MARADMIN 192/20 - COVID-19 Supplemental Personnel Guidance for Commanders

Scope

MARADMIN 192/20 provides supplemental military personnel guidance to commanders for personnel policies, pay, and benefits during the COVID-19 response. The MARADMIN clarifies MARADMIN 162/20 and MARADMIN 167/20 and updates travel restrictions. The source page reads CANCELLED. Applicability is the Marine Corps Total Force.

Audience

• Commanders. Apply travel restrictions, leave rules, and alternate duty locations.
• Pay and disbursing offices. Process HDP-ROM, BAS-II, FSH-B, FSH-O, TLA, TLE, FSA, and per diem authorizations under the temporary framework.
• Marines and civilian employees, and their family members.
• HQMC MMIB-1. Adjudicates PCS travel exceptions.

Travel restrictions

• All PCS travel stopped. All non-mission essential non-PCS official travel stopped. Effective through 2020-05-11.
• All travel to, from, or through locations outside the United States and territories stopped. Effective through at least 2020-05-11. Does not apply to personnel under a US Chief of Mission.
• Exemptions. Personnel pending retirement or separation through 2020-05-11. Patients and medical providers. Personnel who already initiated travel before the stop movement date. Presidential support duties. Secret Service support.
• Exception authority. Combatant Commander for COCOM Marines. First GO/FO/SES in the chain for all others.

Pay and allowances framework

• Travel status. Per diem (isolation). TLE. TLA. FSA-T.
• Non-travel status. FSA-R. HDP-ROM. Concurrent BAS plus government meals. BAS-II rate. FSH-B. FSH-O.
• HDP-ROM. Flat $100 per day. Cap $1,500 per month.
• GTCC for lodging within PDS vicinity. Under $100 per day threshold. Marines pay statement balance in full.

Reserve Component flexibility

• Rescheduling Annual Training and IDT. Commanders exercise broad discretion.
• Telecommuting for IDT. Temporarily authorized. DD Form 2946 requirement waivable. Telecommuting log required.
• Electronic-Based Distributed Learning (EBDL). Authorized retirement point accrual.
• Reenlistment. Local Command Authority extension up to 3 months for SMCR/IRR/IMA Marines with RECC between 2020-03-16 and 2020-06-01.

Connection to higher policy

• OSD Memorandum. Travel restrictions for DoD components in response to COVID-19.
• OSD Memorandum dated 2020-03-13. Stop movement for all domestic travel.
• ASD(MRA) Memorandum dated 2020-03-23. Military personnel guidance.
• DSD Memorandum dated 2020-03-17. Exemption to stop movement.
• ASN(MRA) Memorandum dated 2020-03-18. Maintaining and protecting DON accessions supply chain.

Connection to Marine Corps doctrine

• MCO 5320.12H. Precedence Levels for Manning and Staffing.
• MCO 1001R.1L w/CH-1. Marine Corps Reserve Administrative Management Manual (MCRAMM).
• MCO 12271.1. Telework for Civilian Marines.
• MARADMIN 082/20, 150/20, 162/20, 167/20. The COVID-19 disease containment series.
• MARADMIN 754/20. COVID-19 Vaccine Guidance.

Status

Released 2020-03-26, DTG R 262119Z MAR 20. Originator CMC Washington DC. Release authorized by Lieutenant General M. A. Rocco, Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. Applicability is the Marine Corps Total Force. The source page reads CANCELLED. Use this entry for historical context on the COVID-19 personnel framework.