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Reserves and retired members: acceptance of employment, payments, and awards from foreign governments through private entities

Division A · Title VI: MILITARY COMPENSATION AND OTHER BENEFITS · Subtitle F: Other Benefits, Reports, and Briefings

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Military departments must apply existing rules about accepting employment, payments, or awards from foreign governments to retired members and certain reserve members who are not on active duty for more than 30 days. This includes situations where the foreign government provides these benefits indirectly through private companies.

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Section Text · Sec. 653.
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(1)

by redesignating paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) as subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C), respectively, and adjusting the margins accordingly;

(2)

by inserting (1) before Subject to ; and

(3)

by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

(2)
(A)

The Secretary of the military department concerned shall apply the provisions of this section to the acceptance, by a person described in subparagraph (B) who is under the jurisdiction of such Secretary, of employment (and compensation related to that employment) or payments or awards indirectly from a foreign government through a private entity to the same extent and in the same manner as such provisions apply to employment (and compensation related to that employment) and payments and awards described in paragraph (1).

(B)

A person described in this subparagraph is—

(i)

a retired member of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Space Force; or

(ii)

a member—