|CHAPTER�5�-�PERMANENT�DUTY�TRAVEL
    PART�C:��DEPENDENT�ALLOWANCES�FOR�TRANSPORTATION
        U5246��TRANSPORTATION�OF�FAMILY�MEMBERS�OF�A�SERIOUSLY�ILL�OR�INJURED�MEMBER
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| | U5246� TRANSPORTATION OF FAMILY MEMBERS OF A SERIOUSLY ILL OR INJURED MEMBER | 
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| | A.� General.� | 
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| | Not more than two family members of a member described in subpar. 1 or 2 may be provided round-trip transportation under this paragraph as determined by appropriate authority.� See par. U1010-B7 for claims. | 
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| | 1.Active Duty Member Including a Member of the Reserve Components on Active Duty.� | 
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| | Round-trip transportation is authorized to visit an active duty member who is seriously ill, seriously injured or in a situation of imminent death, whether or not electrical brain activity still exists or brain death is declared, and who is hospitalized in a medical facility in CONUS or OCONUS. | 
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| | 2.Member of the Reserve Components Entitled to Disability Pay and Allowances.� | 
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| | Round-trip transportation is authorized to visit a reserve component member entitled to disability pay and allowances under 37 U.S.C.�204(g) (see DoDFMR. Volume 7A, paragraph 80254 and table 8-2-3 or COMDTINST M7220.29 (series) par. 12-Q and figure 12-2 for Coast Guard personnel), who is physically disabled as the result of an injury, illness, or disease incurred or aggravated, or in a situation of imminent death, whether or not electrical brain activity still exists or brain death is declared, and who is hospitalized in a medical facility in CONUS or OCONUS if that member became ill or injured or was diseased: | 
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| | a.in line of duty while performing inactive-duty training (other than work or study in connection with a correspondence course of an armed force or attendance in an inactive status at an educational institution under the sponsorship of an armed force or the Public Health Service), and | 
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| | b.while traveling directly to or from such training. | 
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| | B.� Definition.� | 
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| | "Family members" as used in this paragraph are the member's spouse, children (including step, adopted, and illegitimate children), siblings of the member and parents of the member (includes fathers and mothers through adoption and persons who have stood in loco parentis to the member for a period of not less than 1 year immediately before the member entered the Uniformed Service).� However, only one father and one mother or their counterparts may be recognized in any one case. | 
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| | C.� Transportation.� | 
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| | One, or a combination, of the following round-trip transportation services between the family member's home and the medical facility location in which the member is hospitalized may be provided if the attending physician or surgeon and the commander/head of the military medical facility exercising military control over the member determines in writing that the presence of the family member is necessary for the health and welfare of the member is concerned: | 
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| | 1.� transportation-in-kind or Government-procured transportation; | 
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| | 2.� reimbursement for the cost of personally-procured commercial transportation; | 
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| | 3.� automobile mileage rate (see Appendix A) for the distance traveled by POC. | 
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| | Government/Government-procured transportation must be used to the maximum extent practicable for transoceanic travel.� Reimbursement provided in item 2 is subject to par. U5203-A, first itemization, item 2 for land travel and par. U5205-B for transoceanic travel.� When land travel is by mixed modes, reimbursement is for actual travel up to the cost of personally-procured transportation between origin and destination (minus the cost of any Government-procured transportation used).� When travel is by POC, only the operator of the POC is entitled to the allowance prescribed in item 3. | 
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| | D.� Limitations.� | 
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| | Per diem is not payable for travel in connection with this paragraph. | 
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| | E.Reimbursable Expenses.� | 
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| | Reimbursement of expenses prescribed in par. U5212 is authorized in connection with travel under this paragraph. | 
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| | U5250� ADVANCE OF FUNDS� | 
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| | Travel and transportation allowances prescribed in this Part for dependents may be paid in advance (see par. U1010-B4).� A member failing to complete at least 90 percent of the initial active duty obligation, who is separated from the Service or relieved from active duty under par. U5125-A5 may be paid a travel advance for dependent(s) transportation, as authorized in par. U5225-F, in an amount equal to 75 percent of the amount for the least costly mode of transportation available.� Retirees may be advanced travel and transportation allowances for the travel of their dependent(s).� All other members authorized transportation of dependents in connection with separation or relief from active duty, may be advanced an amount equal to 75 percent of the MALT. | 
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| | PART D:� HOUSEHOLD GOODS� (HHG) TRANSPORTATION AND NONTEMPORARY STORAGE (NTS) | 
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| | U5300� GENERAL | 
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| | This Part prescribes PCS HHG transportation and NTS entitlements including those in unusual or emergency circumstances.� See Appendix A for the definition of HHG transportation. | 
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| | U5305� ELIGIBILITY | 
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| | A member is entitled to HHG transportation or NTS when the member is ordered to perform a PCS move. | 
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| | U5310� BASIC ENTITLEMENT | 
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| | A.� General.� | 
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| | Subject to the conditions in this paragraph a member ordered on a PCS is entitled to HHG transportation.� (See par. U5203 for dependent transportation.) | 
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| | 1.The Government's HHG transportation obligation is limited to the cost of the completed movement of HHG equal in weight to a member's weight allowance (see subpar. B) in one lot between authorized places at the lowest overall cost (except for a DITY move) to the Government. | 
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| | 2.As used in this paragraph, a "former PDS" includes an individual�s HOR. | 
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| | 3.If a member doesn�t transport all the authorized HHG to a new PDS, a later shipment may be transported from a former PDS if: | 
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| | a.� the HHG were in the member's possession before the effective date of orders from that former PDS, and | 
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| | b.� the HHG previously transported plus the HHG being transported don�t exceed the authorized weight allowance on the effective date of the orders from the former station. | 
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| | 4.HHG transportation includes temporary storage (see par. U5375), unless specifically prohibited. | 
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| | 5For cases involving mobile home allowances, see par. U5330-F and Part F. | 
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| | 6.Unaccompanied baggage weight is always part of the member�s authorized HHG weight allowance. | 
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| | For a compelling reason, transportation of any HHG article to and/or from OCONUS may be prohibited through the Secretarial Process. | 
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| | B.� Prescribed Weight Allowances.� | 
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| | Except as provided in pars. U5315 and U5330-A, PCS authorized weight allowances are : | 
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| | WEIGHT ALLOWANCE TABLE (POUNDS) | 
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| | Weight Allowance | 
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| | With Dependent(s) (2)WithoutGrade (1&3)Dependent(s)0-10 to 0-618,00018,0000-5 & W-517,50016,0000-4 & W-417,00014,0000-3 & W-314,50013,0000-2 & W-213,50012,5000-1, W-1 & Service Academy Graduates12,00010,000E-9�� 14,500 (4)��� 12,000 (4) E-813,50011,000E-712,50010,500E-611,000� 8,000E-5� 9,000� 7,000E-4 (over 2 years service) � 8,000� 7,000E-4 (2 years service or less)� 7,000� 3,500E-3� 5,000��� � 2,000 (5)E-2 & E-1� 5,000��� � 1,500 (5)Aviation Cadets (6) Service Academy Cadets & Midshipmen � ���� 350 | 
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| | Footnotes to Table ofPCSWeight Allowances | 
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| | 1.� Members of reserve components and officers holding temporary commissions in the Army and Air Force of the United States are entitled to the weight allowances for corresponding grades listed. | 
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| | 2.� For this table, members �with dependents� are members who have dependents eligible to travel at Government expense incident to the member's PCS.� Actual dependent travel has no bearing.� Incident to a member's firstPCSafter: | 
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| | a.� the death of the member's dependent(s), or | 
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| | b.� a divorce which leaves the member with no dependent(s) eligible to travel at Government expense, | 
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| | the member has the weight allowance of a member "with dependents". | 
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| | 3.� A member of the regular components of the Uniformed Services appointed from: | 
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| | a.� an enlisted or warrant officer grade to a commissioned officer grade, or | 
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| | b.� an enlisted grade to a warrant officer grade or rating, | 
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| | is entitled to the weight allowance of the grade: | 
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| | a.� held on the effective date of the member's PCS orders used for HHG transportation, or | 
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| | b.� from which an appointment was accepted, | 
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| | whichever is greater.� Upon reversion, the member is entitled to the weight allowance of the grade: | 
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| | a.� held on the effective date of the member's PCS order used for HHG transportation, or | 
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