51007 SUBSISTENCE FOR NIGHT WATCHES

51008 FIELD RATIONS

1. The issue and accounting for field type rations will be as prescribed in Part D, Chapter 54.

51009 FLIGHT RATIONS

1. The act of June 5, 1942 (56 Stat. 308) provides that officers, enlisted personnel, and civil employees of the Navy and Marine Corps, while actually engaged in flight operations, may be furnished an aircraft flight ration in kind, chargeable to the proper Navy or Marine Corps appropriation, which flight ration will be supplementary to any ration or subsistence allowance now granted to such personnel. No part of an aircraft flight ration is to be furnished without cost to any person in a travel status or to any person to whom a per diem allowance granted in lieu of actual subsistence.

2. A flight ration is an allowance of provisions provided daily for officers, enlisted personnel, and civil employees of the Navy and Marine Corps, while engaged in flight operations; on duty traveling aboard aircraft; or on watch in an airplane at anchor during regular meal hours and to whom regular messing facilities are not accessible because of such conditions.

The

value of a flight ration may not exceed $1.80 for each three meals served when composed of regular and authorized special items of provi

sions.

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3. Flight rations may be issued in the form of prepared meals, ration components, frozen precooked meals, or box lunches. Figure 51-1 properly filled out as indicated, contains all the information required for the issuing of and receipt of flight rations.

4. When officers in a travel status entitling them to actual and necessary expenses or a per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence and officers entitled to air transport service per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence are furnished flight rations, cash payment for each meal so provided will be required at the rate of $0.40 for breakfast, $0.80 for dinner and $0.60 for supper when meals are composed of regular and authorized special items of provisions; $0.85 for each meal when meals served are in the form of frozen precooked meals; and $0.60 for each box lunch served in lieu of meals.

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9. Payment for the flight rations furnished will be required prior to departure of the plane. The squadron commander, or his designated officer representative, will be held responsible for the cash collected for the meals furnished. If other than the supply officer, such officer will turn in to the supply officer all cash so collected, with a list of the total number and type of meals or box lunches sold to personnel not entitled to a ration at Government expense.

10. When due to mechanical failures of equipment, or for other reasons, passengers or crew members cannot be served meals for which money has been collected, the squadron commander, air transport officer, or other designated officer representative responsible for the collection of cash, at the next stop where money for meals is regularly collected, will refund the exact amount collected. Such refunds to the passengers or crew members will be made from funds previously collected and on hand as authorized in subparagraph 9.

11. All cash received in excess of $50. by the squadron commander or his designated officer representative, must be turned over daily to the issuing commissary officer. All cash received in excess of $50. by the commissary officer may be turned over daily to a disbursing officer but must be so turned over at least twice a week. On the last day of the month, or on the date of detachment of the supply (commissary) officer or squadron commander (or his designated officer representative responsible for the collection of cash), necessary forwarding of all cash on hand will be made so that all cash collected for flight rations during that month will be deposited with a disbursing officer. In all cases of forwarding of funds, the receiving officer will furnish the forwarding officer with a receipt for such funds.

12. When stops are made en route at suitable hours, it may be desirable for the crew and passengers to have a hot meal in the general mess. The supply officer at the air station where stops are to be made will be informed in advance, usually from the departure report, as to the

1. General messes are composed of, and their daily ration credit established by, the number of enlisted personnel composing the command and present for rations. Other enlisted personnel present for rations but not composing part of the command are known as supernumeraries. Their presence for rations will be reported under the heading "Additions" as "others attached” or “Navy supernumeraries" in the column provided for this purpose on the monthly ration memorandum, Form NAVMC-828-SD. Where such additional members of a mess belong to other branches of the service, the settlement for rations is effected by a transfer of appropriations. The governing price for supernumerary rations furnished enlisted personnel will be the current established price of the ration.

51015 PAID SUPERNUMERARY RATIONS

1. All additional persons furnished meals in a general mess, and who are required to pay for such meals, are known as paid supernumeraries, and their presence is also reported in a separate column provided for such purpose on Form NAVMC-828-SD. Personnel authorized to purchase cooked meals in the general mess as supernumeraries shall be charged an appropri

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ate percentage of the established price of the ration (computed in accordance with paragraph 51062, or as established by the Quartermaster General of the Marine Corps), i. percent for breakfast, 50 percent for dinner (noon meal) and 25 percent for supper. When computing the price to be charged for each meal the fractions resulting will be disregarded and the cost of the meal increased to the next cent, i. e. :

Unit Cost of Ration 1.1084 Breakfast (25 percent of unit)-25 percent of 1.1084=0.2771=28¢ sales price.

Dinner (50 percent of unit)-50 percent of 1.1084= 0.5542=56¢ sales price.

Supper (25 percent of unit)-25 percent of 1.1084= 0.2771=28¢ sales price.

The normal 3 percent overhead charge will not be added to these sales. The money received from the sale of such rations shall be reported on the Mess Officer's Report of Paid Supernumerary Rations, Form 828a-SD. The total receipts shall be reported on the Form 828a-SD crediting the amount of the total number of rations sold multiplied by the unit cost of the ration to the appropriation "General Expenses, Marine Corps," and the difference remaining as the result of increasing the cost due to fractions shall be credited to Miscellaneous Receipts. (See Figure 51-5.)

2. Enlisted personnel drawing subsistence allowances as described in paragraph 51003 are prohibited from being subsisted in the general mess as paid supernumeraries.

3. All persons subsisted in a general mess as paid supernumeraries are required to pay cash for the meal at the time it is served.

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