---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2032"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2032"
heading: "Responsibility of the Secretaries of the military departments to maximize enrollment and enhance efficiency"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2032"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 102 — Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps"
---

# §2032. Responsibility of the Secretaries of the military departments to maximize enrollment and enhance efficiency

- (a) **Coordination.—** 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), in establishing, maintaining, transferring, and terminating Junior [Reserve](/usc/10/101.md?p=c-6) [Officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1)’ [Training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) Corps units under [section 2031 of this title](/usc/10/2031.md), shall do so in a coordinated manner that is designed to maximize enrollment in the Corps and to enhance administrative efficiency in the management of the Corps.
- (b) **Consideration of New School Openings and Consolidations.—** In carrying out [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of a [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) shall take into consideration—
  - (1) openings of new schools;
  - (2) consolidations of schools; and
  - (3) the desirability of continuing the opportunity for participation in the Corps by participants whose continued participation would otherwise be adversely affected by new school openings and consolidations of schools.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title V, § 546(a), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1746.)