§2416 Annual Foreign Military Training Report

Summary

By January 31 each year, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State must send Congress a joint report on all military training given to foreign military personnel in the last fiscal year and on training planned for the current fiscal year. The report does not have to include NATO countries, Australia, Japan, or New Zealand unless one of the four congressional committees named below asks in writing at least 90 calendar days before the report is due. The report must say, for each training activity, why it was done, how many foreign students and which units were trained, and where it took place; give each country’s total students and total cost; and explain how U.S. forces benefit and which U.S. units took part. The main report must be unclassified but can have a classified annex, and the unclassified parts must be posted online by the State Department. The report goes to the House Committees on Appropriations and on International Relations, and to the Senate Committees on Appropriations and on Foreign Relations.