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TITLE XV—AUTHORIZATION FOR 
INCREASED COSTS DUE TO 
OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM 
AND OPERATION ENDURING 
FREEDOM 
Subtitle A—General Increases 
1501. Purpose. 
1502. Army procurement. 
1503. Navy and Marine Corps procurement. 
1504. Defense-wide activities procurement. 
1505. Research, development, test, and evaluation, defense-wide activities. 
1506. Operation and maintenance. 
1507. Defense working capital funds. 
1508. Defense Health Program. 
1509. Military personnel. 
1510. Iraq Freedom Fund. 
1511. Classified programs. 
1512. Treatment as additional authorizations. 
1513. Transfer authority. 
1514. Availability of funds. 
Subtitle B—Personnel Provisions 
1521. Increase in active Army and Marine Corps strength levels. 
1522. Additional authority for increases of Army and Marine Corps active duty 
end strengths for fiscal years 2007 through 2009. 
1523. Military death gratuity enhancement. 
1524. Permanent prohibition against requiring certain injured members to pay 
for meals provided by military treatment facilities. 
1525. Permanent authority to provide travel and transportation allowances for 
dependents to visit hospitalized members injured in combat oper-
ation or combat zone. 
1526. Permanent increase in length of time dependents of certain deceased mem-
bers may continue to occupy military family housing or receive 
basic allowance for housing. 
1527. Availability of special pay for members during rehabilitation from combat- 
related injuries. 
1528. Allowance to cover monthly deduction from basic pay for Servicemembers’ 
Group Life Insurance coverage for members serving in Oper-
ation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom. 
Subtitle C—Matters Involving Support Provided by Foreign Nations 
1531. Reimbursement of certain coalition nations for support provided to United 
States military operations.
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Subtitle A—General Increases 
SEC. 1501. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this title is to authorize emergency ap-
propriations for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 
2006 to provide funds for additional costs due to Operation 
Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. Funds 
authorized for appropriation in this title are available 
upon the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 1502. ARMY PROCUREMENT. 
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2006 for procurement accounts of the Army in 
amounts as follows: 
(1) For weapons and tracked combat vehicles, 
$574,627,000. 
(2) For ammunition, $105,700,000. 
(3) For other procurement, $1,945,350,000. 
SEC. 1503. NAVY AND MARINE CORPS PROCUREMENT. 
(a) NAVY.—Funds are hereby authorized to be appro-
priated for fiscal year 2006 for procurement accounts for 
the Navy in amounts as follows: 
(1) For weapons procurement, $36,800,000. 
(2) For other procurement, $15,300,000. 
(b) MARINE CORPS.—Funds are hereby authorized to 
be appropriated for fiscal year 2006 for procurement for 
the Marine Corps in the amount of $445,400,000.
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(c) NAVY AND MARINE CORPS AMMUNITION.—Funds 
are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 
2006 for procurement of ammunition for the Navy and the 
Marine Corps in the amount of $144,721,000. 
SEC. 1504. DEFENSE-WIDE ACTIVITIES PROCUREMENT. 
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2006 for the procurement account for Defense-wide 
procurement in the amount of $103,900,000. 
SEC. 1505. RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUA-
TION, DEFENSE-WIDE ACTIVITIES. 
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2006 for the Department of Defense for research, 
development, test and evaluation, Defense-wide, in the 
amount of $75,000,000. 
SEC. 1506. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE. 
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2006 for the use of the Armed Forces for expenses, 
not otherwise provided for, for operation and maintenance, 
in amounts as follows: 
(1) For the Army, $20,305,001,000. 
(2) For the Navy, $1,838,000,000. 
(3) For the Marine Corps, $1,791,800,000. 
(4) For the Air Force, $3,195,352,000. 
(5) For Defense-wide, $2,870,333,000. 
(6) For the Army National Guard, $159,500,000.
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(7) For the Army Reserve, $26,400,000. 
SEC. 1507. DEFENSE WORKING CAPITAL FUNDS. 
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2006 for the Defense Working Capital Fund in the 
amount of $1,700,000,000. 
SEC. 1508. DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM. 
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the 
Department of Defense for fiscal year 2006 for expenses, not 
otherwise provided for, for the Defense Health Program in 
the amount of $846,000,000, for Operation and Mainte-
nance. 
SEC. 1509. MILITARY PERSONNEL. 
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 
Department of Defense for military personnel accounts for 
fiscal year 2006 a total of $9,390,010,000. 
SEC. 1510. IRAQ FREEDOM FUND. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Funds are herby authorized to be 
appropriated for fiscal year 2006 for the account of the Iraq 
Freedom Fund in amount of $1,000,000,000, to remain 
available for transfer to other accounts in this title until 
April 30, 2006. Amounts of authorization so transferred 
shall be merged with, and be made available for, the same 
purposes as the authorization to which transferred. 
(b) NOTICE TO CONGRESS.—A transfer may be made 
from the Iraq Freedom Fund only after the Secretary of
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Defense notifies the congressional defense subcommittees 
with respect to the proposed transfer in writing not less 
than five days before the transfer is made. 
SEC. 1511. CLASSIFIED PROGRAMS. 
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
year 2006 for classified programs the amount of 
$2,500,000,000. 
SEC. 1512. TREATMENT AS ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATIONS. 
The amounts authorized to be appropriated by this 
title are in addition to amounts otherwise authorized to be 
appropriated by this Act. 
SEC. 1513. TRANSFER AUTHORITY. 
(a) AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER AUTHORIZATIONS.— 
(1) AUTHORITY.—Upon determination by the 
Secretary of Defense that such action is necessary in 
the national interest, the Secretary may transfer 
amounts of authorizations made available to the De-
partment of Defense in this title for fiscal year 2006 
between any such authorizations for that fiscal year 
(or any subdivisions thereof). Amounts of authoriza-
tions so transferred shall be merged with and be 
available for the same purposes as the authorization 
to which transferred. 
(2) LIMITATION.—The total amount of author-
izations that the Secretary may transfer under the
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authority 
of 
this 
section 
may 
not 
exceed 
$3,000,000,000. The transfer authority provided in 
this section is in addition to any other transfer au-
thority available to the Secretary of Defense. 
(b) LIMITATIONS.—The authority provided by this sec-
tion to transfer authorizations— 
(1) may only be used to provide authority for 
items that have a higher priority than the items from 
which authority is transferred; 
(2) may not be used to provide authority for an 
item that has been denied authorization by Congress; 
and 
(3) may not be combined with the authority 
under section 1001. 
(c) EFFECT ON AUTHORIZATION AMOUNTS.—A trans-
fer made from one account to another under the authority 
of this section shall be deemed to increase the amount au-
thorized for the account to which the amount is transferred 
by an amount equal to the amount transferred. 
(d) NOTICE TO CONGRESS.—A transfer may be made 
under the authority of this section only after the Secretary 
of Defense— 
(1) consults with the chairmen and ranking 
members of the congressional defense committees with 
respect to the proposed transfer; and