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§2555 Transportation Services: International Girl Scout Events

Title 10 › Subtitle A — General Military Law › PART IV — SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY › CHAPTER 152 — ISSUE OF SUPPLIES, SERVICES, AND FACILITIES › § 2555

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Defense can arrange travel on Military Sealift Command ships or Air Mobility Command planes at no cost to the U.S. government for three kinds of travel: Girl Scouts and leaders the Girl Scouts of the USA officially name to attend national-board-approved international World Friendship or Troops on Foreign Soil events held outside the United States; U.S. citizen delegates coming from abroad to triennial (every three years) National Council meetings; and their equipment. The Secretary makes the rules, and the travel must not interfere with military operations. The Girl Scouts must give a bond that guarantees they will repay the actual cost of the transportation. Any money repaid goes back into the same government accounts that covered the trip and can be used for the same purposes.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §2555

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(a)The Secretary of Defense is authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to provide, without expense to the United States Government, transportation from the United States or military commands overseas, and return, on vessels of the Military Sealift Command or aircraft of the Air Mobility Command for (1) those Girl Scouts and officials certified by the Girl Scouts of the United States of America as representing the Girl Scouts of the United States of America at any International World Friendship Event or Troops on Foreign Soil meeting which is endorsed and approved by the National Board of Directors of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America and is conducted outside of the United States, (2) United States citizen delegates coming from outside of the United States to triennial meetings of the National Council of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, and (3) the equipment and property of such Girl Scouts and officials, to the extent that such transportation will not interfere with the requirements of military operations.
(b)Before furnishing any transportation under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall take from the Girl Scouts of the United States of America a good and sufficient bond for the reimbursement to the United States by the Girl Scouts of the United States of America, of the actual costs of transportation furnished under subsection (a).
(c)Amounts paid to the United States to reimburse it for the actual costs of transportation furnished under subsection (a) shall be credited to the current applicable appropriations or funds to which such costs were charged and shall be available for the same purposes as such appropriations or funds.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Another section 2555 was renumbered section 2565 of this title.

Amendments

2001—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–107 substituted “Air Mobility Command” for “Military Airlift Command”. 2000—Pub. L. 106–398 renumbered section 2545 of this title as this section.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

10 U.S.C. § 2555

Title 10, Armed Forces

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102