Sec. 4408. Overseas management of assistance and sales programs
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In order to carry out the President’s responsibilities for the management of international security assistance programs conducted under this title, the President may assign members of the United States Armed Forces, personnel of the Department of Defense, the Department of State, or any other Federal agency, to a foreign country to perform one or more of the following functions: Equipment and services case management. Training management. Program monitoring. Evaluation and planning of the host government’s military capabilities and requirements.
Administrative support. Promoting rationalization, standardization, interoperability, and other defense cooperation measures. Liaison functions exclusive of advisory and training assistance. Advisory and training assistance conducted by military personnel assigned under this section shall be kept to an absolute minimum. It is the sense of Congress that advisory and training assistance conducted in countries to which military personnel are assigned under this section should be provided primarily by other personnel who are not assigned under this section and who are detailed for limited periods to perform specific tasks.
Except as provided in subparagraph (C), the number of members of the United States Armed Forces assigned to a foreign country under this section in a fiscal year may not exceed 12 unless specifically authorized by Congress. The President may waive the limitation in subparagraph
(A)with respect to the number of members of the United States Armed Forces assigned to a foreign country if the President determines and reports to the appropriate congressional committees 30 days prior to the introduction of the additional members of the United States Armed Forces in the foreign country, that United States national interests require that more than 12 members of the United States Armed Forces be assigned under this section to carry out international security assistance programs in the foreign country. The limitation in subparagraph
(A)shall not apply with respect to Pakistan, Tunisia, El Salvador, Honduras, Israel, Colombia, Indonesia, the Republic of Korea, the Philippines, Thailand, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey. The total number of members of the United States Armed Forces assigned to a foreign country under this section in a fiscal year may not exceed the number justified to Congress for that country in the congressional budget justification documents for that fiscal year, unless the appropriate congressional committees are notified 30 days in advance of the introduction of the additional members of the United States Armed Forces. The entire costs (excluding salaries of members of the United States Armed Forces (other than the Coast Guard)) of overseas management of international security assistance programs under this section shall be charged to or reimbursed from funds made available to carry out this chapter, other than any such costs which are either paid directly for such defense services under section 4311 or reimbursed from charges for services collected from foreign governments pursuant to section 4311 and section 4402. Members of the United States Armed Forces assigned to a foreign country under this section shall serve under the direction and supervision of the Chief of the United States Diplomatic Mission to that country. The President shall continue to instruct United States diplomatic and military personnel in United States missions that such personnel should not encourage, promote, or influence the purchase by any foreign country of United States-made military equipment, unless such personnel are specifically instructed to do so by an appropriate official of the executive branch.