A U.S. Navy memo released this month outlines guidelines for sailors’ mandatory use of government travel charge cards.

The instruction was announced through a NAVADMIN message directed toward service members traveling for a permanent change-of-station. They are required to use the card for travel expenses such as lodging, meals, and transportation, according to the memo.

Pentagon policy stipulates that the card is to be used by eligible Defense Department travelers for “costs related to official government travel,” the memo said, meaning “travel under official orders while performing duties pertaining to official government assignments,” such as temporary duty or permanent change of station.

Travel advances will not be handed out for sailors with the travel card, the memo said, exce

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