---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 7654"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "7654"
heading: "Quartermaster supplies: military instruction camps"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/7654"
units:
  - "Subtitle B — Army"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Procurement"
  - "Chapter 771 — Issue of Serviceable Material Other Than to Armed Forces"
---

# §7654. Quartermaster supplies: military instruction camps


Under such conditions as he may prescribe, the [Secretary](/usc/10/7551.md?p=5) of the Army may issue, to any educational institution at which an Army [officer](/usc/10/101.md?p=b-1) is detailed as professor of military science and tactics, such quartermaster [supplies](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-14) as are necessary to establish and maintain a camp for the military instruction of its students. The [Secretary](/usc/10/7551.md?p=5) shall require a bond in the value of the property issued under this section, for the care and safekeeping of that property and, except for property properly expended, for its return when required.


## Source credit

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 261, § 4654; renumbered § 7654, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(d), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1839.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 4654 | 10:1182. | May 18, 1916, ch. 124, 39 Stat. 123. |

The words “at his discretion and” and “belonging to the Government, and which can be spared for that purpose, as may appear to be” are omitted as surplusage. The words “except for property properly expended” are inserted for clarity. The word “stores” is omitted as covered by the word “supplies”.

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 7654 was renumbered section 8854 of this title.

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4654 of this title as this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2018 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of amendments and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.