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37 U.S.C. § 420 — Allowances while participating in international sports
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**(a)** [Section 717 of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section717&num=0&edition=prelim) does not authorize the payment of allowances at higher rates than those provided for participation in military activities not covered by that section.
**(b)** Notwithstanding any other law, a member of a uniformed service is not entitled to travel and transportation allowances under [section 452 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section452&num=0&edition=prelim) for any period during which his expenses for travel or transportation are being paid by the agency sponsoring his participation in a competition covered by [section 717 of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section717&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c)** Notwithstanding any other law, a member of a uniformed service who has no dependents is not entitled to the basic allowances for subsistence and housing authorized by sections 402 and 403 of this title for a period during which he is subsisted and quartered by the agency sponsoring his participation in a competition covered by [section 717 of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section717&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)** [Section 717 of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section717&num=0&edition=prelim) does not authorize the payment of allowances at higher rates than those provided for participation in military activities not covered by that section.
**(b)** Notwithstanding any other law, a member of a uniformed service is not entitled to travel and transportation allowances under [section 452 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section452&num=0&edition=prelim) for any period during which his expenses for travel or transportation are being paid by the agency sponsoring his participation in a competition covered by [section 717 of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section717&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c)** Notwithstanding any other law, a member of a uniformed service who has no dependents is not entitled to the basic allowances for subsistence and housing authorized by sections 402 and 403 of this title for a period during which he is subsisted and quartered by the agency sponsoring his participation in a competition covered by [section 717 of title 10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section717&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President, within authorized strengths and with the consent of the officer involved, may transfer any commissioned officer of a uniformed service from his uniformed service to, and appoint him in, another uniformed service. The Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall jointly establish, by regulations approved by the President, policies and procedures for such transfers and appointments.
**(b)** An officer transferred under this section may not be assigned precedence or relative rank higher than that which he held on the day before the transfer.
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**(a) In General.—** Except as otherwise prohibited by law, a member of the uniformed services or other authorized traveler may be provided transportation-, lodging-, or meals-in-kind, or actual and necessary expenses of travel and transportation, for, or in connection with, official travel under circumstances as specified in regulations prescribed under [section 464 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section464&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Specific Circumstances.—** The authority under subsection (a) includes travel under or in connection with, but not limited to, the following circumstances, to the extent specified in regulations prescribed under [section 464 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section464&num=0&edition=prelim):
(1) Temporary duty that requires travel between a permanent duty assignment location and another authorized temporary duty location, and travel in or around the temporary duty location.
(2) Permanent change of station that requires travel between an old and new temporary or permanent duty assignment location or other authorized location.
(3) Temporary duty or assignment relocation related to consecutive overseas tours or in-place-consecutive overseas tours.
(4) Recruiting duties for the armed forces.
(5) Assignment or detail to another Government department or agency.
(6) Rest and recuperative leave.
(7) Convalescent leave.
(8) Reenlistment leave.
(9) Reserve component inactive-duty training performed outside the normal commuting distance of the member’s permanent residence.
(10) Ready Reserve muster duty.
(11) Unusual, extraordinary, hardship, or emergency circumstances.
(12) Presence of family members at a military medical facility in
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A member of a uniformed service may not be paid an increased allowance under this chapter, on account of a dependent, for any period during which that dependent is entitled to basic pay under [section 204 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title37-section204&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a)** The Secretary of Defense, or the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, may permit members of the armed forces under his jurisdiction to train for, attend, and participate in any of the following sports competitions:
(1) The Pan-American Games and the Olympic Games, and qualifying events and preparatory competition for those games.
(2) The Paralympic Games, if eligible to participate in those games, and qualifying events and preparatory competition for those games.
(3) Any other international competition in amateur sports, if the Secretary of State determines that the interests of the United States will be served by participation in that competition, and qualifying events and preparatory competition for that competition.
**(b)** Subject to subsections (c) and (d), the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of Homeland Security, as the case may be, may spend such funds, and acquire and use such supplies, as he determines to be necessary to provide for—
(1) the training of members of the armed forces for the competitions covered by subsection (a);
(2) their attendance at and participation in those competitions; and
(3) the training of animals of the armed forces for, and their attendance at and participation in, those competitions.
**(c)**
(1) Not more than $3,000,000, to be apportioned among the military departments as the Secretary of Defense prescribes, may be spent during each successive four-year period beginning on October 1, 1980, for the participation of members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Space Force in the competitions covered by subsection (a).
(2) Not more than $100,000 may be spent during each successive four-year period beginning on October 1, 1980
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For the purpose of this subchapter—
(1) “agency” means an Executive agency and a military department;
(2) “employee” means an employee in or under an agency who is a citizen or national of the United States or an alien admitted to the United States for permanent residence, but does not include a part-time or intermittent employee or native labor casually hired on an hourly or daily basis. However, such an employee who enters a status listed in paragraph (5)(A)–(E) of this section—
(A) inside the continental United States; or
(B) who is a resident at or in the vicinity of his place of employment in a territory or possession of the United States or in a foreign country and who was not living there solely as a result of his employment;
is an employee for the purpose of this subchapter only on a determination by the head of the agency concerned that this status is the proximate result of employment by the agency;
(3) “dependent” means—
(A) a wife;
(B) an unmarried child (including an unmarried dependent stepchild or adopted child) under 21 years of age;
(C) a dependent mother or father;
(D) a dependent designated in official records; and
(E) an individual determined to be dependent by the head of the agency concerned or his designee;
(4) “active service” means active Federal service by an employee;
(5) “missing status” means the status of an employee who is in active service and is officially carried or determined to be absent in a status of—
(A) missing;
(B) missing in action;
(C) interned in a foreign country;
(D) captured, beleaguered, or besieged by a hostile force; or
(E) detained in a foreign country against his will;
but does not include the status of an employee for a period during which he is officially determined to be
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Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, an officer of an armed force who is assigned to a permanent duty station at a location outside the United States may be paid a civilian clothing allowance in such amount as the Secretary shall determine under regulations if such officer is required to wear civilian clothing all or a substantial portion of the time in the performance of the officer’s official duties. A clothing allowance under this section is in addition to any uniform allowance to which an officer is otherwise entitled under this title.
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TITLE 37—PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF THE UNIFORMED
SERVICES
§ 419
amount of the cash allowance to be paid to such en-
listed men in any case in which clothing is not so fur-
nished to them.
2. The quantity and kind of clothing, and any cash al-
lowances in lieu thereof, prescribed by the Secretary of
Homeland Security hereunder with respect to the Coast
Guard and the Coast Guard Reserve shall, so far as
practicable, be in conformity with those prescribed by
the Secretary of Defense with respect to the Navy and
Naval Reserve [now Navy Reserve], respectively.
3. Existing regulations prescribing the quantity and
kind of clothing furnished, and any cash allowances in
lieu thereof, shall remain in effect until modified, re-
voked, or superseded by action taken pursuant to this
order.
4. The term ‘‘enlisted men’’ as used in this order shall
be deemed to apply to enlisted persons of either sex.
5. This order shall become effective on April 1, 1950,
and on that date shall supersede Executive Order No.
10049 [Apr. 4, 1949, 14 F.R. 1563] entitled ‘‘Delegating the
Authority of the President to Prescribe Clothing Al-
lowances, and Cash Allowances in Lieu Thereof, to En-
listed Men in the Armed Forces.’’
§ 419. Civilian clothing allowance
Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary
of Defense, an officer of an armed force who is
assigned to a permanent duty station at a loca-
tion outside the United States may be paid a ci-
vilian clothing allowance in such amount as the
Secretary shall determine under regulations if
such officer is required to wear civilian clothing
all or a substantial portion of the time in the
performance of the officer’s official duties. A
clothing allowance under this section is in addi-
tion to any uniform allowance to which an o
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