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B-210467 1 (1983-09-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlhn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: o THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION . OF THE UNITEO BTATEU WASHINGTON. O.C. 20546 FILE: B-210467 DATE: September 12, 1983 MATTER OF: Lieutenant Colonel Bruce L. Harjung, USMC DIGEST: Notwithstanding a Marine Corps regulation authorizing a mileage allowance and per diem from an alternate aerial port of debarkation to a new permanent duty sta- tion incident to a transfer from outside the United States to the United States, for the purpose of recovering a relocated privately owned vehicle, the member's entitlement is limited to allowances based on travel from the appropriate aerial port of debarkation serving the new station to the new station, in the absence of an amendment to the Joint Travel Regulations. Is a mileage allowance and per diem authorized for a member's travel from an aerial port of debarkation to a new station when incident to a permanent change of station from overseas the member selects a different aerial port of debarkation than the one serving his new station? Addi- tionally, if the member arrives at the aerial port of debarkation serving his new station is he entitled to the allowances to the selected aerial port of debarkation? The answer to both questions is no, as will be explained. These questions were submitted by Major M. K. Chetkovich, USMC, Disbursing Officer, Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton, California, and have been assigned Control No. 83-2, by the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee. Lieutenant Colonel Bruce L. Harjung, USMC, was ordered to make a permanent change of station from Okinawa to Camp Pendleton, California, in July 1982. Los Angeles Inter- national Airport is the appropriate aerial port of debarka- tion for Camp Pendleton. Apparently, it is Marine Corps policy to allow a member under such circumstances to select an aerial port of debarkation nearest the place where his relocated privately owned vehicle is located. In Colonel Harjung's case, his family and his privately owned vehicle were at Quantico, Virginia. As a result he chose

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