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089044 1 (1976-10-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacvbb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE O oY REGIONAL OFFICE SUITE 300-D, 2420 W 26TH AVENUE DENVER, COLORADO 80211 October 1, 1976 Commander Air Reserve Personnel Center 7300 East First Avenue Denver, Colorado 80280 Dear Sir: During a review of pay and allowances of Air Force Reserve officers ordered to extended active dutywe observed that the Air Reserve Personnel Center (ARPC) was preparing certain Special Orders in a manner that allowed pay and allowances to start 1 day earlier than we believe was necessary to comply with governing Executive orders. Also, many Special Orders did not contain a specific date for reservists to report to their first duty station A specific reporting date is essential to determining when entitlement to pay begins. The details of these two problems follow: SPECIAL ORDERS ALLOWED PAY AND ALLOWANCES TO START 1 DAY EARLIER THAN NECESSARY Executive Order No. 10153, August 17, 1950, as amended by Execu- tive Order No. 10649, December 28, 1955, contemplates that the time required to perform travel from a member:'s home to the first duty sta- tion is to be included as active duty The Executive Order provides that, when travel by private conveyance is authorized, the travel time included as active duty shall be computed on the basis of 1 day for each 300 miles traveled, and 1 day for each fraction of 300 miles in excess of 150 miles. The effective date of pay and allowances? therefore, is the date a reservist would be required to begin travel to arrive at his first duty station on the desired reporting date. When reservists were ordered to report to their first duty station on a specific day, but not earlier than 0800 and not later than 1600, 2000, or 2400, the ARPC considered that day as a day of duty rather than a day of travel. This had the effect of allowing reservists to depart from their home- -and to establish the starting date of pay and allowances- -1 day earlier than would be required had the reporting

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