PLAN REGARDING PROFESSIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION TEST PROGRAM FOR RESERVE COMPONENT OFFICERS OF THE ARMY.

SEC. 922. PLAN REGARDING PROFESSIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION TEST PROGRAM FOR RESERVE COMPONENT OFFICERS OF THE ARMY. (a) Plan for Test Program Required.—The Secretary of the Army shall prepare a plan for carrying out a test program to improve the provision of professional military education to reserve component officers of the Army by assigning or attaching such officers to an Army Reserve Forces school in an inactive duty status for the purpose of attending professional military education courses offered by the school. (b) Nature of Education.—The professional military education courses offered as part of such a test program should correspond to the courses offered at the Army Combined Arms and Services Staff School and the United States Army Command and General Staff College. (c) Report on Plan.—Not later than March 31, 1993, the Secretary of the Army shall submit to Congress a report that— (1) describes the most effective approach, as determined by the Secretary, for carrying out the test program outlined in the plan required under subsection (a); (2) describes the method by which reserve component officers of the Army would be selected to participate in the test program; 106 STAT. 2474 (3) identifies any legislation that would be required to implement the test program, such as the authorization of funds for the test program or the compensation of reserve component officers of the Army under section 206 of title 37, United States Code, who are selected to participate in the test program; and (4) indicates how the test program would be evaluated to determine the effect of the program on units of the Selected Reserve, the management of duty assignments in the Selected Reserve, and the capabilities of the Army Reserve Forces schools. (d) Reserve Component Officer of the Army Defined.—For purposes of this section, the term “reserve component officer of the Army” means an officer of the Army National Guard of the United States or the Army Reserve who is assigned to a unit of the Selected Reserve and is unable to attend professional military education courses while in the active service.