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IDECISION ':
FILE: B-199728
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MATTER OF:
Special Agent
OSI,, USAF
DIGEST:
Military member, who is an 081 Special Agent,
ordinarily would have been entitled to live
off base and re eive basic allowance for
quarters (BAQ Ugid not do 'so because he
was assigned Government quarters incident.
to his duties as an OSI Special Agent-perform-
ing anin-est-igation. In this case, although
he was assigned-Government quarters pursuant
to his duties as an undercover investigator
and not because-of his basic military status,
he is denied BAQ as he incurred no expense
for privately financed housing during the
time he occupied Government quarters.
This action is in response to a requ.est for an advance
decision from the.Chief, Accounting and. Finance, Headquarters
63d Military Airlift Wing (MAC), Norton Air Force Base,
California, concerning the propriety of. paynnt of basic
allowance for quarters (EAQ) to , an
enlisted member serving as a Special-Agent, Air Force Office
of Special Investigations (OSI). This request for a decision
was approved by the Department of Defense Military Pay and
Allowance Committee as Air Force submission number DO-AF--1350.
The question presented is as follows:
* * * [W]hether or not a military member
without dependents is entitled to BAQ at
the without dependents rate while occupying
Air Force bachelor housing incident to his
duties as an OSI special agent.
Special Agent. arrived at Norton Air Force Base
on October 12,-1979, on permanent change of assignment.
orders. In accord with the standard military procedure of
not quartering OSI Special Agents with other military per-
sonnel, Special Agent would have been given per-
mission to live off base. However, he did not procure off
base housingi as immediately upon his arrival at Norton, he
was assigned to participate in an OSI undercover investiga-
tion. To carry out his duties, he was given the identity
of Senior Airman and-he was assigned single Government
quarters. He occupied these quarters-in his capacity as
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THE COMPTRO3LLER GENERAL22
OF T HE U NITEID, 8TATES
WASHINGTON. D.C. 2054.8'
DATE: May 8, 1981](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadvhb0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)