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(Travel by Coast Guard Officials, Their lives, and Air Fcrce
Officers]. FPCD-78-59; 5-192053. August 18, 1978. 5 Ep. *
enclosure (2 pp.).
Report to Rep. Les Aspin; by H. L. Krieger, Director, Pederal
Personnel and Compensation Div.
Issue area: Personnel lanaqement and Copensaticn (200).
Contact: Federal Personnel and Compensatic Div.
Budqet Function: National Defense: Defense-related activities
(054).
Orqanization Concerned: Department of the Air Force; etartaent
of Transportation; Coast Guard.
Conressional Relevance: Rep. Leas Ason.
authority; Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1976 (1 L.
9e-157). HAC Regulation 55-1.
Concer's wvre expressed abost travel throughout the
Pacific in mid-Aaqust 1977 by high-ranking Coast Guard
officials, some ef whom were acconpanied by their wives. Travel
requlations state that written orders by ccopetent authority are
required for official travel and that travel may be authorized
for spouses only ander certain limited circumstances. Coast
Guard District and area Commanders made a total of 74 trips
aboard Coast Guard aircraft in 1977. and their spouses
accompanied them on 24 trips. For only 6 of the 24 trips were
spousess travel authorizations approved at a higher level.
Althouqh the txip in question was abcard a Government plane and
it cop-ld be claimed that the presence of guests and spouses did
not atd to the cost, the possibility cf having spouses accompany
a trip at little extra cost could influence the decision as to
whether the trip should be made. The authority for approving
spouse travel should be retained by the head of an agency or the
deputy. A review of allegations of illegal travel by
hiqh-rankinq .3ir Force officers indicated that some travel did
tako place without the proper documentation as required ky
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