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B-225205 1 (1987-09-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmwa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof: Brigadier General Charles J. Searock, Jr., USAF File: B-225205 Date: September 25, 1987 DIGEST A member of the uniformed services required by Air Force regulations to live on base who for 30 days is forced to relocate with his dependents into temporary quarters without kitchen facilities at his permanent duty station due to uninhabitability of his government quarters incurred addi- tional expenses for meals. Since the member's evacuation was necessary for the proper administration of the facility as well as the personal safety of the member and his family, the member may be reimbursed the expenses he incurred over and above what he would have spent for food had he been allowed to remain in on-base housing. DECISION We are asked to decide whether Brigadier General Charles J. Searock, Jr., USAF, who at the time of this claim was Vice Commander of Tinker Air Force Base, a command position, may be reimbursed for subsistence expenses he incurred for 30 days while he and his family occupied visiting officers quarters (VOQ) due to the uninhabitability of their on-base housing.l/ For the reasons to follow, General Searock may be reimbursed for his food expenses to the extent that these expenses exceeded his normal monthly food expenses. BACKGROUND In October of 1985, shortly after General Searock and his family moved into on-base quarters at Tinker Air Force Base, his quarters were rendered uninhabitable due to unacceptably high levels of chlordane. Consequently, he and his family 1/Lieutenant Colonel Jack C. Stanley, USAF, Headquarters Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center (AFLC), Tinker Air Force Base, has requested this decision. ovl-c -?a

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