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(4) Routing.
(5) Scheduled time of arrival at the commercial airport or cemetery.
10–8. Visitation
The CAC responsible for the place of interment will contract with a funeral home or other suitable facility to provide
an appropriate place for the PADDs to receive other family members and friends. One visitation not to exceed two
hours is authorized. The CAC arranging the visitation will ensure that all PADDs of the decedent are advised of the
visitation period in sufficient time to attend. Opening the casket or unwrapping the remains is not permitted without the
prior approval of CDR, PERSCOM (TAPC–PED–D).
10–9. Authorized interment allowance
The PADD of each soldier in the group burial is authorized an interment allowance not to exceed the current maximum
allowance for interment of individually identified remains directly consigned to a Government cemetery. This allowance
is submitted on a completed DD Form 1375 with itemized bills attached to the CAC with responsibility for the
place of internment.
10–10. Payment to funeral director
Funeral directors who provide services (including hearse service) for group remains will be paid by the Government on
the basis of the number of caskets handled rather than number of individuals or remains involved.
10–11. Flags with cases and group burial marker
Flags with cases will be provided as prescribed in paragraph 15–1. Group burial marker will be provided as prescribed
in paragraph 16–4.
Chapter 11
Transportation and Travel
Section I
Funeral Travel
11–1. Funeral travel
Federal statutes authorize the Army to provide funeral travel to enable certain persons to attend the funerals of soldiers
who die while on active duty or inactive duty. The travelers entitled to a travel benefit and the authorized travel benefit
varies by statute. Orders issuing authorities must verify each travelers’ entitlement and benefit before issuing funeral
travel orders (see paras 11–2 through 11–5 for specific entitlement and benefit information). Funeral travel is not
provided for re-interments when the remains are disinterred and moved at the PADD’s or other person’s discretion.
a. Only one statute may be applied when determining travel entitlement and benefits for a single interment. The
CAC providing casualty assistance to the PADD must ensure funeral travel entitlement and benefits are adequately
explained to the PADD as part of the mortuary affairs benefits briefing. Funeral travel entitlements and benefits may
affect the PADD’s disposition of remains decisions.
b. Funeral travel will be provided for each authorized interment of a decedent. Under certain conditions a soldier
may be interred in two or more places at two or more different times.
(1) If there are individually identifiable portions for a soldier and the soldier is also included in a group remains (see
chap 8), then the Army will provide funeral travel to both the interment of the individually identified portions arranged
by the PADD and the group interment arranged by the Army.
(2) If a soldier’s remains are individually identified and interred and additional portions of the soldier’s remains are
subsequently recovered and identified, then the Army will not provide funeral travel to the subsequent interment.
11–2. Travel of relatives for either individual or group funeral services (section 411f, title 37, U.S.
Code)
a. See the Joint Federal Travel Regulation (JFTR), volume 1, paragraph U5242A, for detailed entitlement rules.
b. Funeral travel and per diem are authorized for relatives listed in paragraph c below to attend the funeral service of
a soldier who has been on active duty for at least 30 days at the time of death.
c. Persons authorized to travel at Government expense are as follows:
(1) Surviving spouse and dependent children.
(2) If there are no surviving spouse and dependent children, then the decedent’s parents (including stepparents or
parents by adoption or any person, including a former stepparent, who has stood in loco parentis to the soldier at any
time for a continuous period of at least 5 years before the soldier became 21 years of age)
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