Sec. 395. Requirements to reduce out-of-pocket costs of members of the Armed Forces for uniform items
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The Secretary of Defense shall take such steps as may be necessary to track the expected useful life of uniform items for officers and enlisted members of the Armed Forces, for the purposes of— estimating the rate at which such uniform items are replaced; and determining the resulting out-of-pocket costs for such members over time. The Secretary of Defense shall establish a uniform replacement allowance under which each officer of the Armed Forces, upon promotion to the grade of O–4, and once every three years thereafter for such time as the officer is in a grade of O–4 or above, shall be eligible to receive the allowance described in paragraph
(2)for the purpose of replacing required uniform items that have exceeded the useful life of such items. The allowance described in this paragraph is a cash allowance that the Secretary shall calculate by multiplying the annual replacement cost of each required uniform item of an officer (taking into account the expected useful life of the item pursuant to subsection
(a)and the price of the item set by the Defense Logistics Agency as of the date of the calculation) by three. Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the expected useful life of required uniform items, projected changes to such required uniform items, and related costs anticipated by the Secretary (disaggregated by Armed Force). Such report shall include pricing information for each such item, including items that are not considered uniquely military.