10 U.S.C. § 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 .)