---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 16166"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "16166"
heading: "Administration of program"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/16166"
units:
  - "Subtitle E — Reserve Components"
  - "Part IV — Training for Reserve Components and Educational Assistance Programs"
  - "Chapter 1607 — Educational Assistance for Reserve Component Members Supporting Contingency Operations and Certain Other Operations"
---

# §16166. Administration of program

- (a) **Administration.—** Educational [assistance](/usc/10/2005.md?p=d-2) under this chapter shall be provided through the Department of Veterans Affairs, under agreements to be entered into by the Secretary of Defense, and by the Secretary of Homeland Security, with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Such agreements shall include administrative procedures to ensure the prompt and timely transfer of [funds](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) from the [Secretary concerned](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-9) to the Department of Veterans Affairs for the making of payments under this chapter.
- (b) **Program Management.—** Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the provisions of sections [503](/usc/38/503.md), [511](/usc/38/511.md), [3470](/usc/38/3470.md), [3471](/usc/38/3471.md), [3474](/usc/38/3474.md), [3476](/usc/38/3476.md), [3482(g)](/usc/38/3482.md?p=g), [3483](/usc/38/3483.md), and [3485](/usc/38/3485.md) of title 38 and the provisions of subchapters I and II of [chapter 36](/usc/10/chstA-ptII-ch36.md) of such title (with the exception of sections [3686(a)](/usc/38/3686.md?p=a), [3687](/usc/38/3687.md), and [3692](/usc/38/3692.md)) shall be applicable to the provision of educational [assistance](/usc/10/2005.md?p=d-2) under this chapter. The term “eligible veteran” and the term “person”, as used in those provisions, shall be deemed for the purpose of the application of those provisions to this chapter to refer to a person eligible for educational [assistance](/usc/10/2005.md?p=d-2) under this chapter.
- (c) **Flight Training.—** The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may approve the pursuit of flight training (in addition to a course of flight training that may be approved under [section 3680A(b) of title 38](/usc/38/3680A.md?p=b)) by an individual entitled to educational [assistance](/usc/10/2005.md?p=d-2) under this chapter if—
  - (1) such training is generally accepted as necessary for the attainment of a recognized vocational objective in the field of aviation;
  - (2) the individual possesses a valid private pilot certificate and meets, on the day the [member](/usc/10/1408.md?p=a-5) begins a course of flight training, the medical requirements necessary for a commercial pilot certificate; and
  - (3) the flight school courses meet Federal Aviation Administration standards for such courses and are approved by the Federal Aviation Administration and the [State](/usc/10/10001.md) approving [agency](/usc/10/4701.md?p=g-1).
- (d) **Trust Fund.—** Amounts for payments for benefits under this chapter shall be derived from the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense Education Benefits [Fund](/usc/10/2871.md?p=6) under [section 2006 of this title](/usc/10/2006.md).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title V, § 527(a), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 1893.)