§2251 Household furnishings and other property: personnel outside the United States or in Alaska or Hawaii

Summary

Each military department's Secretary can buy household items and cars from service members and civilian Defense employees who are serving outside the United States or in Hawaii, then sell those items at cost to people arriving to take those jobs. The department can also give household furnishings for free to service members or civilian Defense employees who live in private (not government) housing while serving outside the United States or in Alaska or Hawaii. Those powers can only be used when the Secretary of Defense has approved rules and those rules say using them would be helpful to the United States.