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B-180570 1 (1974-05-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaegm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A iAce,,; Chkir an C m iti s nl A ons UPTH NITED ST - WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 S/s rutELree J a M1,Y7,w 1 B- 180 570Sr The Honorable George II. Mahon (Chairman, Committee on Approp)riations Irouse of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Qqou( As requested in your letter of January 31, 1974, we reviewed ~ enR fr Ia ~I~4leQ~~Iitme i imlitary 7 pQ.=Dva,,to determine (1) whether the payments were mandatory or permissive, (2) the annual cost of the payments, and (3) the amount of travel actually performed. The payments are called reenlistm ent travel payments in the Air Force, cash payments on reenlistment in the Navy and Marine Corps, and travel paid without performance in the Army. In this report we refer to them as reenlistment travel payments. BACKGROUND For many years the Congress has authorized travel allowances or transportation to milithry personnel separated from the military serv- ices. This longstanding policy demonstrates the intent of the Congress to defray the expense encountered by a serviceman in returning to his home or to the place where he entered the service from civilian life. Currently the services pay a mileage allowance for the official distance between a serviceman's duty station at the time of separation and his home of record or place of entry on active duty, which includes the place of last enlistment, as he may elect. The services pay the allow- ance to officers and enlisted personnel actually separated and to enlisted p ,_:nn1 bo ,eljt tpe expiration of eimtr enistments. Officers who continue on active duty after completing a period of obligated service and enlisted personnel who reenlist more than 3 months befol'e the expiration of their enlistments do not receive a travel allowance. AUTHORITY FOR REENLISTMENT TRAVEL PAY MENTS Section 303(a) of the Career Compensation Act of 1949, as amended (37 U. S. C. 404), established the current authority for iatxmcnt tr. al ets. The act provides that, under regulations prescribed by the Secretaries of the military departments, travel allowances may be paid on a serviceman's separation or release from active duty from his last duty station to his home or the place from which he was called or ordered to active duty, whether he performs the travel or not. A provision relating to payment without regard to 1)erformance of travel (37 U. S. C. 404(f)), was included at the request of the Departinent of Defense (DOD). The purpose of the proposed provision was to sini- plify the administrative procedures involved in paying travel allowances to personnel who separate from the service. Rather than requiring BEST DOCUMENT AVAILABLE

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