10 U.S.C. § 4301 : US Code - Section 4301: Members of Army: detail as students, observers, and investigators at educational institutions, industrial plants, and hospitals

Search 10 U.S.C. § 4301 : US Code - Section 4301: Members of Army: detail as students, observers, and investigators at educational institutions, industrial plants, and hospitals

(a) The Secretary of the Army may detail members of the Army as
students at such technical, professional, and other civilian
educational institutions, or as students, observers, or
investigators at such industrial plants, hospitals, and other
places, as are best suited to enable them to acquire knowledge or
experience in the specialties in which it is considered necessary
that they perfect themselves.
(b) An officer, other than one of the Regular Army on the active-
duty list, who is detailed under subsection (a) shall be ordered
to additional active duty immediately upon termination of the
detail, for a period at least as long as the detail. However, if
the detail is for 90 days or less, the officer may be ordered to
that additional duty only with his consent and in the discretion of
the Secretary.
(c) No Reserve of the Army may be detailed as a student,
observer, or investigator, or ordered to active duty under this
section, without his consent and, if a member of the Army National
Guard of the United States, without the approval of the governor or
other appropriate authority of the State, the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, or the Virgin Islands
of whose Army National Guard he is a member.
(d) The Secretary may require, as a condition of a detail under
subsection (a), that an enlisted member accept a discharge and be
reenlisted in his component for at least three years.
(e) The total length of details of an enlisted member of the Army
under subsection (a) during one enlistment may not exceed 50
percent of that enlistment.
(f) At no time may more than 8 percent of the authorized strength
in commissioned officers, 8 percent of the authorized strength in
warrant officers, or 2 percent of the authorized strength in
enlisted members, of the Regular Army, or more than 8 percent of
the actual strength in commissioned officers, 8 percent of the
actual strength in warrant officers, or 2 percent of the actual
strength in enlisted members, of the total of reserve components of
the Army, be detailed as students under subsection (a). For the
purposes of this subsection, the actual strength of each category
of Reserves includes both members on active duty and those not on
active duty.
(g) Expenses incident to the detail of members under this section
shall be paid from any funds appropriated for the Department of the
Army.