Advanced training: compensation

§ 9387. Advanced training: compensation (a) A member of the senior division of the Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps 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 Air Force, as may be fixed by the Secretary of the Air Force during the remainder of his service in the Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, but not 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 air science and tactics; (3) agrees in writing to continue in the Air Force 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 medical, dental, pharmacy, or veterinary student, to continue in training for the remainder of the course prescribed by section 9383 of this title; and (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 determining a member’s eligibility for advanced training and entitlement to an allowance for subsistence under subsection (a), he may 571be credited with periods of military training, if that training is substantially equivalent to that prescribed for admission to the advanced course and is received while he is— (1) taking a course of instruction in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps of the Army; (2) taking a course of instruction in the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; or (3) 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.