10 U.S.C. § 9419 — Recruit basic training: separate housing for male and female recruits

(a) Physically Separate Housing .— (1) The Secretary of the Air Force must provide for housing male recruits and female recruits separately and securely from each other during basic training. (2) To meet the requirements of paragraph (1), the sleeping areas and latrine areas provided for male recruits must be physically separated from the sleeping areas and latrine areas provided for female recruits by permanent walls, and the areas for male recruits and the areas for female recruits must have separate entrances. (3) The Secretary must ensure that, when a recruit is in an area referred to in paragraph (2), the area is supervised by one or more persons who are authorized and trained to supervise the area. (b) Alternative Separate Housing .— If male recruits and female recruits cannot be housed as provided under subsection (a) by October 1, 2001 , at a particular installation, the Secretary of the Air Force must require (on and after that date) that male recruits in basic training at such installation be housed in barracks or other troop housing facilities that are only for males and that female recruits in basic training at such installation be housed in barracks or other troop housing facilities that are only for females. (c) Construction Planning .— In planning for the construction of housing to be used for housing recruits during basic training, the Secretary of the Air Force must ensure that the housing is to be constructed in a manner that facilitates the housing of male recruits and female recruits separately and securely from each other. (d) Basic Training Defined .— In this section, the term “basic training” means the initial entry training program of the Air Force or the Space Force that constitutes the basic training of new recruits.