§ 3616 - Transportation of remains of certain employees

CHAPTER 47— NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY

(a) The Secretary of Defense may pay the expenses referred to in section 5742(b) of title 5 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.

Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification

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