We recall this story from June 2023: Air Force uses taxpayer money for personnel to travel to pride events in DC where a memo sent out by the Department of Air Force’s DEI office encouraged and FUNDED Air Force personnel to OFFICIALLY travel to Washington, DC (an expensive place) to partake in DEI “Pride Month” activities at the Pentagon and in the city.
This was an outrageous waste of not only American taxpayer’s hard earned money but also of government personnel time on this frivolous unserious activity. STARRS called out this nonsense and Senators put the quash on it.
The Department of the Air Force has now issued a new memorandum only allowing travel for essential mission purposes:
The Department of Defense released the memorandum Interim Guidance for Executive Order 14222, “Implementing the President’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ Cost Efficiency Initiative,” providing interim DAF guidance for military members and civilian employees who are presently on TDY, or traveling on PCS orders, or are scheduled to begin such travel soon.
Effective immediately, the DAF will limit travel to only essential purposes. Essential travel shall include travel for:
(1) Professional Military Education,
(2) military training or exercises,
(3) training or education that directly supports or is a prerequisite for a military member or employee’s assigned duties,
(4) performance of an official duty or organizational mission requirement (e.g. negotiations, inspections, audits, etc.),
(5) military members, civilian employees and dependents on PCS orders,
(6) travel by members of the Air Reserve Component to perform duty or for training and
(7) other travel as deemed essential by the first General Officer in the chain of command, or Senior Executive Service supervisor.
The full memorandum is available here and attachment here.
Memo_on_Travel_Policy (pdf)
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