As your brigade is preparing to deploy to Iraq, your brigade commander is approached by the local chapter of "We Like to Help," a NGO that collects educational material to send to impoverished foreign countries to help their school system. In keeping with their mission, the NGO has collected two pallets of school supplies for Iraqi children. Your brigade
As your brigade is preparing to deploy to Iraq, your brigade commander is approached by the local chapter of "We Like to Help," a NGO that collects educational material to send to impoverished foreign countries to help their school system. In keeping with their mission, the NGO has collected two pallets of school supplies for Iraqi children. Your brigade commander is sure she can find the space. Can she transport the supplies?
a. Not directly. "We Like to Help" must properly apply with USAID, who then coordinates with DSCA for either funded or unfunded transportation.
b. Of course! There’s room and it only makes sense.
c. No. DoD may never provide transportation of NGO relief supplies.
d. Yes, under 10 U.S.C. § 402, any DoD Commander has the authority to approve the transportation of supplies on a "space-available" basis.