Rental Car Reimbursement Policy Clarification for Reserve Marines

1.  Purpose.  To provide policy clarification on rental car reimbursement for Reserve Marines performing annual training in accordance with references (a) and (b).
2.  Background.  Policy guidance found on page 7-13 of reference (b) presented an example/scenario which may be interpreted prescriptively by commanders, thereby limiting their discretion to authorize the reimbursement of rental cars when in the best interest of the command.  The Marine Corps Reserve Policy Board recommended interim policy clarification be published in advance of being incorporated into the next revision of reference (b).
3.  Reserve Marines ordered to annual training shall normally be billeted and subsist aboard the station to which the unit is assigned for training.  In cases where a Reserve Marine is not billeted aboard the same station (installation) to which the unit is assigned for training, (due to non-availability of billeting, not due to individual preference) the unit is responsible for providing transportation or authorizing reimbursement for transportation from the billeting location to the training location.  Accordingly, commanders may authorize the reimbursement of rental cars when it is in the best interest of the command to do so.  Such reimbursement is unit funded and is therefore at the unit commander's discretion to authorize reimbursement or to provide alternate means of transportation.
4.  This MARADMIN is applicable to the Reserve Component.
5.  Release authorized by MajGen Karl D. Pierson, Director, Reserve Affairs Division