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FPCD-80-57 1 (1980-07-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabaso0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE UNIEDWASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FEDERAL PERSONNEL AND COMPENSATION DIVISION JULY 3, 1980 B-197168 I~I II I II I I The Honorable Harold Brown 112710 The Secretary of Defense Dear Mr. Secretary: Subject: Faster Processing of Discharges For Adverse Reasons Could Save Millions of Dollars (FPCD-80-57) We examined time frames and procedures used to discharge service members for adverse reasons in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. On the basis of our work, we believe that the Department of Defense needs to promptly (1) establish and enforce time frames for processing adverse separations and (2) review and modify where necessary the services' different and sometimes inconsistent discharge procedures. In our report entitled Military Discharge Policies and Practices Result in Wide Disparities: Congressional Review Is Needed (FPCD-80-13, Jan. 15, 1980), we recommended that the services establish time guidelines for processing admin- istrative discharges. In responding to the report, the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics) agreed with the intent of our recommendation to establish time guidelines and said he would study it further. However, no formal actions have been initiated. Faster processing of discharges is possible without reducing service members' rights, and it would (1) save pay and allowances which would otherwise be paid to serv- ice members awaiting discharge and to commanders processing them and (2) reduce the time that unproductive and poten- tially disruptive service members remain on active duty. Over 75,000 people were discharged from the services for adverse reasons in fiscal year 1979. The potential savings from faster processing can be substantial. For example, we recently estimated that in 1977 it cost an additional $27.3 million in pay and allowances for members (964159)

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