Volume 80 · 1519
Public Law 89–802
To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit persons from countries friendly to the United States to receive instruction at the United States Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, and the United States Air Force Academy, and for other purposes.
Approved November 9, 1966
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit persons from countries friendly to the United States to receive instruction at the United States Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, and the United States Air Force Academy, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon designation by the President, the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Secretary of the Air Force, respectively, may permit persons from foreign countries to receive instruction at the Military Academy, the Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy.
A person may not be admitted to an Academy for instruction under this Act unless his country at the time of his admission is assisting the United States in Vietnam by the provision of manpower or bases.
Not more than four persons may receive instruction under this Act at any one Academy at any one time.
No person may be admitted to an Academy under this Act after October 1, 1970.
A person receiving instruction under this Act is entitled to the pay, allowances, and emoluments of a cadet or midshipman appointed from the United States and from the same appropriations.
Except as the Secretary determines, a person receiving instruction under this Act is subject to the same regulations governing admission, attendance, discipline, resignation, discharge, dismissal and graduation as a cadet or midshipman appointed from the United States. However, a person receiving instruction under this Act is not entitled to an appointment in the Armed Forces of the United States by reason of his graduation from an Academy.
A person receiving instruction under this Act is not subject to section 4346(d) of title 10, United States Code.
Approved November 9, 1966.