Appendix A to Part 246 - Mission
32:2.1.1.1.43.0.1.8.16 : Appendix A
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 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.