---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 349"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "349"
heading: "Inter-American Air Forces Academy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/349"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 16 — Security Cooperation"
  - "Subchapter V — Educational and Training Activities"
---

# §349. Inter-American Air Forces Academy

- (a) **Operation.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the Air Force may operate the Air Force education and [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) [facility](/usc/10/2700.md?p=2) known as the Inter-American Air Forces Academy for the purpose of providing [military education and training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) to [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) personnel of Central and South American countries, Caribbean countries, and other countries eligible for assistance under [chapter 5](/usc/10/chstA/ptI/ch5.md) of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ([22 U.S.C. 2347](/usc/22/2347.md) et seq.).
- (b) **Limitations.—**
  - (1) **Concurrence of secretary of state.—** [Military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) personnel of a foreign country may be provided education and [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) under this section only with the concurrence of the Secretary of State.
  - (2) **Assistance otherwise prohibited by law.—** Education and [training](/usc/10/301.md?p=9) may not be provided under this section to the [military](/usc/10/801.md?p=8) personnel of any country that is otherwise prohibited from receiving such type of assistance under any other provision of law.
- (c) **Costs.—** The fixed costs of operating and maintaining the Inter-American Air Forces Academy may be paid from funds available for operation and maintenance of the Air Force.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–510, div. A, title III, § 330(a), Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1535, § 9415; renumbered § 349 and amended Pub. L. 114–328, div. A, title XII, § 1241(j), Dec. 23, 2016, 130 Stat. 2508.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, referred to in subsec. (a), is Pub. L. 87–195, Sept. 4, 1961, 75 Stat. 424. Chapter 5 of part II of such Act is classified generally to part V of subchapter II (§ 2347 et seq.) of chapter 32 of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2151 of Title 22 and Tables.

### Amendments

2016—Pub. L. 114–328, § 1241(j)(1), renumbered section 9415 of this title as this section.

Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 114–328, § 1241(j)(2), added subsec. (b) and redesignated former subsec. (b) as (c).