22 U.S.C. § 2416 — Annual foreign military training report
submitted 27 years ago by Pub. L. 87-195 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 316 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretaries of Defense and State must report annually on foreign military training, subject to an exception for certain countries, and make unclassified portions public online.
(a)(1) By January 31 each year, the Defense and State Secretaries must jointly report to the appropriate congressional committees on all military training the two Departments gave foreign military personnel in the previous fiscal year and proposed for the current fiscal year. (2) This does not cover NATO members, Australia, Japan, or New Zealand unless an appropriate committee requests inclusion in writing at least 90 calendar days before the report is due.
(b) The report must state for each activity its foreign-policy reason and purpose, number and units of foreign personnel trained, and location; for each country, total students and total training cost; and for United States personnel, operational benefits to United States forces and the United States units involved.
(c) The report must be unclassified but may have a classified annex. (d) Unclassified portions must be public online through the State Department. (e) “Appropriate congressional committees” means the House Appropriations and Foreign Affairs Committees and the Senate Appropriations and Foreign Relations Committees.
Not later than January 31 of each year, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State shall jointly prepare and submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on all military training provided to foreign military personnel by the Department of Defense and the Department of State during the previous fiscal year and all such training proposed for the current fiscal year.
Paragraph (1) does not apply to any NATO member, Australia, Japan, or New Zealand, unless one of the appropriate congressional committees has specifically requested, in writing, inclusion of such country in the report. Such request shall be made not later than 90 calendar days prior to the date on which the report is required to be transmitted.
The report described in subsection (a) shall include the following:
For each military training activity, the foreign policy justification and purpose for the activity, the number of foreign military personnel provided training and their units of operation, and the location of the training.
For each country, the aggregate number of students trained and the aggregate cost of the military training activities.
With respect to United States personnel, the operational benefits to United States forces derived from each military training activity and the United States military units involved in each activity.
The report described in subsection (a) shall be in unclassified form but may include a classified annex.
All unclassified portions of the report described in subsection (a) shall be made available to the public on the Internet through the Department of State.
In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means—
the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives; and
the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 87–195, pt. III, § 656, as added Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(7) [div. B, title XIII, § 1307], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–512; amended Pub. L. 107–228, div. B, title XII, § 1262(a), Sept. 30, 2002, 116 Stat. 1434.)
- 1999Enacted · Pub. L. 87-195 · 113 Stat. 1536, 1501
- 2002Amended · Pub. L. 107-228 · 116 Stat. 1434
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 87-195 on 1999-11-29.
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