---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 9441a"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "9441a"
heading: "Cadets: appointment by the President"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/9441a"
units:
  - "Subtitle D — Air Force and Space Force"
  - "Part III — Training"
  - "Chapter 953 — United States Air Force Academy"
---

# §9441a. Cadets: appointment by the President


Cadets at the Academy shall be appointed by the President alone. An appointment is conditional until the cadet is admitted.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 97–60, title II, § 203(c)(2)(A), Oct. 14, 1981, 95 Stat. 1006, § 9341a; renumbered § 9441a, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 806(a)(3), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1832.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 9341a 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.

### Effective Date

Section effective with respect to nominations for appointment to the first class admitted to each Academy after Oct. 14, 1981, see section 203(d) of Pub. L. 97–60, set out as a note under section 7441a of this title.