Recruit basic training: separate housing for male and female recruits

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Title 10—ARMED FORCES > Subtitle C—Navy and Marine Corps > PART III—EDUCATION AND TRAINING > CHAPTER 852—TRAINING GENERALLY

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The Secretary of the Navy shall provide for housing male recruits and female recruits separately and securely from each other during basic training.

(Added Pub. L. 105–261, div. A, title V, § 521(b)(1) , Oct. 17, 1998 , 112 Stat. 2010 , § 6931; renumbered § 8431, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 807(c)(1) , Aug. 13, 2018 , 132 Stat. 1836 .)

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