§18505. Reserves traveling for annual training duty or inactive-duty training: space-required travel on military aircraft
(a) A member of a reserve component traveling for annual training duty or inactive-duty training (including a place other than the place of the member's unit training assembly if the member is performing annual training duty or inactive-duty training in another location) may travel in a space-required status on aircraft of the armed forces between the member's home and the place of the annual training duty or inactive-duty training.
(b) A member traveling in a space-required status on any such aircraft under subsection (a) is not authorized to receive travel, transportation, or per diem allowances in connection with that travel.
(Added
Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title V, §517(a)(1), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 594
; amended
Pub. L. 106–398, §1 [[div. A], title III, §384(a), (b)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654
, 1654A-87.)
Amendments
2000-Pub. L. 106–398, §1 [[div. A], title III, §384(b)(1)], substituted "Reserves traveling for annual training duty or inactive-duty training: space-required travel on military aircraft" for "Reserves traveling to inactive-duty training OCONUS: authority for space-required travel" as section catchline.
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–398, §1 [[div. A], title III, §384(a)], amended subsec. (a) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (a) read as follows: "In the case of a member of a reserve component whose place of inactive-duty training is outside the contiguous States (including a place other than the place of the member's unit training assembly if the member is performing the inactive-duty training in another location), the member may travel in a space-required status on aircraft of the armed forces between the member's home and the place of such training if there is no transportation between those locations by means of road or railroad (or a combination of road and railroad)."
Effective Date
Pub. L. 106–65, div. A, title V, §517(c), Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 595
, provided that: "The amendments made by this section [enacting this section] shall apply with respect to travel commencing on or after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 5, 1999]."