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B-195604 1 (1979-09-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhqm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION ( OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: B-195604 DATE:September 28, 1979 MATTER OF: Technical Sergeant Michael J. Mahoney, USAF (Retired) DIGEST: 1. There is no authority for a dependent to travel at Government expense to a service member's last duty station under his permanent change-of- station orders, where the sole purpose of the member's transfer is retirement processing and he has no intention of establishing a permanent home at or near the last duty station, since a member is not entitled to have his dependents accompany him at Government expense on a tempo- rary assignment for personal convenience to a place where they do not intend to establish a permanent home. 2. A service member was transferred from Greece to McGuire AFB, N.J., for retirement processing, and he selected Taiwan as his home of selection upon retirement. He is entitled to his travel at Government expense from Greece to McGuire and then to Taiwan. However, he is not entitled to his wife's travel from Taiwan to the United States and return to Taiwan because she was residing in Taiwan when his retirement orders were issued. The issues presented in this case are whether Yonkers, New York, was Sergeant Mahoney's home of selection upon retirement and whether his dependent wife was entitled to travel from Taiwan, Republic of China (R.O.C.) to Yonkers, New York, and return at Government expense in the circumstances described. The answer to both ques- tions is no. The issues arise upon an appeal from a settlement of our Claims Division dated June 12, 1979. Technical Sergeant Michael J. Mahoney, USAF, while stationed at the United States Air Force Hospital in Iraklion, Greece, received notification by special orders dated January 18, 1977, that he would be retired effective August 1, 1977. He was serving an unaccompanied tour in a restricted area. The designated location

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