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[CITE: 10USC4303]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                            Subtitle B--Army
 
                           PART III--TRAINING
 
                     CHAPTER 401--TRAINING GENERALLY
 
Sec. 4303. Army Ranger training: instructor staffing; safety

    (a) Levels of Personnel Assigned.--(1) The Secretary of the Army 
shall ensure that at all times the number of officers, and the number of 
enlisted members, permanently assigned to the Ranger Training Brigade 
(or other organizational element of the Army primarily responsible for 
Ranger student training) are not less than 90 percent of the required 
manning spaces for officers, and for enlisted members, respectively, for 
that brigade.
    (2) In this subsection, the term ``required manning spaces'' means 
the number of personnel spaces for officers, and the number of personnel 
spaces for enlisted members, that are designated in Army authorization 
documents as the number required to accomplish the missions of a 
particular unit or organization.
    (b) Training Safety Cells.--(1) The Secretary of the Army shall 
establish and maintain an organizational entity known as a ``safety 
cell'' as part of the organizational elements of the Army responsible 
for conducting each of the three major phases of the Ranger Course. The 
safety cell in each different geographic area of Ranger Course training 
shall be comprised of personnel who have sufficient continuity and 
experience in that geographic area of such training to be knowledgeable 
of the local conditions year-round, including conditions of terrain, 
weather, water, and climate and other conditions and the potential 
effect on those conditions on Ranger student training and safety.
    (2) Members of each safety cell shall be assigned in sufficient 
numbers to serve as advisers to the officers in charge of the major 
phase of Ranger training and shall assist those officers in making 
informed daily ``go'' and ``no-go'' decisions regarding training in 
light of all relevant conditions, including conditions of terrain, 
weather, water, and climate and other conditions.

(Added Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title V, Sec. 562(a)(1), Feb. 10, 1996, 
110 Stat. 323.)


        Accomplishment of Required Manning Levels; GAO Assessment

    Section 562(b), (c) of Pub. L. 104-106 provided that:
    ``(b) Accomplishment of Required Manning Levels.--(1) If, as of the 
date of the enactment of this Act [Feb. 10, 1996], the number of 
officers, and the number of enlisted members, permanently assigned to 
the Army Ranger Training Brigade are not each at (or above) the 
requirement specified in subsection (a) of section 4303 of title 10, 
United States Code, as added by subsection (a), the Secretary of the 
Army shall--
        ``(A) take such steps as necessary to accomplish that 
    requirement within 12 months after such date of enactment; and
        ``(B) submit to Congress, not later than 90 days after such date 
    of enactment, a plan to achieve and maintain that requirement.
    ``(2) The requirement specified in subsection (a) of section 4303 of 
title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall expire 
two years after the date (on or after the date of the enactment of this 
Act) on which the required manning levels referred to in paragraph (1) 
are first attained.
    ``(c) GAO Assessment.--(1) Not later than one year after the date of 
the enactment of this Act [Feb. 10, 1996], the Comptroller General shall 
submit to Congress a report providing a preliminary assessment of the 
implementation and effectiveness of all corrective actions taken by the 
Army as a result of the February 1995 accident at the Florida Ranger 
Training Camp, including an evaluation of the implementation of the 
required manning levels established by subsection (a) of section 4303 of 
title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a).
    ``(2) At the end of the two-year period specified in subsection 
(b)(2), the Comptroller General shall submit to Congress a report 
providing a final assessment of the matters covered in the preliminary 
report under paragraph (1). The report shall include the Comptroller 
General's recommendation as to the need to continue required statutory 
manning levels as specified in subsection (a) of section 4303 of title 
10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a).''
