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[CITE: 10USC2011]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                    PART III--TRAINING AND EDUCATION
 
                     CHAPTER 101--TRAINING GENERALLY
 
Sec. 2011. Special operations forces: training with friendly 
        foreign forces
        
    (a) Authority To Pay Training Expenses.--Under regulations 
prescribed pursuant to subsection (c), the commander of the special 
operations command established pursuant to section 167 of this title and 
the commander of any other unified or specified combatant command may 
pay, or authorize payment for, any of the following expenses:
        (1) Expenses of training special operations forces assigned to 
    that command in conjunction with training, and training with, armed 
    forces and other security forces of a friendly foreign country.
        (2) Expenses of deploying such special operations forces for 
    that training.
        (3) In the case of training in conjunction with a friendly 
    developing country, the incremental expenses incurred by that 
    country as the direct result of such training.

    (b) Purpose of Training.--The primary purpose of the training for 
which payment may be made under subsection (a) shall be to train the 
special operations forces of the combatant command.
    (c) Regulations.--The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe 
regulations for the administration of this section. The regulations 
shall require that training activities may be carried out under this 
section only with the prior approval of the Secretary of Defense. The 
regulations shall establish accounting procedures to ensure that the 
expenditures pursuant to this section are appropriate.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
        (1) The term ``special operations forces'' includes civil 
    affairs forces and psychological operations forces.
        (2) The term ``incremental expenses'', with respect to a 
    developing country, means the reasonable and proper cost of rations, 
    fuel, training ammunition, transportation, and other goods and 
    services consumed by such country, except that the term does not 
    include pay, allowances, and other normal costs of such country's 
    personnel.

    (e) Reports.--Not later than April 1 of each year, the Secretary of 
Defense shall submit to Congress a report regarding training during the 
preceding fiscal year for which expenses were paid under this section. 
Each report shall specify the following:
        (1) All countries in which that training was conducted.
        (2) The type of training conducted, including whether such 
    training was related to counter-narcotics or counter-terrorism 
    activities, the duration of that training, the number of members of 
    the armed forces involved, and expenses paid.
        (3) The extent of participation by foreign military forces, 
    including the number and service affiliation of foreign military 
    personnel involved and physical and financial contribution of each 
    host nation to the training effort.
        (4) The relationship of that training to other overseas training 
    programs conducted by the armed forces, such as military exercise 
    programs sponsored by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, military exercise 
    programs sponsored by a combatant command, and military training 
    activities sponsored by a military department (including deployments 
    for training, short duration exercises, and other similar unit 
    training events).
        (5) A summary of the expenditures under this section resulting 
    from the training for which expenses were paid under this section.
        (6) A discussion of the unique military training benefit to 
    United States special operations forces derived from the training 
    activities for which expenses were paid under this section.

(Added Pub. L. 102-190, div. A, title X, Sec. 1052(a)(1), Dec. 5, 1991, 
105 Stat. 1470; amended Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title XV, 
Sec. 1503(a)(18), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 512; Pub. L. 105-261, div. A, 
title X, Sec. 1062, Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2129.)


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105-261, Sec. 1062(a), inserted after 
first sentence ``The regulations shall require that training activities 
may be carried out under this section only with the prior approval of 
the Secretary of Defense.''
    Subsec. (e)(5), (6). Pub. L. 105-261, Sec. 1062(b), added pars. (5) 
and (6).
    1996--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-106 substituted ``To'' for ``to'' in 
heading.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 166 of this title.
