---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3616"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3616"
heading: "Transportation of remains of certain employees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3616"
units:
  - "Chapter 47 — National Security Agency"
---

# §3616. Transportation of remains of certain employees

- (a) The Secretary of Defense may pay the expenses referred to in [section 5742(b) of title 5](/usc/5/5742.md?p=b) in the case of any employee of the National Security Agency who dies while on a rotational tour of duty within the United States or while in transit to or from such tour of duty.
- (b) For the purposes of this section, the term “rotational tour of duty”, with respect to an employee, means a permanent change of station involving the transfer of the employee from the National Security Agency headquarters to another post of duty for a fixed period established by regulation to be followed at the end of such period by a permanent change of station involving a transfer of the employee back to such headquarters.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 86–36, § 18, formerly § 17, as added Pub. L. 102–183, title IV, § 405, Dec. 4, 1991, 105 Stat. 1267; renumbered § 18, Pub. L. 102–496, title III, § 304(a), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3183.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified in a note under section 402 of this title prior to editorial reclassification as this section.