AUTHORIZATION FOR INCREASE IN ACTIVE-DUTY END STRENGTHS.

SEC. 432. AUTHORIZATION FOR INCREASE IN ACTIVE-DUTY END STRENGTHS. (a) Authorization.— There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1996 for military personnel the sum of $112,000,000. Any amount appropriated pursuant to this section shall be allocated, in such manner as the Secretary of Defense prescribes, among appropriations for active-component military personnel for that fiscal year and shall be available only to increase the number of members of the Armed Forces on active duty during that fiscal year (compared to the number of members that would be on active duty but for such appropriation). (b) Effect on End Strengths.— The end-strength authorizations in section 401 shall each be deemed to be increased by such number as necessary to take account of additional members of the Armed Forces authorized by the Secretary of Defense pursuant to subsection (a).