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B-197463 1 (1980-03-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjfg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SL L. , ' ,COMPTROLLER GEZNERAL OF TH1E UNITED $TATES WAS ;41NC3T011, D.C. 1044 4 B-197463 Parch 3,1980 Ila 4? ,Pub21, 8, The J!onorable Strom Thurmond United States Senate Dear Senator Thurmond: Reference is made to your recent correspondence, with enclosure, reg irding the request of your c'onstitu- ent, Lieutenant Colonel Donald V. Andersen, USMC, for assistance In determining whether he should have been entitled to an early return of his so) from Japan to the United States at Government expense to attend college. According to Colonel Andersen, he was denied authoritation for an early return of his dependent to attend college. However, his dependent was authorized Government space available transportation with a 66-pound baggage limitation. Colonel Andersen Indi- cates that he understood that the relevant regulations would have enabled him to have his son return to the United States on space-required travel but that one of our recent decisions changed this. The foliqwing information is being supplied to yo. so that you jany be responsive to the request of your constituent. The entitlement i;o the'transportation of dependents between the UnitedStaites an) overseas at Government expense is proided by law, dpecifically section 406 of title 37, UnIted States Code (1976), which generally pro- vides that ouch tra'psportation' ,ts authorized when the Member is ordered to make a chAncje of permanent station. A~cordingly, ordinarily a depeniiont does not have a right 'to a return, trip to the ri'itod States at Govern- mant'oxpense unless itj Is in connection with a change of permanent stationby the member.. However, sec- t'ions 406(e) and 406(h) of title 37 provide limited exceptions to the general rule. Section 406(e) permits Att~ , ,-. ~. i

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