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B-210528 1 (1983-08-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlgu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: OECIION B-210528 FILE: MATTER 0 DIGEST: F: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OP THE UNITEO STATES WASHINGTON. C.C. 20548 DATE: August 25, 1983 First Lieutenant Michael C. Liska, USAF A member stationed overseas who had purchased a foreign-made vehicle overseas prior to entry on active duty may not be reimbursed the ex- penses of shipping the privately owned vehicle when he received permanent change-of-station orders to the United States since 1 Joint Travel Regulations, para. M11002-3, specifi- cally prohibits the shipment of foreign-made privately owned vehicles at Government expense. First Lieutenant Michael C. Liska, USAF, requests reconsideration of our Claims Group's denial of his claim for reimbursement of expenses incurred in shipping his foreign-made privately owned automobile from Germany to the continental United States. The denial of the claim is sustained. Lieutenant Liska had purchased a foreign-made automobile in 1978 in Belgium, where his parents reside. This purchase occurred prior to his entry on active duty. He received orders addressed to him at his par- ents' residence in Belgium in 1979 ordering him to report to Bitburg Air Base (AB), Germany, after 9 weeks' tempo- rary duty at Sheppard Air Force Base (AFB), Texas. His orders indicated that he was authorized to ship a pri- vately owned vehicle overseas. However, his automobile was already located overseas in Belgium. He left his automobile there while on temporary duty at Sheppard AFB and then drove it to Bitburg, AB, where he used it during his 2 years there. In 1981, Lieutenant Liska received permanent change- of-station orders to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (AFB), Ohio. The Bitburg Transportation Movement Office indicated that he could not ship his privately owned automobile to the continental United States because he had not brought it over with him from the continental United States and the provisions of chapter 11, of Volume 1, Joint Travel Regulations (JTR), precluded ship- ment at Government expense. As a result Lieutenant Liska shipped his privately owned automobile through a private shipping company from Belgium to Baltimore. Since he then did not get permissive temporary duty to pick up and

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