---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2555"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2555"
heading: "Transportation services: international Girl Scout events"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2555"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 152 — Issue of Supplies, Services, and Facilities"
---

# §2555. Transportation services: international Girl Scout events

- (a) The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense is authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe, to provide, without expense to the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) Government, transportation from the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) or [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) commands overseas, and return, on vessels of the [Military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) 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](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) of America as representing the Girl Scouts of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) 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](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) of America and is conducted outside of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1), (2) [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) citizen delegates coming from outside of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) to triennial meetings of the National Council of the Girl Scouts of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) 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](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) operations.
- (b) Before furnishing any transportation under [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall take from the Girl Scouts of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) of America a good and sufficient bond for the reimbursement to the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) by the Girl Scouts of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) of America, of the actual costs of transportation furnished under [subsection (a)](#a).
- (c) Amounts paid to the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) to reimburse it for the actual costs of transportation furnished under [subsection (a)](#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.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 95–492, § 1, Oct. 20, 1978, 92 Stat. 1642, § 2545; renumbered § 2555, Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title X, § 1033(b)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–260; Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title IX, § 931(a), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1200.)

## Notes

### 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.