---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2156"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2156"
heading: "Joint Forces Staff College: duration of principal course of instruction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2156"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part III — Training and Education"
  - "Chapter 107 — Professional Military Education"
---

# §2156. Joint Forces Staff College: duration of principal course of instruction

- (a) **Duration.—** The duration of the principal course of instruction offered at the Joint Forces Staff College may not be less than 10 weeks of resident instruction.
- (b) **Definition.—** In this section, the term “principal course of instruction” means any course of instruction offered at the Joint Forces Staff College as Phase II joint professional [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) education.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title V, § 532(a)(2), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1900.)