Authorized Leave/Permissive Temporary Duty (PTDY) and Travel for Job-Hunters
Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Military
Department concerned may authorize administrative absence for any of the purposes outlined below
for Service members:
Participation in pre-separation job search and house hunting activities that facilitate
relocation of members. The permissive temporary duty (PTDY) authority to facilitate transition
into civilian life for house and job hunting for military members being involuntarily separated
under honorable conditions or retiring from active duty is extended indefinitely.
The Secretary concerned:
Shall grant members being discharged or released from active service as involuntary separatees
under honorable conditions as defined in section 1141 of Title 10 of the United States Code such
excess leave for a period not in excess of 30 days, or such transition PTDY not to exceed 10 days,
as members require to facilitate relocation, unless to do so would interfere with military
missions; and may authorize for members described above and for those being retired:
- An additional 20 days up to a total of 30 days transition PTDY for those members stationed
outside the Continental United States (CONUS).
- An additional 10 days up to a total of 20 days transition PTDY for those members stationed in
the CONUS.
- An additional 20 days up to a total of 30 days transition PTDY for those members who were
domiciliaries before entering active duty and continue to be domiciliaries of States, possessions
or territories of the United States located outside the continental United States (CONUS),
including domiciliaries of foreign countries, and are stationed at a location other than the State,
possession, territory or country of their domicile. Members may be authorized up to a total of
30 days transition PTDY only for house and job-hunting to the State, territory, possession or
country of their domicile.
Regulations permit you to use excess leave or permissive temporary duty (PTDY) in accordance
with the following guidance:
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If you are an eligible involuntary separatee or a retiree: Your spouse may
take one round trip on the military aircraft for house and job hunting, on a space-available basis
and unaccompanied by a military spouse.
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If you are attending a Department of Defense-approved transition assistance
seminar: If you are using excess leave, PTDY, or temporary additional duty to attend the
seminar, you are authorized to use military air transportation, if available.
- Service members separating at the end of a normal term of service (ETS – Expiration Term of
Service) or (EAOS – End of Active Duty Obligated Service) are not eligible for PDTY.
If you are traveling from overseas to CONUS to attend such a seminar, your spouse can
accompany you on military air transportation on a space-available basis. Your spouse is
not authorized to travel within CONUS.
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Unless a service member falls into one of the above categories, he/she is not
eligible.
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