Vehicles: Law Authorizing Shipment of Service Members' Vehicles Needs Revision

摘要

Under current law, Department of Defense (DOD) service members are entitled to the movement of a privately owned vehicle (POV) at government expense when they are required to make a permanent change of station or when the home port of the vessel to which they are assigned is changed. The Joint Military Travel Regulations restrict this entitlement to members ordered to make a permanent change of station to, from, or between places outside the United States. Except in the case of home port changes, the regulations do not provide for the transportation of POVs at government expense within the continental United States (CONUS). Although members are entitled to monetary allowances when driving their POVs to new duty stations in CONUS, such allowances are only in lieu of commercial transportation for the member and/or his family.