---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2110"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2110"
heading: "Logistical support"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2110"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 103 — Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps"
---

# §2110. Logistical support

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned may issue to institutions having units of the [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1), or to the [officers](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) of the armed force concerned who are designated as accountable or responsible for such property—
  - (1) [supplies](/usc/10/3011.md?p=8), means of transportation including aircraft, arms and ammunition, and [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) textbooks and educational materials; and
  - (2) uniform clothing, except that he may [pay](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-15) monetary allowances for uniform clothing at such [rate](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-9) as he may prescribe.
- (b) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned may provide, or contract with civilian flying or aviation schools or educational institutions to provide, the personnel, aircraft, [supplies](/usc/10/3011.md?p=8), [facilities](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2), services, and instruction necessary for flight instruction and orientation for properly designated members of the [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1).
- (c) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned may transport members of, and designated applicants for membership in, the [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) to and from installations when it is necessary for them to undergo medical or other examinations or for the purposes of making visits of observation. He may also furnish them subsistence, quarters, and necessary medical care, including hospitalization, while they are at, or traveling to or from, such an installation.
- (d) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned may authorize members of, and designated applicants for membership in, the [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1) to participate in aerial flights in [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) aircraft and in indoctrination cruises in naval vessels.
- (e) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned may authorize such expenditures as he considers necessary for the efficient maintenance of the [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1).
- (f) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) [department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) concerned shall require, from each institution to which property is issued under [subsection (a)](#a), a bond or other indemnity in such amount as he considers adequate, but not less than $5,000, for the care and safekeeping of all property so issued except uniforms, expendable articles, and [supplies](/usc/10/3011.md?p=8) expended in operation, maintenance, and instruction. The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) may accept a bond without surety if the institution to which the property is issued furnishes to him satisfactory evidence of its financial responsibility.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 88–647, title II, § 201(1), Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1069; amended Pub. L. 89–718, § 18, Nov. 2, 1966, 80 Stat. 1118; Pub. L. 94–273, § 11(2), Apr. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 378; Pub. L. 97–375, title I, § 104(c), Dec. 21, 1982, 96 Stat. 1819.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1982—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 97–375 struck out requirement that the Secretary of each military department report annually to Congress in April on the progress of the flight instruction program.

1976—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 94–273 substituted “April” for “January”.

1966—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 89–718 substituted “educational” for “education”.