[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR246 App A]

[Page 553-554]

                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE

        CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE (CONTINUED)

PART 246_STARS AND STRIPES (S&S) NEWSPAPER AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS--Table of

                  Sec. Appendix A to Part 246--Mission

    A. General. The Stars and Strips (S&S) organizations shall
contribute to the overall U.S. joint-defense mission overseas by
providing news and information for the Armed Forces internal audiences
serving in a Unified Command area of responsibility, or deployed in
support of designated joint-Service exercises, contingency operations,
or situations of armed conflict. That shall be done through the
operation of a daily newspaper and resale activities of commercial
publications (primarily through the S&S bookstores).
    B. Newspapers. The Stars and Stripes coverage of news and
information makes possible the continued exercise of the
responsibilities of citizenship by DoD personnel and their families
overseas. The Stars and Stripes are to be published overseas during
peacetime, contingency operations, and armed conflicts. They shall
provide the same

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range of international, national, and regional news and opinion from
commercial sources, as is provided by newspapers in the United States.
Additionally, to better serve their readers, the Stars and Stripes shall
pay special attention to news of local, host-country conditions relevant
to their audiences. They shall provide, through their reporters and
bureaus, news of local military communities within the theater and news
of the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense, the Military
Services, and theater operations not usually available to readers from
outside commercial sources. The Stars and Stripes are to serve the
interests of their overseas DoD readership as do prominent commercial
daily newspapers throughout the United States.
    C. S&S Bookstores and Retail Operations. The S&S shall serve
readers' needs for contemporary news and information by providing a
broad selection of resale commercial publications of interest to their
customers at the most reasonable prices, either directly in the S&S
bookstores or through other authorized sales outlets at their discretion
throughout the Unified Command designated geographic area. The S&S shall
have the same authorities and rights for resale commercial publications
that the military exchange services have for other nonsubsistence goods
and services.
    D. S&S Job Shop Printing. The S&S are authorized to operate job shop
printing, to include book publishing and/or printing, within the Unified
Commands for U.S. military community newspapers, military organizations,
nonappropriated fund (NAF) instrumentalities (NAFI), Morale, Welfare,
and Recreation (MWR) activities, private organizations of interest and
concern to the Department of Defense, as designated by 32 CFR part 212,
DoD employees and their immediate families, and others designated by the
Unified Command.
    E. War-Time Mission and Contingency Operations. The S&S shall
provide the Stars and Stripes on a daily basis for transportation to,
and distribution in, the designated area of operations, as requested and
funded by the responsible Unified Command Commander-in-Chief (CINC), and
supported by the respective Unified Command owning the S&S organization.
The Unified Commands shall plan for required airlift on a timely basis
and intratheater distribution of daily Stars and Stripes newspapers as
part of their operational planning documents. Intratheater distribution
and required airlift of the Stars and Stripes shall be the
responsibility of the supported Unified Command CINC and respective
component commands, who shall reimburse the S&S for nonresale issues on
a per-issue basis. When deployed to an area of operations, the Stars and
Stripes reporters shall operate in the same manner as commercial media
representatives. The deployed Stars and Stripes reporters shall be
eligible for participation in DoD and command-sponsored regional and
local media pools.