(2) The cost of packing, crating, unpacking, and uncrating professional books, papers, and equipment, will be computed separately from the cost of such functions in connection with household goods. When such cost is billed between Services, it will appear as a separate item on the bill.

c. Record of cost to be kept.-A careful record of all property packed, either with Government labor or by commercial firms, with all costs pertaining thereto, will be kept by the installation at which performed, in accordance with directives of the Services concerned. When the packing is performed by use of Government owned materials and/or Government labor, the record will be complete as to the period of labor, the quantities of all materials used, and the itemized value thereof.

d. Property packed by owner.-The Government will assume no risk for damage to property attributed to faulty packing or crating when packed or crated by the owner or his agents and accepted by carriers for transportation.

e. Method of packing.-Packing and crating of all household goods will be performed or contracted for by the Services in accordance with their respective current directives.

f. Excess costs.-The cost of packing, crating, and unpacking any unauthorized articles or weight in excess of prescribed weight allowance will be borne by the owner. See also paragraphs 20 and 21 below.

6. Drayage or hauling-a. Authorized.-Necessary drayage or hauling of household goods within prescribed weight allowances, is authorized at Government expense in connection with temporary or permanent change of station. Such drayage or hauling includes handling into or out of quarters, and, if necessary, the employment of special rigging and equipment in connection with heavy or delicate articles. It also includes but is not limited to the following (either singly or in combination) at:

(1) Point of origin, such as(a) From quarters to packing and crating facility and/or to storage.

(b) From packing and crating facility to quarters, when a portion of the property, after being packed and crated, is to be joined with the remainder of the property.

(c) From packing and crating facility to place of storage.

(d) To carrier's station, from quarters, packing and crating facility, and/or place of storage.

(2) En route or in transit, when the cost is not absorbed by carrier concerned, such as

(a) From incoming carrier's station to place of storage.

(b) From place of storage to outgoing carrier's station.

(c) From incoming carrier's station direct to outgoing carrier's station. (3) Destination, such as

(a) From carrier's station to quarters and/or place of storage.

(b) From place of storage to quarters.

(4) Intracity.-From one area to another area within the same city, town, or metropolitan area, when in connection with a permanent change of station or upon the retirement or death of the

owner.

b. How procured.-Unless carriers' free pick-up and delivery service includes handling into or out of quarters, packing and crating facility, and/or place of storage, such carriers' free service will not be utilized. When carriers' free pick-up or delivery is not used, such drayage or hauling will be performed by Government-owned vehicles of the respective Services, whenever available. When such Government vehicles are not available, commercial vehicles may be used. c. Bills of lading to be annotated.Where drayage service for household goods is not furnished by the carrier, bills of lading issued in connection with rail shipments will be annotated to show that pick-up service at point of origin or delivery at destination (as the case may be) was by the Government or its agent.

d. Excess costs.-The cost of draying or hauling unauthorized articles or any weight in excess of prescribed weight allowances will be borne by the owner. See also paragraphs 20 and 21 below.

7. Storage-a. Temporary Storage.(1) When authorized.-Whenever necessary in connection with a permanent change of station, because of conditions beyond control of the owner (including but not limited to directed surrender of quarters, arrival of shipment at destination before arrival of owner, or non-availability of quarters at destination) temporary storage of household goods within prescribed weight allowances is authorized at Government expense. Such storage includes all necessary in and out handling charges. Government facilities of the respective Serv

ices will be used for such storage in all cases when available. In case such Government facilities are not available, commercial facilities may be used. Owners will not arrange for temporary storage in contemplation of subsequent storage under provisions of b below. Temporary storage at Government expense will not exceed a total of six months in connection with one permanent change of station and must accrue during any one or combination of the following periods:

(a) After pick-up of property at quarters and before dispatch of shipment from carrier's station at point of origin.

(b) While shipment is in transit or en route, and storage is not furnished free of charge by carrier concerned.

(c) After arrival of shipment at carrier's destination station and before delivery of shipment into quarters.

(2) Excess costs.-Storage costs on weight in excess of prescribed allowances or for time in excess of six months will be borne by the owner. See also paragraphs 20 and 21 below.

(3) Notation on payment voucher.Vouchers covering payment of commercial storage at Government expense will be supported by a certificate of properly designated authority that such storage is necessary.

b. Non-temporary storage.

(1) Household goods.-Persons for whom a weight allowance has been prescribed may apply for storage, at an installation of the Service concerned, of their household goods (see also pars. 8 e and ƒ and 10b (2) and (7) below). Storage of automobiles is not authorized. The granting of a request will depend upon whether facilities are available and any storage furnished will be subject to the time limit prescribed in (2) below. Owners will not arrange for temporary storage mentioned in a above in contemplation of subsequent storage under these provisions. Applications for storage will contain owner's agreement that whenever household goods are not withdrawn within the prescribed time limit or promptly upon request of the commanding officer of the storage facility concerned, such household goods will be placed in commercial storage to the account and in the name of the owner. Applications for storage will be made only—

(a) Upon retirement.

(b) Upon being detached under orders from a permanent duty station

1. And ordered to temporary duty. 2. And ordered to temporary duty pending further assignment.

3. For further assignment to sea duty. 4. For further assignment to duty outside the United States, as a permanent change of station.

5. To await further orders or detail. 6. To proceed to the United States. (c) Upon assignment as student to pursue a course of study of 5 months or more duration.

(d) Upon being ordered direct to sea duty or direct to duty outside the United States.

(e) Upon discharge for personnel mentioned in paragraph 10f below.

(2) Time limit.-Except as provided in (3) below, storage herein authorized will not extend beyond the following dates:

(a) Upon retirement.-One year from date of retirement, or one year after the termination of World War II, whichever is later.

(b) Upon detachment under orders from a permanent duty station.-One year from date of detachment under orders from permanent duty station.

(c) Sea duty.-One year from the date of return from sea duty.

(d) Duty outside the United States.One year from date of return from oversea service.

(e) Upon assignment as student.One year from date of separation from school.

(f) Upon discharge.—One year from date of discharge under paragraph 10f below.

(3) Exceptions to fixed periods of time limit—(a) Hospitalization.—If the individual is confined in a hospital or in its vicinity undergoing medical treatment on the date of retirement, and continuously thereafter during the period defined in (2) (a) above, the duration of storage may be extended 60 days from the date of discharge from such medical treatment. When the owner requests such extension of time, he will furnish the officer in charge of the storage facility concerned, if so requested, a copy of the statement of hospitalization by the responsible medical officer.

c. Household goods not withdrawn from Service storage within the prescribed time limit, or not withdrawn upon request of the commanding officer of the storage facility concerned, will be placed in commercial storage to the account and in the name of the owner, at owner's expense.

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8. Shipments under Temporary Change of Station or Temporary Duty Orders.-a. The weight allowances indicated may be shipped at Government expense for individuals under temporary change of station orders or temporary duty orders as described in the following paragraphs:

b. When a member of a Reserve Component is ordered to active duty for training purposes, shipment of his temporary change of station weight allowance is authorized from his home to the place ordered for training duty and return to his home upon completion of such training duty.

c. When under competent temporary duty orders, temporary additional duty orders, temporary to permanent duty orders, or a combination thereof, individuals for whom a weight allowance has been prescribed may have their temporary change of station weight allowance of household goods shipped between any points, subject to the following limitations in cost as applicable.

(1) From permanent duty station to temporary duty station;

(2) Between temporary duty stations; (3) From last temporary duty station to old permanent duty station, provided a new permanent duty station has not been assigned; otherwise to the new permanent duty station. When an individual is ordered from a temporary duty station to a new permanent duty station or, when a temporary duty station becomes a new permanent duty station, the shipments authorized herein are in addition to the weight authorized for such permanent change of station.

d. When an individual is ordered to temporary duty in connection with the building, fitting out, or conversion of a vessel, and such orders direct duty on board when commissioned, the permanent change of station weight allowance of household goods may be shipped from the old permanent duty station to any point in the United States, as desired by the owner. (See also par. 9 below.)

e. When an individual is detached under orders from a permanent duty station and ordered to temporary duty pending further assignment to duty abroad, or to temporary duty pending further assignment to sea duty, his household goods within the prescribed permanent change of station weight allowance may be shipped to any point in the United States, or such household goods may be packed, drayed, and placed

in storage facilities of the Service concerned under provisions of paragraph 7 b above. When such facilities are not available, his household goods may be packed, drayed, and placed in commercial storage, in which case all costs other than those of packing and draying will be at owner's expense.

f. When an individual is detached under orders from a permanent duty station and ordered to temporary duty, or to temporary duty for further assignment, his household goods, within prescribed permanent change of station weight allowance, may be packed, drayed, and placed in storage under storage provisions of e above.

g. Household goods which have been placed in storage under provisions of e or f above, may be shipped to any subsequent permanent duty station. Shipment may also be made to any point in the United States under provisions of paragraph 10 b (2) below, when applicable.

9. Shipment when detached from permanent station to await orders, detail, or assignment, or to proceed to the United States.-a. When an individual is detached from a permanent station within the United States and directed to await orders, detail, or assignment, household goods, within the prescribed permanent change of station weight allowance, may be packed, crated, drayed, and placed in storage facilities of the Service concerned, if available, under provisions of paragraph 7b. When such facilities are not available, household goods may be packed, crated, drayed, and commercially stored at Government expense within the time limit prescribed for temporary storage in paragraph 7a above. Upon receipt of orders assigning the new permanent duty station, shipment of such household goods is authorized from point of storage or previous permanent duty station to the new permanent duty station.

b. When an individual is detached from an overseas permanent duty station and directed to proceed to the United States, household goods, within the prescribed permanent change of station weight allowance, may be shipped at government expense from the permanent duty station to the point in the United States to which ordered to report. The movement of household goods is thus permitted even though the new permanent duty station is, for the time being, indeterminate. If orders to new

permanent duty station are not available upon arrival of the household goods at the point to which shipped, and such household goods cannot be placed in storage facilities of the Service concerned, the household goods may be placed in commercial storage at Government expense within the time limit prescribed for temporary storage in paragraph 7a above. Upon receipt of further orders fixing the new permanent duty station, the same property may be reshipped, the allowable cost being limited to the transportation cost from the reshipping point to the new permanent duty station. In these circumstances, the orders involving detachment and the orders fixing the new permanent duty station are considered to be one set of orders for a permanent change of station. Therefore, if the owner takes physical possession of the household goods at the reshipping point, the Government will not assume the cost of shipping such household goods from the reshipping point, since household goods may not be reshipped under identical orders for the convenience of the owner. See also c and paragraph 13 below.

c. All commercial storage furnished at Government expense under provisions of a or b above will not exceed a total of six months duration in connection with one transfer between the last permanent duty station and the new permanent duty station.

10. Shipment under permanent change of station orders. The permanent change of station weight allowance of household goods may be shipped at Government expense for the classes of personnel indicated below under the following terms and conditions:

a. Upon being ordered to active duty.(1) For contract surgeons of the Services subject to these regulations; members of Reserve Components of such Services when ordered to active duty for not less than six months; members of the National Guard when inducted into Federal service for not less than six months; civilians commissioned as temporary officers or appointed as temporary warrant officers in the Army of the United States when ordered to active duty for a period of not less than six months; from home to the first or any subsequent permanent duty station.

(2) For retired personnel recalled to active duty, to the first permanent duty station from home or, in the case of personnel recalled to active duty within one

year after retirement who did not ship their household goods in connection with such retirement, from the last permanent duty station or place of storage prior to retirement. The provisions of this subparagraph apply to such personnel ordered to or relieved from active duty in connection with Organized Reserves and/or Citizens Military Training activities only when and to the extent that transportation of household goods in such circumstances is permissible under applicable appropriation acts.

b. Upon permanent change of station.-(1) For personnel on active duty, from the last duty station to the new duty station. In case an individual does not desire to ship his authorized weight allowance, or any portion thereof to his new permanent duty station, he is not thereby precluded from making later shipment thereof, from that former permanent station to some subsequent permanent duty station within authorized weight allowance under travel orders to the latter station. As used in this subparagraph "former permanent duty station" includes the home of an individual for whom shipment from home is authorized under subparagraph a above.

(2) On transfer or assignment to sea duty; to duty in connection with building, fitting out, or conversion of a vessel; to duty overseas; or to places where their dependents are not, for military reasons, permitted to accompany them or join them within five months or where the commanding officer has determined that quarters for dependents, if authorized, are not available; from the last duty station to such locations in the United States as may be designated by the person concerned. Upon subsequent transfer to a duty station which is not subject to such military restrictions or, upon removal of such restrictions without change of station, from such designated locations to the current duty station.

(3) For officers commissioned and warrant officers appointed permanently or temporarily in the Regular Services from the ranks (including graduates from Officer Candidate Schools), from home and/or the last permanent duty station to the new permanent duty station.

(4) For officers commissioned and warrant officers appointed permanently or temporarily in the Reserve components of the Services concerned from the ranks (including graduates from Officer Candidate Schools), from home and/or

last permanent duty station to the new permanent duty station (see 8 Comp. Gen. 507).

(5) For members of the graduating classes, of the Academies of the Services concerned who are commissioned as officers, from home of the individual and/or the academy from which the individual is graduated to the first permanent duty station (see act June 27, 1944; 58 Stat. 288).

(The pro

(6) For hospital patients. visions of paragraph 15c (3) below do not apply to shipments authorized in this subparagraph.)

(a) To hospitals.-For personnel on active duty who are transferred from either a permanent or temporary duty station, or from a hospital where they are listed as patients, to a hospital for further observation and treatment, from the last or any previous permanent duty station and/or points of storage to the city or town in which such hospital is located, but not to the hospital itself, as for a permanent change of station, provided that the commanding officer of the hospital, after an evaluation of the case, certifies that the period of treatment in that hospital can be expected to be prolonged. This certificate will be furnished in addition to other supporting papers required with the application for transportation of household goods (Form OF 1, 1 March 1948 (Armed Forces)). See also paragraphs 15f and 16c below.

(b) From outside the United States.For personnel on active duty who are transferred as patients from outside the United States to a hospital within the United States for further observation and treatment, from foreign or oversea points to the city or town in which the hospital is located, but not to the hospital itself. At the owner's option, shipment may instead be forwarded to another point within the United States designated by him. In the case of shipment from overseas, the owner will bear the cost of transportation from the port through which the shipment entered the United States to the point designated, in excess of that which would have been allowed at Government expense had shipment been made from the same port to the city or town in which the hospital is located. In connection with overland shipments from Canada or Mexico, the owner will bear the cost of transportation from the original point of shipment to the point designated, in ex

cess of that which would have been allowed at Government expense had shipment been made from the same point of origin to the city or town in which the hospital is located. The certificate prescribed in (a) above is not required to support these types of shipments. In the case of an individual who did not take his household goods with him overseas, shipment may be made from the place of storage (see (2) above) or from any previous permanent duty station to the city or town in which the hospital is located, but not the hospital itself. The certificate prescribed in (a) above is required to support this type of shipment.

(c) When discharge from hospital is ordered.-For personnel on active duty, who are discharged as patients from a hospital and ordered home for separation from the service, or restored to duty, from the city or town in which the hospital is located or from a designated place in lieu thereof (see (b) above) to such home or to any subsequently assigned permanent duty station. The owner will bear the cost of transportation from the designated place to the home or permanent duty station, in excess of that which would have been allowed at Government expense had shipment been made from the city or town in which the hospital is located to such home or permanent duty station. Shipment to the home of the individual under this subparagraph is limited to those individuals for whom shipment from the last permanent duty station to home is authorized. See also d and ƒ below and paragraph 15 e.

(7) Upon assignment as student.— (a) For all personnel on active duty, when ordered upon change of station to a Service school or civilian educational institution as a student to pursue a prescribed course of study therein of not less than five months' duration, from the last permanent duty station to such school or to a designated place of storage when no Service storage facilities are available therefore at the last permanent duty station.

(b) Upon subsequent transfer from said school or institution, from the school, former permanent duty station, and/or place of storage to the new permanent duty station, within authorized weight allowance to the new permanent duty station.

c. Upon termination of active duty other than by resignation, discharge