Operation and Maintenance, Air Force

Operation and Maintenance, Air Force For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the operation, maintenance, and administration of the Air Force, including the Air Force Reserve and the Air Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; operation, maintenance, and modification of aircraft and missiles; transportation of things; repair and maintenance of facilities; field printing plants; hire of passenger motor vehicles; recruiting advertising expenses; training and instruction of military personnel of the Air Force, including tuition and related expenses; pay, allowances, and travel expenses of contract surgeons; utility services for buildings erected at private cost as authorized by law (10 U.S.C. 9778), and buildings on military reservations authorized by Air Force regulations to be used for welfare and recreational purposes; rental of land or purchase of options to rent land without reference to section 3648, Revised Statutes, as amended, use or repair of private property, and other necessary expenses of combat maneuvers; civilian clothing not to exceed $40 in cost for each person upon each release from a military prison, each enlisted man discharged for unsuitability, inaptitude, or otherwise than honorably, each enlisted man sentenced by a civil court to confinement in a civil prison, and each enlisted man interned, or discharged without internment as an alien enemy; authorized issues of articles for use of applicants for enlistment and persons in military custody; exchange tees, and losses or deficiencies in the accounts of disbursing officers and their agents, as authorized by law; care of the dead; chaplain and other welfare and morale supplies and equipment; conduct of schoolrooms, service clubs, chapels,74 Stat. 343 and other instructional, entertainment, and welfare expenses for enlisted men and patients not otherwise provided for; awards and decorations; expenses of courts, boards, and commissions; expenses for inter-American cooperation as authorized for the Navy by section 7208 of title 10, United States Code, for Latin-American cooperation; industrial mobilization, including maintenance of reserve plants and equipment and procurement planning; special services by contract or otherwise; rations (including commutation thereof) for applicants for enlistment; and not to exceed $6,000,000 for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of the Air Force, and payments may be made on his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes, and his determination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government; $4,243,398,000, of which not to exceed $16,000,000 shall be available for the operation and maintenance of the Air Force Academy: Provided, That not to exceed $91,379,000 of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Air Force shall be available for departmental administration.