§2347c Exchange training; reciprocity agreement

Summary

The President can let foreign military personnel attend U.S. professional military schools (not service academies) for free if each U.S. school has a one-for-one student exchange with a matching foreign or international school every fiscal year. The President can also let foreign military and civilian defense personnel attend U.S. flight training and test pilot schools for free, again only when there is a one-for-one exchange each fiscal year with comparable foreign flight schools. The President may set up cooperative programs in Southwest Asia for both foreign and U.S. military and civilian defense people to take post-undergraduate flying, tactical leadership, and integrated air-and-missile-defense training at no charge to the foreign participants and without using the funds set aside for this part of the program. The training must meet U.S. requirements. Each country must give a fair share of support, though the President can waive that rule if he decides it’s important for U.S. national security. U.S. costs are paid from the current budget accounts of the U.S. agencies involved, and the President must report to the right congressional committees every year on these activities.