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(A) CHAPTER 453.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 453 of such title is 
amended by striking the items relating to sec-
tions 4832 and 4836. 
(B) CHAPTER 953.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of chapter 953 of such title is 
amended by striking the items relating to sec-
tions 9832 and 9836. 
SEC. 365. RETENTION OF ARMY COMBAT UNIFORMS BY 
MEMBERS OF ARMY DEPLOYED IN SUPPORT 
OF CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS. 
(a) RETENTION OF COMBAT UNIFORMS.—Chapter 
435 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following new section: 
‘‘§ 4566. Retention of Army combat uniforms by mem-
bers deployed in support of contingency 
operations 
‘‘The Secretary of the Army may authorize a member 
of the Army who has been deployed in support of a contin-
gency operation for at least 30 days to retain, after that 
member is no longer so deployed, the exterior articles of 
uniform that were issued to that member as part of an 
Army combat uniform.’’.
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(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections 
at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding 
at the end the following new item: 
‘‘4566. Retention of Army combat uniforms by members deployed in support of 
contingency operations.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Section 4566 of title 10, 
United States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall 
apply with respect to a member of the Army who com-
pletes a deployment on or after October 1, 2007. 
SEC. 366. ISSUE OF SERVICEABLE MATERIAL OTHER THAN 
TO ARMED FORCES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part IV of subtitle C of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
following new chapter: 
‘‘CHAPTER 667—ISSUE OF SERVICEABLE 
MATERIAL OTHER THAN TO ARMED 
FORCES 
‘‘Sec. 
‘‘7911. Arms, tentage, and equipment: educational institutions not maintaining 
units of R.O.T.C. 
‘‘7912. Rifles and ammunition for target practice: educational institutions hav-
ing corps of midshipmen. 
‘‘7913. Supplies: military instruction camps. 
‘‘§ 7911. Arms, tentage, and equipment: educational 
institutions not maintaining units of 
R.O.T.C. 
‘‘Under such conditions as he may prescribe, the Sec-
retary of the Navy may issue arms, tentage, and equip-
ment that he considers necessary for proper military train-
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ing, to any educational institution at which no unit of the 
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is maintained, but which 
has a course in military training prescribed by the Sec-
retary and which has at least 50 physically fit students 
over 14 years of age. 
‘‘§ 7912. Rifles and ammunition for target practice: 
educational institutions having corps of 
midshipmen 
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY TO LEND.—The Secretary of the 
Navy may lend, without expense to the United States, 
magazine rifles and appendages that are not of the exist-
ing service models in use at the time and that are not 
necessary for a proper reserve supply, to any educational 
institution having a uniformed corps of midshipmen of 
sufficient number for target practice. He may also issue 
40 rounds of ball cartridges for each midshipman for each 
range at which target practice is held, but not more than 
120 rounds each year for each midshipman participating 
in target practice. 
‘‘(b) RESPONSIBILITIES OF INSTITUTIONS.—The in-
stitutions to which property is lent under subsection (a) 
shall— 
‘‘(1) use the property for target practice; 
‘‘(2) take proper care of the property; and 
‘‘(3) return the property when required.
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‘‘(c) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall prescribe 
regulations to carry out this section, containing such other 
requirements as he considers necessary to safeguard the 
interests of the United States. 
‘‘§ 7913. Supplies: military instruction camps 
‘‘Under such conditions as he may prescribe, the Sec-
retary of the Navy may issue, to any educational institu-
tion at which an officer of the naval service is detailed 
as professor of naval science, such supplies as are nec-
essary to establish and maintain a camp for the military 
instruction of its students. The Secretary shall require a 
bond in the value of the property issued under this section, 
for the care and safekeeping of that property and except 
for property properly expended, for its return when re-
quired.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of chapters 
at the beginning of subtitle C of such title, and the table 
of chapters at the beginning of part IV of such subtitle, 
are each amended by inserting after the item relating to 
chapter 665 the following new item: 
‘‘667. Issue of Serviceable Material Other Than to Armed Forces ......... 7911.’’. 
SEC. 367. PROHIBITION ON DEACTIVATION OF 36TH RES-
CUE FLIGHT. 
The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that no action 
is taken to deactivate the Air Force unit known as the 
36th Rescue Flight that is assigned to Fairchild Air Force