THE JOINT TRAVEL REGULATIONS - Office of the General Counsel

APP A: Definitions & Acronyms (JTR)
Part 1: Definitions
SUBSISTENCE EXPENSES. See PER DIEM ALLOWANCE.
Appendix A1
TEACHER. A civilian who is a citizen of the U.S. and whose services are required on a school year basis in a
teaching position subject to 20 USC §901-907 in the DOD Education Activity System.
TEMPORARY CHANGE OF STATION (TCS). The relocation of an employee to a new PDS for a temporary
period to perform a long-term temporary assignment, and subsequent return of the employee to the previous PDS
after assignment completion.
*TEMPORARY DUTY (TDY). Duty at one or more locations, away from the PDS, under a travel authorization/
order providing for further assignment or, pending further assignment, to return to the old PDS or to proceed to a
new PDS. There are four types of TDY travel with different allowances:
1. Business Travel. Conducting business at a location other than the PDS. It incorporates any type of travel
not included in schoolhouse training, deployment and unit training or special circumstances travel. It also
includes certain local travel, but not leave or evacuation.
2. Schoolhouse Training Travel. Travel ICW TDY attendance at formal course(s) of instruction by a civilian
employee.
3. Deployment, Personnel Traveling Together Under an Authorization/Order Directing No/Limited
Reimbursement, and Unit Travel. Includes a unit traveling in support of a combat mission, peacekeeping, and
disaster relief. It also includes field or maneuver training and sea duty when troops involved are not
permanently assigned to a ship. The GOV’T provides all transportation, lodging, and eating facilities when
personnel traveling together are under an authorization/order directing no/limited reimbursement.
4. Special Circumstances Travel. Those categories of travel found in JTR, Ch 7.
TEMPORARY DUTY (TDY) LOCATION. See TEMPORARY DUTY STATION.
TEMPORARY DUTY (TDY) STATION. A place, away from the PDS, to which the traveler is authorized to
travel.
TEMPORARY DUTY (TDY) TRAVEL. Travel to one or more places away from a PDS to perform duties for a
period of time and, upon completion of assignment, return or proceed to a PDS.
TEMPORARY LODGING FACILITIES. Specifically identified Service-operated interim housing facilities that
provide short-term housing accommodations for which a charge is levied, without direct charge against the
occupant’s QTRS allowance. They include guesthouses, except transient visiting officer QTRS occupied by official
visitors to the INSTALLATION. NOTE:
They do not include facilities used primarily for rest and recuperation
purposes, or unaccompanied officer and enlisted QTRS.
TEMPORARY STORAGE. See STORAGE IN TRANSIT.
TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. (As released by the Office of the
Geographer and Global Issues, 1 July 1997.)
A. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, i.e., Saipan, Saipan Lagoon, Tinian, Aquijan, Rota, Farallon
De Pajaros (Uracas), Maug, Asuncion, Agrihan, Pagan, Alamagan, Zealandia Banks, Guguan, Sarigan, Anatathan,
Farallon De Medinilla, Esmeralda Banks, and Northern Islands Sanctuary. (Island names from website:
www.saipan.com).
B. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
C. American Samoa
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