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| | APPENDIX A - GLOSSARY | 
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| | GLOSSARY - PART I:� TERMS | 
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| | DEFINITIONS.� As used in these regulations, and unless otherwise specifically provided in these regulations, the following definitions apply. | 
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| | ACQUIRED DEPENDENT.� | 
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| | A military member's dependent acquired through marriage, adoption, or other action during� the course of a member's current tour of assigned duty.� The term doesn't include� persons dependent on the member or children born of a marriage that existed before the beginning of a current overseas tour. | 
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| | ACTIVE DUTY.� | 
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| | Full-time duty in the active service (37 U.S.C. �101(18)) of a Uniformed Service, and includes full-time training duty, annual� training duty, full-time National Guard duty, and attendance, while in the� active service, at a school designated as a Service school by law or by the Secretary concerned.� A member is considered to be on active duty while in a travel status or while on authorized leave. | 
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| | ACTIVE DUTY FOR TRAINING.� | 
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| | Full-time� training duty in the active military service for the express purpose of training members of the Ready Reserve to acquire or maintain required military skills.� It includes initial basic training, advanced individual training, annual training duty, and full-time attendance at Service schools so designated by law or the Secretary concerned. | 
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| | ANNUAL TRAINING DUTY. | 
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| | The period of annual active duty for training which a member of the Ready Reserve is required to perform each year in an active duty status to satisfy the annual training requirements associated with the member's reserve assignment. | 
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| | APPROVED. | 
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| | The ratification or confirmation� of an act already done. | 
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| | ARMED FORCES. | 
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| | The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard (see37 U.S.C.A.�101(4)). | 
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| | AUTHORIZED. | 
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| | The giving of permission before an act. | 
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| | AUTOMOBILE MILEAGE RATES.� | 
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| | See MILEAGE (ALLOWANCE). | 
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| | BAGGAGE, UNACCOMPANIED. | 
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| | That part of a member'sHHGwhich: | 
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| | 1.ordinarily is transported separately from the major bulk ofHHG, and� | 
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| | 2.is needed immediately or soon after the member's or dependents' arrival for interim housekeeping pending arrival of the major portion of the member'sHHG. | 
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| | BLANKET TRAVEL ORDER. | 
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| | An order issued to a member who regularly and frequently makes trips away from thePDSwithin certain� geographical limits in performance of regularly assigned duties.� | 
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| | CIRCUITOUS TRAVEL. | 
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| | Travel by a route other than the one that would normally be� prescribed by a transportation officer between the places involved. | 
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| | COMMANDANT'S PAROLE. | 
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| | The conditional release from confinement of a prisoner in a disciplinary barracks, under the supervision of the commandant of a United States disciplinary barracks, whose parole has been approved by the Secretary concerned and whose court-martial sentence hasn't been ordered executed because appellate review of the case hasn't been completed. | 
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| | COMMAND SPONSORED DEPENDENT. | 
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| | Dependent(s) residing with the member at anOCONUSlocation, where the accompanied-by-dependents tour is authorized and the member is authorized to serve that tour, and where the dependent(s) meet the following conditions: | 
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| | 1.Except in the case of acquired dependent(s), and children born after the effective date of the member'sPCSorder, the dependent(s) are entitled to travel to the member'sPDSat Government expense incident to thePCSorders. | 
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| | 2.The dependent(s) are authorized by the appropriate authority to be at the member'sPDS. | 
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| | 3.As a result of their residence in the vicinity of the member'sPDS, the dependent(s) entitled the member to station allowances at the with-dependents rate. | 
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| | See DODD 1315.7 (Military Personnel Assignments) for DOD Services and/or Service regulations for dependent command sponsorship criteria (see par.U1010-B13). | 
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| | COMMERCIAL TRANSPORTER. | 
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| | A transporter of mobile homes operating under the Interstate Commerce Act in interstate commerce or under appropriate state statutes in intrastate commerce. | 
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| | COMMERCIAL TRAVEL OFFICE (CTO).� | 
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| | The commercial activity providing full range of commercial travel and ticketing services at a Government installation under a contract and/or memorandum of understanding. | 
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| | COMMON CARRIER. | 
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| | A firm furnishing commercial transportation as a public service under rates prescribed by lawful authority.� This includes railroad, bus,� airplane, or ship. | 
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| | COMMON CARRIER ACCOMMODATIONS | 
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| | 1.First/Premium Class. | 
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| | The highest class of accommodations offered by commercial airlines, all classes of accommodations above the lowest class of accommodations, including but not limited to suites, offered by commercial ships, and the highest class of service, including bedroom, roomettes, club service, parlor car, or other premium accommodations offered by passenger carrying rail carriers. | 
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| | 2.Premium Class Other Than First Class. | 
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| | Any class of accommodations offered by commercial airlines that is between coach-class and first-class accommodations (e.g., business-class). | 
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| | 3.Coach-Class. | 
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| | The basic class of accommodations offered by commercial airlines and passenger carrying rail carriers to passengers, which includes a level of service available to all passengers regardless of the fare paid.� The term applies when an airline offers only one class of accommodations.� The term also includes tourist-class and economy-class on commercial airlines and reserved coach accommodations as well as slumber coach accommodations when overnight travel is involved by rail. | 
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| | 4.Slumber Coach. | 
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| | Includes slumber coach accommodations on trains offering such accommodations, or the lowest level of sleeping accommodations available on a train that doesn't offer slumber coach accommodations. | 
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| | 5.Extra-Fare Train. | 
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| | A train that operates at an increased fare due to the extra performance of the train (i.e., faster speed or fewer stops).� The term doesn't mean first-class train accommodations, even though an extra-fare train may offer first-class accommodations. | 
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| | 6.Lowest-Class. | 
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| | The least expensive class of reserved accommodations available on a ship. | 
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| | CONSECUTIVE OVERSEAS TOUR (COT). | 
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| | ThePCSreassignment of a member from one overseasPDSto another overseasPDS, regardless of whether it is within the same country or intra or intertheater.� Completion of the initial overseas tour isn't essential.� (Exception to thePCSrequirement is when member serves an in placeCOT.) | 
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| | CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES(CONUS). | 
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