JTR Regarding Off-Base Short-Term Rentals
The Joint Travel Regulations (JTR) governs all of the rules while TDY in the military. As cited in the JTR, page 2-27 (table 2-14) and page 2-28 (table 2-14): “If adequate government quarters are available on the U.S. installation to which a Service member is assigned TDY, but the Service member chooses to use other lodging, then the Service member is limited to the reimbursement cost of Government quarters on the assigned TDY installation.”
In addition, when you create your orders in DTS and opt to “skip this lodging booking option”, DTS states the following: “The reimbursement for a traveler that declines available government or preferred commercial lodging is limited to the rate that the government would have paid if used.”
What does all of this mean? It means that you are guaranteed the current government rate, $84.00 per night, wherever you choose to stay. This means that you DO NOT need a Non-Availability slip to stay in a crashpad! (All that the Non-Availability slip provides you is more authorized $ to use per night’s stay).
Conveniently, we charge $84.50 per night! This means that you are guaranteed to be reimbursed by the Air Force. In addition, you will be saving money for your home unit’s annual TDY budget!
In addition, to make sure you pay nothing out of pocket, we will honor changes in dates to your TDY as well as honor leave that you take while TDY (holidays or planned/emergency leave for example)! We will not charge you for nights that the military would not have reimbursed you!
In addition, when you create your orders in DTS and opt to “skip this lodging booking option”, DTS states the following: “The reimbursement for a traveler that declines available government or preferred commercial lodging is limited to the rate that the government would have paid if used.”
What does all of this mean? It means that you are guaranteed the current government rate, $84.00 per night, wherever you choose to stay. This means that you DO NOT need a Non-Availability slip to stay in a crashpad! (All that the Non-Availability slip provides you is more authorized $ to use per night’s stay).
Conveniently, we charge $84.50 per night! This means that you are guaranteed to be reimbursed by the Air Force. In addition, you will be saving money for your home unit’s annual TDY budget!
In addition, to make sure you pay nothing out of pocket, we will honor changes in dates to your TDY as well as honor leave that you take while TDY (holidays or planned/emergency leave for example)! We will not charge you for nights that the military would not have reimbursed you!