Training and exercises with friendly foreign countries: payment of training and exercise expenses

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Title 10—ARMED FORCES > Subtitle A—General Military Law > PART I—ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS > CHAPTER 16—SECURITY COOPERATION > SUBCHAPTER III—TRAINING WITH FOREIGN FORCES

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The armed forces under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Defense may train with the military forces, or other national security forces that perform a similar function, of a friendly foreign country if the Secretary determines that it is in the national security interest of the United States to do so.

(Added Pub. L. 99–661, div. A, title XIII, § 1321(a)(1) , Nov. 14, 1986 , 100 Stat. 3988 , § 2010; amended Pub. L. 105–85, div. A, title X, § 1073(a)(35) , Nov. 18, 1997 , 111 Stat. 1902 ; Pub. L. 110–417 , [div. A], title XII, § 1203(a), Oct. 14, 2008 , 122 Stat. 4622 ; Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title X, § 1061(12) , Dec. 31, 2011 , 125 Stat. 1583 ; renumbered § 321 and amended Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title XII, § 1244(a) , Dec. 23, 2016 , 130 Stat. 2516 ; Pub. L. 115–232, div. A, title XII, § 1204(c)(1)(B) , Aug. 13, 2018 , 132 Stat. 2017 ; Pub. L. 119–60, div. A, title XII, § 1201(a)(1) –(4)(A), Dec. 18, 2025 , 139 Stat. 1080 , 1081.)

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