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months to permit an orderly and systematic rotation of personnel or where such action is in the best interest of the service, and are authorized to make final decision in each case shown in c and e below.

BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE:

OFFICIAL:

N. F. TWINING

Chief of Staff, United States Air Force.

K. E. THIEBAUD

Colonel, USAF

Air Adjutant General

1 Attachment:

Tours of Duty (Revised)

DISTRIBUTION:

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DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY

Bureau of Naval Personnel

Washington 25, D. C.

BUPERS 1300.15A

Pers-B1115-WJC: vwk 27 April 1954

BUPERS INSTRUCTION 1300.15A

From: Chief of Naval Personnel

To: All Ships and Stations

Subj: Length of tours of overseas service

Ref: (a) BUPERSINST 1301.7

(b) BUPERSINST 1306.20A

(c) BUPERSINST 1300.19

1. Purpose. To prescribe the length of tours of overseas service.

2. Cancellation.-BUPERS Instruction 1300.15 is hereby canceled and superseded.

3. General Information

a. The provisions of this Instruction apply to naval personnel, except insular forces, performing overseas service at activities under naval administration. For those naval personnel who are serving with other departments or agencies, and who are subject to reassignment by those departments or agencies, the length of tour of overseas duty will be as prescribed by the department or agency concerned.

b. Overseas service is defined as duty performed ashore at naval activities beyond the continental limits of the United States and on board nonrotated naval vessels in the European and Asiatic areas.

c. A normal tour of overseas service will be considered completed when an individual has spent the established period in the locality concerned, exclusive of transit time to and from the locality. Personnel transferred from one overseas area to another will be credited with the time served in the first area.

d. Personnel completing a tour of overseas duty will normally be reassigned in accordance with references (a), (b), or (c) as appropriate, unless they have been granted an extension or transfer to another overseas locality. A request for an extension may normally be granted for a maximum of 1 year, except as indicated below, at the discretion of the appropriate administrative command, provided that forwarding endorsements indicate that such extensions would be in the best interests of the service and that the individual is psychologically and physically adapted to such extensions.

e. The established tours of overseas service are considered as a guide for the assignment of naval personnel to overseas duty stations. Variation from the prescribed tours may be necessary to meet special conditions. Tours of duty at all overseas activities are considered to be 24 months, except as indicated in paragraph 4.

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Midway.

12; 18 if dependents are on station.

12 followed by rotation to Oahu to complete 24-month tour.

Morocco (Casablanca and Port 18; 24 months if dependents are on station.

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Nonrotated ships and staffs 18 or 24 if dependents are on station.

afloat in European area.

J. L. HOLLOWAY, Jr., Chief of Naval Personnel.

1 If dependents are authorized to join personnel after rotation to more desirable station, tour completion date will be extended.

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In those instances where this revised attachment indicates a tour was lengthened, the longer tour applies to personnel departing zone of interior ports of embarkation on or after the date indicated. Not applicable.

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Ref: (a) Marine Corps Memorandum No. 28–54
(b) CMC ltr A01-sls of 29 Mar 1954 to CG DofP

(c) Paragraph 7054, 7105, and 7157, Marine Corps Manual

1. References (a) and (b) are hereby cancelled.

2. Reference (c) sets forth the normal tour of duty for sea and foreign service for all personnel, which is 24 months, including travel time to and from foreign station.

3. Effective immediately, the following tours of duty are established for all personnel (except where noted) at the below named stations:

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Followed by rotation to Security Forces, Japan, or Hawaiian Islands, to complete 24 months' tour of foreign duty.

16 months minimum after arrival of dependents on station.

3 Tour of duty controlled by Commanding General, F eet Marine Force, Pacific.

4 Duty on station. Excludes travel time to and from Thailand.

4. Reference (c) applies to all overseas stations and activities not listed above, except for Fleet Marine Force units which have tours of duty prescribed by separate directives based on established rotational policies.

5. Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, and Commanding General, Department of the Pacific, are authorized to grant approval of requests for extensions for enlisted personnel at appropriate stations listed in paragraph 3, provided such approval will not result in a tour of foreign duty in excess of 24 months. At the discretion of the Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, and the Commanding General, Department of the Pacific, authority is granted to authorize a 24-month tour of duty on station for personnel in the grade of sergeant or below who are assigned to duty in Security Force units directly from a Fleet Marine Force activity located in the Far East, provided the enlisted person so requests in writing and provided sufficiently obligated active service remains. Requests for extensions of tours of duty at the stations not under the cognizance of the aforementioned commands will receive consideration by this Headquarters.

6. Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific, and Commanding General, Department of the Pacific, are authorized to transfer enlisted personnel requesting transfer from Security Forces to Fleet Marine Force units in the Far

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