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B-215123 1 (1984-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmaz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DEClSION OF THE UNITEO STATES WASHINGTON. 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-215123 DATE: December 4, 1984 MATTER OF: Petty Officer Douglas W. Smith, USN DIGEST: A provision of the Uniformed Services Pay Act of 1981 authorized a new travel allow- ance for service members transferred over- seas to reimburse them for the expenses of taking their automobiles to and from ports of shipment. The Congress did not intend that this provision be interpreted to allow reimbursement for trips taken over unnecessarily circuitous routes to and from ports selected for personal conven- ience, for example, to accommodate travel to a desired leave location. Hence, a transferred Navy petty officer who was ordered to proceed from California to Charleston, South Carolina, to board a military flight to a new duty station in Panama, and who could have delivered his automobile to the port in Charleston for overseas shipment, may not be allowed additional travel allowances predicated on his election to take leave en route in Massachusetts and to deliver his automo- bile instead to a port in New Jersey. Petty Officer (AMS2) Douglas W. Smith, USN, claims additional travel allowances for delivering his automobile to a port for overseas shipment during a permanent change- of-station move he made from the United States to Panama in 1983.1/ Given the particular circumstances involved, we deny the claim. This action is in response to a request from Mr. M. Jackson, the Disbursing Officer of the Navy Personnel Support Activity Detachment Panama, for an advance decision on the propriety of processing a supplemental travel voucher submitted by Petty Officer Smith for payment. The request was forwarded here by endorsement from the Per Diem, Travel and Transporta- tion Allowance Committee after being assigned Committee Control No. 84-8. O3o117

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