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§ 7142. Army: percentage of high-school graduates

Notwithstanding section 520(b) of this title, of the males with no prior military service who are enlisted or inducted into the Army during any fiscal year, the number who are not high-school graduates may not exceed, as of the end of the fiscal year, 35 percent of all such persons.

(Added Pub. L. 99–661, div. A, title IV, § 402(a), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3859, § 3262; amended Pub. L. 100–370, § 1(a)(2), July 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 840; renumbered § 7142, Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title VIII, § 808(b)(2), Aug. 13, 2018, 132 Stat. 1838.)