UTD/CTD for MAP/CAP 27-24(I) Miscellaneous Corrections | This item corrects miscellaneous minor grammatical errors in the Joint Travel Regulations. | 5/1/2024 |
UTD/CTD for MAP/CAP 28-25(I), Miscellaneous Corrections | This item corrects miscellaneous grammatical errors, reorganizes Table 1-1, renumbers Table 2-8, and renames the title of Table 5-85 in the Joint Travel Regulations. Effective June 1, 2025. | 6/1/2025 |
UTD/CTD FOR MAP/CAP 30-25(I), Clarify the 800 Mile Roundtrip Rule for Privately Owned Airplane, Boat, or Helicopter | This item clarifies that the 400 miles one way/800-miles roundtrip policy does not apply to privately owned vehicle travel by airplane, boat, or helicopter. If a traveler elects to use a privately owned airplane, boat, or helicopter, then a cost comparison is required regardless of the distance traveled to the temporary duty location. Effective May 1, 2025. | 5/1/2025 |
UTD/CTD for MAP/CAP 31-24(E), Add Jordan, Joint Training Center, as an Administrative Household Goods (HHG) Weight Allowance Location | This item adds Jordan, Joint Training Center, as an administrative Household Goods (HHG) Weight Allowance Location. In accordance with the Joint Travel Regulations (JTR), paragraph 051402, household goods (HHG) weight allowances can be administratively reduced at a permanent duty station (PDS) outside the continental United States (OCONUS) based on conditions at that location. Effective on June 18, 2024. | 6/18/2024 |
UTD/CTD FOR MAP/CAP 31-25(E), Reimbursement of Multiple Travelers Renting a Vehicle and Purchasing Fuel | This item adds the authority JTR, par. 020209 and Table 2-8 to reimburse rental car fuel and oil expenses to additional travelers when properly listed on the Company rental documentation or rental agreement under the U.S. Government Rental Car Agreement #5, paragraph 16. Additional drivers added to the documentation may be reimbursed for fuel charges. However, all other charges identified in Table 2-8 shall remain only reimbursable to the traveler booking the rental vehicle. Effective June 1, 2025. | 6/1/2025 |
UTD/CTD for MAP/CAP 34-25(I), Recertification of Moscow, Russia as a Funded Environmental and Moral Leave Locations and Destinations | This item updates the Joint Travel Regulations Supplement, “Funded Environmental and Moral Leave (FEML) Locations and Destinations,” to recertify Moscow, Russia as a FEML duty location, effective March 31, 2025. Effective when published on the website. | 4/16/2025 |
UTD/CTD for MAP/CAP 36-22(I), Replace "Gas" with "Fuel" | The Federal Register was updated to implement a final rule proposed by the General Services Administration. The update changes references of “gas” to “fuel” and further defines fuel to account for other types of vehicle power sources, such as hydrogen, propane, and electricity. See Federal Register notice Vol. 87, No. 78, Friday, April 22, 2022. | 5/23/2022 |
UTD/CTD FOR MAP/CAP 36-25(E), Privately Owned Vehicle (POV) Definition Update | This item modifies the current definition of POV in Joint Travel Regulations (JTR), Appendix A. A request to update the definition and clarify that vehicles shipped as a POV are being used as the primary means of transportation at the new PDS related to the execution of Global POV Contract V (GPC V). The update shall also clarify that large RVs, such as the Class A and C, are precluded from the usage of the POV shipping and storage entitlements. Effective June 1, 2025. | 6/1/2025 |
UTD/CTD for MAP/CAP 38-24(I), Clarify Designated Individual is Replaced by Family Member | This item clarifies that due to statutory changes, 37 USC §452(b)(12) and (13) authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide travel and transportation to family members of Service members for their presence at a military medical facility incident to the injury or illness of members or at the repatriation of members held captive. Family member with respect to a member of the Uniformed Services is defined in 37 USC §451(a)(3). For civilian employees serving in a foreign location, 10 USC §1599b authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide civilian employees and members of their families abroad with benefits that are comparable to certain benefits provided by the Secretary of State to members of the Foreign Service. 22 USC §4081 (9) authorizes the Secretary of State to provide roundtrip travel for family members to an employee’s post of assignment only where the family of the employee is prevented by official order from residing at such post. Neither 22 USC §4081 nor 16 Foreign Area Manual (FAM) 300 offer a specific definition of the term family member. Effective November 1, 2024. | 11/1/2024 |
UTD/CTD FOR MAP/CAP 40-25(I), Clarify Table 2-24 Miscellaneous Expenses not Listed Elsewhere | This item clarifies late payment fee and international transaction fee in the Joint Travel Regulations (JTR), Table 2-24 Miscellaneous Expenses not Listed Elsewhere. Effective June 1, 2025. | 6/1/2025 |