§2606 Scouting: Cooperation and Assistance in Foreign Areas

Summary

The Secretary concerned may work with and help the Boy Scouts of America and the Girl Scouts of the United States of America set up and run facilities and services outside the United States for members of the armed forces, their dependents, and Department of Defense civilian employees and their dependents. That help can only follow rules set by the Secretary of Defense and only if the President finds it is needed for morale, welfare, and recreation. Scouting staff doing that work can get travel paid by the United States and can use office space, storage, utilities, and communications for free. Supplies may be shipped at U.S. expense if needed under the rules. The Secretary may repay some or all of a scout employee’s pay for time spent doing the work, but that repayment must not come from money Congress appropriated. Those scouting workers are not U.S. government employees.