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B-210970 1 (1983-10-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadljf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 01 t - # THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHIN GTO N. 0.C. 20548 FILE: B-210970 DATE: October 4, 1983 MATTER OF: Warrant Officer John W. Snapp, USMC DIGEST: 1. The Joint Travel Regulations provide that when a service member is ordered to attend courses of instruction at an installation for 20 weeks or more, that installation constitutes his permanent duty station. Thus, orders issued to a Marine which were intended to assign him to courses of instruction at Quantico, Virginia, for more than 20 weeks consti- tuted valid permanent change-of-station orders, and the assignment could not properly be classified as temporary duty on the basis that it might later be, dnd in fact was, curtailed to less than 20 weeks. 2. Legal rights and liabilities in regard to per diem and other travel allowances vest when the travel is performed under orders, and such orders if valid may not be canceled or modified retroactively to increase or decrease the rights which have become fixed under the applicable statutes and regulations. Consequently, if a service member completes a permanent change-of-station move under valid orders, those fully executed orders are not susceptible to cancellation upon the curtailment of the permanent assignment at a later date. Instead, the member's further reassignment upon his completion of the curtailed assignment could prop- erly be accomplished only through the issuance of new permanent change-of- station orders. 3. Permanent change-of-station orders may be canceled at any time before the orders have been fully executed, that is, before all of the travel and transportation activities involved in the relocation J~&8Li ~

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