force is detailed to it as professor of air science and tactics; (2) the institution maintains under military instruction at least 50 physically fit male students for each unit; and (3) the authorities of the institution, other than a State university or a State institution required to provide military instruction under section 304 of title 37, agree to establish and maintain a two 569years’ elective or compulsory course of military training as a minimum for its physically fit male students the completion of which is a prerequisite for the graduation of any student beginning the course unless he is relieved of this obligation under regulations prescribed by the Secretary. (d) Only a person who is a citizen of the United States, who is at least 14 years of age, who is a student at an institution where a unit of the Corps is established, and whose condition shows that he is physically able to perform military duty or that he will be so on becoming of military age, is eligible to be a member of the Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.