Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 43 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps
§ 3007. Training and physical fitness
Statutory text
Training
The Secretary may take such measures as may be necessary to ensure that officers are prepared to carry out their duties in the commissioned officer corps of the Administration and proficient in the skills necessary to carry out such duties. Such measures may include the following:
Carrying out training programs and correspondence courses, including establishing and operating a basic officer training program to provide initial indoctrination and maritime vocational training for officer candidates as well as refresher training, mid-career training, aviation training, and such other training as the Secretary considers necessary for officer development and proficiency.
Providing officers and officer candidates with educational materials.
Acquiring such equipment as may be necessary for training and instructional purposes.
Physical fitness
The Secretary shall ensure that officers maintain a high physical state of readiness by establishing standards of physical fitness for officers that are substantially equivalent to those prescribed for officers in the Coast Guard.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 107–372 title II § 217 · 116 Stat. 3078
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 3007
(Pub. L. 107–372, title II, § 217, as added Pub. L. 116–259, title I, § 104(a), Dec. 23, 2020, 134 Stat. 1156.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 107–372, title II, § 217, as added Pub. L. 116–259, title I, § 104(a), Dec. 23, 2020, 134 Stat. 1156.)
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Credits
(Pub. L. 107–372, title II, § 217, as added Pub. L. 116–259, title I, § 104(a), , 134 Stat. 1156.)