10 U.S.C. § 8431 — Recruit basic training: separate housing for male and female recruits

(a) Physically Separate Housing. (1) The Secretary of the Navy must house male recruits and female recruits separately and securely from each other during basic training. (2) To do this, the sleeping areas and bathroom ("latrine") areas for male recruits must be physically separated from those for female recruits by permanent walls, and each group must have its own separate entrance. (3) Whenever a recruit is in one of these areas, the Secretary must make sure it's supervised by someone trained and authorized to supervise it. (b) Alternative Separate Housing. If the Navy can't set up housing that meets subsection (a) at a particular base by October 1, 2001, then starting on that date the Secretary must instead house male recruits at that base only in barracks or other troop housing used only by males, and house female recruits only in barracks or other troop housing used only by females. (c) Construction Planning. When planning new housing construction for recruits in basic training, the Secretary of the Navy must make sure the housing is built in a way that makes it possible to house male and female recruits separately and securely from each other. (d) Basic Training Defined. In this section, "basic training" means the initial entry training programs of the Navy and Marine Corps that make up the basic training given to new recruits.