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B-199035 1 (1981-07-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjng0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1 WTHE CO MP ~ c E E E A DECISiON OF THE UNITED STATES 9. WASHINGTON. D. C. 20548 FILE: B-199035 DATE: July 1, 1981 MATTER OF: Travel Incident to Change in Home Port DIGEST: When the home port of a ship or other mobile unit to which a Navy member is being trans- ferred is in the process of being changed the member may accompany his dependents or otherwise travel to the newly designated home port prior to reporting to the ship or other mobile unit if that travel is author- ized by amendment to the Joint Travel Regu- lations provided the travel is necessary to assist in the transportation of the member's dependents or property. This action is in response to a request from the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Installations) as to whether Volume 1 of the Joint Travel Regulations (1 JTR) may be amended to cover a particular situation involving Navy members assigned to ships staffs and other mobile units which have home ports. When such members are ordered on a permanent change of station to a ship, staff or mobile unit after a home port change for that unit is announced, the proposal is to permit the member to travel to the new home port to assist his dependents to relocate there and then report for duty at the location of the unit, all at Government expense. This matter has been assigned Control No. 80-23 by the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee. The question in the present case is whether 1 JTR may be amended to authorize a member to travel at Government expense to a newly designated home port to assist in depend- ents' relocation and continue at Government expense to travel to the location of the ship or mobile unit at the old home port. The answer to the question is yes. In 57 Comp. Gen. 198, the question was whether 1 JTR could be amended to permit a member, who is on temporary duty away from his permanent station and who has received permanent change of station orders, making that station his permanent station, to travel at Government expense to his old duty station for purposes of assisting his dependents to relocate. In authorizing the amendment, we stated generally that since changes of duty assignments _74,5~ ti- d64 rer' ri m 7/Az'I C

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