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B-212088 1 (1983-08-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlgn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-212088 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF TIE UNITEO STATES WAS H I N D.TO N. 0.C. 20548 DATE: August 2, 1983 MATTER OF: Colonel Anthony A. Borskt, USA, Retired Upon his retirement in Frankfurt, Germany, an Army physician decided that return travel to the United States by air was medically contra- indicated for himself and his wife. Passenger service was not available on vessels of United States registry, so they returned by way of a vessel of foreign registry. In the absence of an official authorization for surface travel, reimbursement for the transoceanic travel of the retired member and his dependent is limited to the cost of Government, if avail- able, or Government-procured air transporta- tion, whichever is less. Colonel Anthony A. Borski, U.S.A., Retired, appeals the March 9, 1983 settlement of the Claims Group, which denied his claim for transportation expenses incurred in travel by foreign registry vessel. We find that Colonel Borski's travel entitlement based on the present claim is limited to the constructive travel costs by Military Airlift Command for his and his wife's trans- oceanic travel. Colonel Borski retired from the Army on June 1, 1981, at Frankfurt, Germany, where he had been sta- tioned. His separation travel orders authorized his and his dependent's return travel to the United States at Government expense. Colonel Borski, a medical doctor, states that in view of his then recent coronary artery occlusion and the cardiac disease of his wife, he decided that as health precautions, surface travel was indicated for them. On May 31, 1981, he and his wife departed Frankfurt and traveled to Southhampton, England, where they embarked on a surface vessel of British registry and traveled to New York. From New York they traveled to their home of selection in Colorado by private automo- bile. They have been paid a mileage allowance for the distance from McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey (the usual Government airport of debarkation), to their home in Colorado. Colonel Borski also seeks reimbursement for his and his wife's transoceanic travel in the amount of $2,112. DIGEST:

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