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B-207840 1 (1983-01-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkux0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~ '~.THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL - OECISION OF THE UNIT O STATES WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-207840 DATE: January 10, 1983 MATTER OF: Lieutenant Colonel John A. Swallow, USAR, Retired DIGEST: Army Reserve member ordered to active duty with his consent for a period of more than 20 weeks at the same location is at his permanent duty station and not entitled to per diem while there. The per diem pay- ments he received for several periods of temporary duty at locations other than the permanent duty station are all the per diem he was entitled to receive. Lieutenant Colonel John A. Swallow, USAR, Retired, requests reconsideration of our Claims Division's March 12, 1971 denial of his claim for per diem for the period Octo- ber 11, 1968, through June 30, 1969. The claim was disal- lowed since members of the Reserve components called to active duty for a period of 20 or more weeks are considered to be at their permanent duty station while at the station to which assigned, and no per diem is payable for this period of active duty except when they are away from such permanent station on temporary duty as evidenced by competent orders. The denial is sustained. Colonel Swallow was ordered to active duty with his consent by Letter Order No. A-10-570, U.S. Army Administra- tion Center, St. Louis, Missouri, dated October 21, 1968, for the period October 11, 1968, to on or about June 28, 1969. Following an initial assignment to Fort Sheridan, Illinois, to which he was not authorized travel, he was assigned to U.S. Army Advisory Group (USAR), Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, with duty station at USAR Center, Saginaw, Michigan. His orders also specified that he was not entitled to movement of household goods or travel of dependents while on this tour of active duty. Colonel Swallow based his claim originally on grounds that he should be paid per diem while on duty because his dependents were not authorized to accompany him to his duty station. In his request for reconsideration of the dis- allowance, he contends that he was required to rent quarters and live on the civilian economy because Government quarters AO I-

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