[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 5]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR728.23]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                   CHAPTER VI--DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
 
PART 728_MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE FOR ELIGIBLE PERSONS AT NAVY MEDICAL 
DEPARTMENT FACILITIES--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart C_Members of Reserve Components, Reserve Officers' Training 
 Corps, Navy and Marine Corps Officer Candidate Programs, and National 
                             Guard Personnel
 
Sec. 728.23  Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC).

    (a) Eligible beneficiaries. (1) Members of the Senior Reserve 
Officers' Training Corps of the Armed Forces including students enrolled 
in the 4-year Senior ROTC Program or the 2-year Advanced Training Senior 
ROTC Program.
    (2) Designated applicants for membership in the Navy, Army, and Air 
Force Senior ROTC Programs during their initial 6-weeks training period 
(practice cruises or field training).
    (3) Medical, dental, pharmacy, veterinary or science allied to 
medicine students who are commissioned officers of a reserve component 
of an Armed Force who have been admitted to and training in a unit of a 
Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.
    (b) Extent of care. (1) While attending or en route to or from field 
training or practice cruises:
    (i) Medical care for a condition incurred without reference to line 
of duty.
    (ii) Routine dental care.
    (iii) Prosthetic devices, including dental appliances, hearing aids, 
spectacles, and orthopedic appliances that have become damaged or lost 
during training duty, not through negligence of the individual, may be 
repaired or replaced as necessary at government expense.
    (iv) Care of remediable physical defects, elective surgery or other 
remediable treatment for conditions that existed prior to a period of 
training duty are not authorized without approval from the appropriate 
OMA or ODA, or from the Commander, Naval Medical Command (MEDCOM-33 for 
medical and MEDCOM-06 for dental).
    (v) Medical examinations and immunizations.
    (vi) ROTC members are authorized continued medical care, including 
hospitalization, upon expiration of their field training or practice 
cruise period, the same as reservists in Sec. 728.21(b) and Sec. 
728.22.
    (2) While attending a civilian educational institution:
    (i) Medical care in naval MTFs, including hospitalization, for a 
condition incurred in line of duty while at or traveling to or from a 
military installation for the purpose of undergoing medical or other 
examinations or for purposes of making visits of observation, including 
participation in service-sponsored sports, recreational, and training 
activities.
    (ii) Medical examinations, including hospitalization necessary for 
the proper conduct thereof.
    (iii) Required immunizations, including hospitalization for severe 
reactions therefrom.

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    (c) Authorization. The individual's commanding officer will prepare 
a letter of authorization addressed to the commanding officer of the MTF 
concerned.
    (d) ROTC members as beneficiaries of the Office of Workers' 
Compensation Programs (OWCP). Under circumstances described therein, 
render care as outlined in Sec. 728.53 to members of the ROTC as 
beneficiaries of OWCP.