S.Amdt. 512

SA 512. Mr. THUNE submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle A of title IV, add the following:

SEC. 404. EXCLUSION FROM ACTIVE-DUTY PERSONNEL END STRENGTH
LIMITATIONS OF CERTAIN MILITARY PERSONNEL
ASSIGNED FOR DUTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE
FOREIGN MILITARY SALES PROGRAM.

(a) Exclusion.--Except as provided in subsection (c),
members of the Armed Forces on active duty who are assigned
to an entity specified in subsection (b) for duty in
connection with the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program
shall not count toward any end strength limitation for
active-duty personnel otherwise applicable to members of the
Armed Forces on active duty.
(b) Specified Entities.--The entities specified in this
subsection are the following:
(1) The military departments.
(2) The Defense Security Cooperation Agency.
(3) The combatant commands.
(c) Inapplicability to General and Flag Officers.--
Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to any general or
flag officer assigned as described in that subsection.
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