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B-195586 1 (1980-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadikg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: T Aq FE -1,-P0LLE7qG~ a~ a01T11IT S4ATES \VSHNC , N m 0C. 20~~ FILE: B-195586 DATE: July 15, 1980 MATTER OF: Dewain Blessinger, CW3, USA DIGEST: A member may not be reimbursed for travel expenses incurred due to extra travel to obtain passports for a permanent change of station where no travel orders are issued authorizing such extra travel. Also, the charge to leave for the time the member spent obtaining the passports is a matter within the discretion of the service and will not be disturbed. This is in response to an appeal from a settlement of our Claims Division dated June 26, 1979. The issues presented ar whether a member of the Army should be reimbursed or travel expenses incurred for extra trave Iasington, D.C., to obtain passports for his deien ents, and whether leave was properly charged for the 2 days the member spent obtaining the passports. *Since no travel orders were issued authorizing a trip to Washington, D.C., travel expenses may not be reimbursed and leave charges may be allowed to stand as a proper administrative determination. The record shows that Chief Warrant Officer Dewain Blessinger, USA, is claiming reimbursement for the travel and is requesting restoration of leave charged incident to a permanent change of station from Fort Stewart, Georgia, to Berlin, Germany. On May 23, 1978, while on leave prior to departure for Berlin, Mr. Blessinger was notified that the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., had never received the paperwork for his dependents' pass- ports. In order to obtain the passports in time for a port call of June 9, 1978, Mr. Blessinger traveled with his dependents to Washington, D.C., where he spent May 24 and May 25, 1978. Mr. Blessinger alleges that. he requested an amendment to his orders allowing him to stop at the Pentagon but this request was apparently denied.. Mr. Blessinger's claim for reimbursement of the expenses of his stay in Washington, D.C., was denied by our Claims Division and annual leave charges for May 24 and May 25, 1978, were not disturbed.

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