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Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-110

§166 Combatant Commands: Budget Proposals

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART I — ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS › CHAPTER 6 — COMBATANT COMMANDS › § 166

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Defense must add a separate budget plan for each unified and specified combatant command when sending the annual Department of Defense budget to Congress. The Secretary decides what to include after talking with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The plans may request money for joint exercises, force training, contingencies, and selected operations. Force training requests can include training expense payments allowed under section 322 of this title.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §166

Armed Forces, Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)Combatant Command Budgets.—
The Secretary of Defense shall include in the annual budget of the Department of Defense submitted to Congress a separate budget proposal for such activities of each of the unified and specified combatant commands as may be determined under subsection (b).
(b)Content of Proposals.—
A budget proposal under subsection (a) for funding of activities of a combatant command shall include funding proposals for such activities of the combatant command as the Secretary (after consultation with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) determines to be appropriate for inclusion. Activities of a combatant command for which funding may be requested in such a proposal include the following:
(1)Joint exercises.
(2)Force training.
(3)Contingencies.
(4)Selected operations.
(c)SOF Training With Foreign Forces.—
A funding proposal for force training under subsection (b)(2) may include amounts for training expense payments authorized in section 322 of this title.

Legislative History

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Editorial Notes

Amendments

2017—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 115–91 substituted “section 322” for “section 2011”. 1991—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102–190 added subsec. (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Pub. L. 99–433, title II, § 214(d), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 1019, provided that: “Section 166 of title 10, United States Code (as added by section 211 of this Act), shall take effect with budget proposals for fiscal year 1989.”

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 166

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110