Federal · Title 10 — Armed Forces

10 U.S.C. § 7452: Cadets: hazing

Civil

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This statute authorizes the military academy to dismiss, suspend, or punish cadets for hazing violations. Dismissed cadets face a two-year bar from reappointment or officer commission.

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defining hazing; designed to prevent that practice; and prescribing dismissal, suspension, or other adequate punishment for violations. If a cadet who is charged with violating a regulation issued under subsection (a), the penalty for which is or may be dismissal from the Academy, requests in writing a trial by a general court-martial, he may not be dismissed for that offense except under sentence of such a court. A cadet dismissed from the Academy for hazing may not be reappointed to the Corps of Cadets, and is ineligible for appointment as a commissioned officer in a regular component of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Space Force, until two years after the graduation of his class.

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