---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2001"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2001"
heading: "Human relations training"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2001"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 101 — Training Generally"
---

# §2001. Human relations training

- (a) **Human Relations Training.—**
  - (1)
    - (A) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall ensure that the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of each [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) conducts ongoing [programs](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) for human relations [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) for all members of the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) under the jurisdiction of the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3).
    - (B) Matters covered by such [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) include race relations, equal opportunity, opposition to gender discrimination, and sensitivity to hate group activity.
    - (C) Such [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) shall be provided during basic [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) (or other initial [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9)) and on a [regular](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-12) basis thereafter.
  - (2) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall ensure that a unit commander is aware of the responsibility to ensure that impermissible activity, based upon discriminatory motives, does not occur in a unit under the command of such commander.
- (b) **Information Provided to Prospective Recruits.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall ensure that—
  - (1) each individual preparing to enter an [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) accession [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) or to execute an [original](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-10) enlistment agreement is provided information concerning the meaning of the oath of office or oath of enlistment for service in the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4) in terms of the equal protection and civil liberties guarantees of the Constitution; and
  - (2) each such individual is informed that if supporting such guarantees is not possible personally for that individual, then that individual should decline to enter the [armed forces](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-4).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–81, div. A, title V, § 552(a), Dec. 27, 2021, 135 Stat. 1735.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 2001, act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 119, related to division of reserve components into training categories, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103–337, div. A, title XVI, § 1661(a)(3)(A), Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 2980. See section 10141(c) of this title.