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B-207841 1 (1982-07-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkmz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: LNEC 101 Oh THU COMPTOLL, A? OP THU UNITL!D EN ERAL STAT U WABHINCTON, 0,o0. 20548 B-207841 OATEi July 20, MATTER OF: Technical Rusekoff, Sergeant Frederick V. Sr., USAF, Retired DI3Et'11': A retired service member who disap- peared ond it; believed drowned accrued no retired pay after the date he disap- peared. Although his detoignated bene- ficiaries obtained atcourt decree declaring him dead, the decree did not establish the date of death. Since retired pay accrues only while the service member lives and the facts here indicate ho drowned on or about the day he dibappared, the benefici- aries' claims for retired pay accrued subsequent to the date of his disap- pearance may not be allowed. This case concerns the claims of the designated benefi- ' aiaries of Technical Sergeant Frederick V. Rusokoff, Sr., USAF, Retired, for any unpaid retired pay accrued by him, Sergeant Rusokoff disappeared from an Oregon beach in mid- August 1975, and has not been seen since then. Because retired pay accrues only during the life of a retired member of the Armed Forces and because the facts indicate that Sergeant Rusokoff died on or about the date ho disappeared, we may not allow the the claims for retired pa., that he would have accrued after the date of his diapparance, It appears that Sergeant Rusokoff, while a resident of Maryland, was on a trip to the Western United Ltates in 1975 when he disappeared. According to a special report of the Lincoln County (Oregon) sheriff's Department, Sergeant Rusokoff was last seen on August 14, 1975, near Alsea Bay, Oregon. State police found his neatly folded clothing on the beach alongside a trail of bare footpeints leading into the bay. Although his body has never been found, police noted that similar disappearances had been recorded in the area and concluded that Sergeant Rusokoff probably drowned. At the time of his disappearance Sergeant Rusokoff was receiving retired pay from the Air Force. Apparently word of his disappoatance rtached the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center in September 1976, whereupon the Air Force discontinued Sergeant Rusokoff's retired pay, and recalled 'JN ,I FILE: I1013 1982

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