MCO 7220.39D governs the determination and use of standard/flat rate deployed per diem allowances for UDP travel.
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It establishes authority for per diem rates for units deployed OCONUS and addresses payment, reporting, and rate computation. It also sets validation requirements and identifies circumstances in which deployed per diem is not paid.
Applies to: This Order applies to all travel in conjunction with the rotation of units to WESTPAC under the Unit Deployment Program (UDP), except for members performing concurrent TAD away from the deployed unit and advance/rear parties.
Deployed per diem allowances will be computed in such a way that their use will result in the individual member’s total per diem entitlement being approximately the same as if determined using the procedures in paragraph U4105 of reference (a). (paragraph 5)
BOQ/BEQ charges will not be considered in developing deployed per diem allowances. (paragraph 5)
Surcharges for meals sold to officers will not be levied during actual periods of field duty, since periods of field duty were considered in establishing the deployed per diem rate. (paragraph 5)
Reimbursement for occasional meals is not authorized. (paragraph 5)
Deployed per diem will not be paid when an individual is at sea, in the hospital, UA, confined, in the hands of foreign authorities, at an alcohol/drug rehabilitation center for treatment, on leave, in a group travel status, or entitled to locality rate per diem since reference (a) precludes any such per diem payment. (paragraph 5)