|CHAPTER�5�-�PERMANENT�DUTY�TRAVEL
    PART�C:��DEPENDENT�ALLOWANCES�FOR�TRANSPORTATION
        U5222��DEPENDENTS��TRAVEL�AND�TRANSPORTATION�ALLOWANCES�UNDER�VARIOUS�PCS�ORDERS
            C.��Ordered�to�an�OCONUS�Station�to�Which�Dependents��Travel�Is�Authorized
                4.�Member�Elects�to�Serve�an�Unaccompanied�Tour.
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| | 4.Member Elects to Serve an Unaccompanied Tour.� | 
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| | A member who elects to serve an unaccompanied tour may leave dependents at their current location, or move them to a designated place in: | 
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| | b.a nonforeign OCONUS area; if: | 
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| | (1)the member was a legal resident of that area before entering on active duty; | 
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| | (2)the member's spouse was a legal resident of that area at the time of marriage; | 
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| | (3)the member was called to active duty from that area; | 
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| | (4)it�s the member's HOR; | 
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| | (5)authorized/approved through the Secretarial Process; | 
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| | c.an OCONUS location at which PCS orders state the member is scheduled to serve an accompanied tour immediately after completing the unaccompanied tour.� The member must have sufficient obligated service to complete the unaccompanied tour and the subsequent accompanied tour. | 
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| | Dependents shall not be moved again at Government expense until subsequent PCS orders are issued or the member is selected to serve an IPCOT.� A member moving dependents to a designated place under this subparagraph may move dependents to the OCONUS PDS at personal expense.� If dependents are command sponsored there after arrival, they may be moved at Government expense when subsequent PCS orders are issued. | 
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| | 5.Reimbursement for Transoceanic Travel. | 
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| | Par. U5116-D, pertaining to a member�s authorized transoceanic travel, also applies to reimbursement for authorized transoceanic travel performed by dependents at personal expense. | 
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| | D.� Ordered on a Dependent-Restricted Tour, to Unusually Arduous Sea Duty, or to Duty Under Unusual Circumstances | 
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| | 1.PCS on a Dependent-Restricted Tour.� | 
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| | When transferred by PCS orders on a dependent-restricted tour, a member may elect to move dependents from the old PDS to a designated place in: | 
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| | b.a nonforeign OCONUS area; if: | 
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| | (1)the member was a legal resident of that area before entering on active duty; | 
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| | (2)the member's spouse was a legal resident of that area at the time of marriage; | 
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| | (3)the member was called to active duty from that area; | 
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| | (4)it�s the member's HOR; | 
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| | (5)authorized/approved through the Secretarial Process; | 
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| | c.an OCONUS location at which PCS orders state the member is scheduled to serve an accompanied tour immediately after completing the dependent-restricted tour, or a tour falling under subpar. 2 or 3 below.� The member must have sufficient obligated service to complete the dependent-restricted tour and either the tour falling under subpar. 2 or 3 below, or the subsequent accompanied tour; or | 
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| | d.an OCONUS location justified under unusual conditions or circumstances and authorized/approved by the Secretary concerned; | 
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| | (1)this authority may not be delegated below the Service headquarters that directs dependents� travel and transportation policy and procedures; | 
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| | (2)for members of the Armed Forces, this authority may be used only to return foreign-born dependents to their native countries; | 
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| | (3)the Commandant of the Coast Guard (G-WP) may make exceptions for Coast Guard members; and | 
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| | (4)dependents residing in the same country as the member shall not be command sponsored, if moved there under this authority. | 
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| | 2.Assignment to Unusually Arduous Sea Duty on a Specified Vessel, Afloat Staff, or Unit.� | 
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| | When a member is transferred by PCS orders to a vessel, afloat staff, or afloat unit specified in writing through the Secretarial Process as involving unusually arduous sea duty, dependents� travel and transportation allowances are authorized from the old PDS to the new PDS (except for a dependent-restricted tour) or to a designated place as specified in subpar. 1.� Members are entitled to dependents� travel and transportation allowances under this subparagraph when the old homeport or PDS is identical to the new homeport or PDS (57 Comp. Gen. 266 (1978)). | 
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| | 3.Assignment to Vessel or Afloat Staff Specified as Operating OCONUS for a Period of One Year or More.� | 
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| | When a member is permanently assigned to a vessel or afloat staff specified through the Secretarial Process as operating in an OCONUS area for a contemplated continuous period of 1 year or more on the date the vessel or afloat staff is so specified, or the member is thereafter transferred by PCS orders to such vessel or afloat staff, the member is entitled to dependents� travel and transportation allowances from the PDS to a designated place as specified in subpar. 1. | 
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| | 4.Subsequent Entitlement.� | 
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| | When a member is: | 
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| | a.transferred by PCS order from a dependent-restricted tour to an area to which dependent travel is authorized; | 
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| | b.transferred by PCS order from a specified vessel, afloat staff, or afloat unit referred to in subpar. 2 or 3 except when serving a dependent-restricted tour at the new PDS (subpar. 1) or another specified vessel, afloat staff, or afloat unit (subpar. 2 or 3); | 
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| | c.on permanent duty aboard a vessel or staff referred to in subpar. 2 or 3 when such vessel or staff is relieved from unusually arduous sea duty or the specified continuous overseas duty of 1 year or more; or | 
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| | d.on permanent duty on a dependent-restricted tour on the date the restriction against dependents� travel to the member's PDS is removed; | 
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| | except as provided in par. U5215-F, dependents� travel and transportation allowances are authorized from the place the dependents are located on receipt of PCS orders involved in item a or b or on the date of change of conditions in item c or d, or from the place to which dependents were moved at Government expense under subpar. 1 or 3, whichever results in the lesser entitlement, to the member's PDS. Dependents� travel and transportation allowances are authorized from the place to which dependents were moved under this paragraph or from the homeport for a vessel, afloat staff, or afloat unit if dependents are located there on receipt of PCS orders involved in item b, to the new PDS.� A member is entitled to dependents� travel and transportation allowances even though the homeport of the old vessel, afloat staff, or afloat unit specified under subpar. 2 or 3 and the new PDS are identical (57 Comp. Gen. 266 (1978)). | 
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| | 5.Change of Homeport.� | 
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| | When on duty with a vessel, afloat staff, or an afloat unit specified as unusually arduous on the effective date of the homeport change, a member is entitled to dependents� travel and transportation allowances: | 
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| | a.from the old homeport or designated place to the new homeport if the homeport change is incident to commencement of an overhaul to be performed at the new homeport.� If travel is from the old homeport to a location other than the new homeport, par. U5218 applies. If travel is from a designated place to a location other than the new homeport, the entitlement is limited to that from the designated place to the new homeport. | 
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| | b.from the old homeport to the new homeport or to a designated place if the homeport change is incident to completion of an overhaul.� If travel is from a location other than the old homeport to the new homeport, par. U5218 applies.� If travel is from a location other than the old homeport to a designated place, the entitlement is limited to that from the old homeport to a designated place. | 
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| | c.from the old homeport or from a designated place to the new homeport or from the old homeport to a designated place, if the homeport change is not incident to an overhaul.� Travel from one designated place to another is not authorized. | 
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| | E.Reassigned OCONUS Before Prescribed OCONUS Tour Is Completed Due to Base Closure or Similar Action.� | 
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| | A member, accompanied by command sponsored dependents, who is involuntarily transferred on a PCS from an OCONUS PDS to another OCONUS PDS due to base closure or similar action by the Service concerned, is entitled to dependents� travel and transportation allowances to the new PDS, if dependents are authorized thereat, or in accordance with subpar. D, if the member is to serve a dependent-restricted tour at the new PDS.� If the move is within the same theater, the tour length restrictions in par. U5203-B3e and f don't apply.� Upon subsequent transfer from the new PDS on a PCS, dependents� travel and transportation allowances are authorized regardless of the length of time served at the PDS from which the member last departed. | 
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| | F.� Consecutive Overseas Tours (COTs).� | 
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| | A member stationed OCONUS who is selected to serve a COT is authorized dependents� travel and transportation allowances as follows: | 
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| | 1.Unaccompanied to Unaccompanied Tour. | 
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| | Dependents may be moved from a designated place to another designated place if authorized/approved by the Secretary concerned and it is shown that the dependents� movement is in the Government�s best interest.� This authority may not be delegated.� This movement is authorized only on a PCS. | 
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| | 2.Unaccompanied to Accompanied Tour. | 
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| | Dependents may be moved from a designated place to the member's new PDS, if dependents are command sponsored prior to travel to the new PDS. For IPCOT entitlements see par. U5240-K. | 
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| | 3.Accompanied to Unaccompanied or Dependent-Restricted Tour.� | 
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| | When a member elects to serve an unaccompanied tour or receives a PCS to a dependent-restricted tour, the provisions of subpar. C4 or D1 apply.� A member may leave command-sponsored dependents at the old PDS (this location is then a designated place), if authorized/approved through the Secretarial Process (may not be delegated below the headquarters that directs transportation policies or procedures for the Service concerned), and receive station allowances at the with dependent rate (par. U9301-B1).� For IPCOT entitlements see par. U5240-K. | 
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| | 4.Accompanied to Accompanied Tour. | 
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| | Dependents may be moved to the new PDS, if command sponsored there, when a member elects or is required (assigned to a key billet) to serve an accompanied tour at the new PDS.� A member, assigned to a key billet and electing to serve without dependents, is entitled to allowances for dependents� travel to a designated place. | 
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| | G.� Consecutive OCONUS Tours for a Member With Noncommand Sponsored Dependents.� | 
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| | A member, ordered on a PCS between OCONUS PDSs, who has noncommand sponsored dependents at, or in the vicinity of, the old PDS, is entitled to travel and transportation allowances for travel of those dependents if the member is to serve an accompanied tour at the new PDS.� If the member was entitled to dependents� travel and transportation allowances at the time of transfer to the old OCONUS PDS, entitlement is for the travel performed up to the entitlement from the place dependents were last moved at Government expense.� If the member wasn't entitled to dependents� travel and transportation allowances at the time of transfer to the old OCONUS PDS, the entitlement shall not exceed the travel and transportation allowances from the port of embarkation in CONUS serving the old PDS to the new PDS.� For IPCOT entitlements see par. U5240-K. | 
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| | H.� Transfer to, from, or Between Sea Duty Assignments Not Specified as Unusually Arduous Sea Duty.� | 
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