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Cost of Traihing Granted to Foreign Students under the Military
Assistance Program. ID-76-79; B-163582. May 17, 1977. 49 pp.
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: International Economic and military Programs (600).
Contact: International Div.
Budget Function: National Defense: Military Assistance (052);
International Affairs: Conduct of Foreign Afairs (152).
Organization Concerned: Department of Defense; Department of
State.
Covgressional Relevance: House Committee on International
Relations; Senate Committee on Foreign Relations; Congress.
Authority: Foreign Military Sales Act of 1968. Foreign
Assistance Act of 1561, as amended. B-159835 (1975).
8-165731 (1976). 3.R. 13680 (95th Cong.).
The costs of providing grant-aid traiuing to foreign
studerts under the hilitary Assistance Program have been
understated, and the method of reporting costs has been
inconsistent. Findings/Conclusions: The fiscal year 1976
program provided training to 6,280 students from 43 countries at
a recorded cost of about $23 million. New costing procedures,
which will more eccurately account for training costs, ere to
become effective in fiscal year 1978; but costs will continue to
be understated because the new procedures do not provide for
accounting for all related costs. Recommendations: To improve
cost controls, reduce costs, and make the program more
effective, the Secretaries of Defense and State should. (1)
record all costs of training foreign military personnel,
including salaries and allowances of military personnel engaged
in their training; (2) have recipient countries assume
responsibility for paying transportation and living allowances
to their trainees except when justified for specific economic or
political reasons; (3) stress the need for foreign nationals to
better use English language training facilities; and (4)
discontinue U.S. maintenance and operation of the Army and Air
Force Canal Zone military assistance schools through
internationalization or closure, with the merging of essential
programs with U.S. military programs in the United States as
soon as practicable. (Author/SC)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaacgn0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)