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You must check with your command on their policy.  BTW, with few exceptions (to include new appointees/recruits, hospital patients, and prisoners) Public Law 105-264 (The Travel and Transportation Reform Act of 1998) and DoD FMR, Volume 9, Chapter 3 mandate the use of the Government Travel Charge Card for all official government travel unless exempt.  A complete list of exemptions can be found in DoD FMR, Volume 9, Chapter 3.  The SEA does not allow your command access to a “Fund Site,” or issuing paper orders.

For active-duty Navy attending on TAD/TDY orders, the SEA covers the cost of the following:

• GSA Contract Airfare or POV from your Duty Station/Homeport to/from Newport,
• Lodging at NGIS (on base),
• Meals and Incidentals (MI&E),
• Transportation to/from the PVD airport, and
• Mileage by POV to/from your local airport.

Yes.  POV travel is authorized.  However, mileage reimbursement cannot exceed the cost of the round-trip airfare per the JTR. Orders must be entered and authorized in DTS, which include a Constructed Travel Worksheet (CTW) and flight screenshots from and to Duty Station/Homeport.

 

Rental cars are not authorized on SEA-funded travel orders.

No.  ATM fees and dry cleaning are no longer an expense you can claim for reimbursement per the JTR.

No.  The SEA will not pay for baggage fees.  As an active-duty service member, you are allowed free checked baggage (as long as you do not say “yes” to checking bags when doing online check-in).  All bags should be checked in curbside or at the ticket counter; you will be required to show your orders and/or military ID.  Airlines will charge if your bag weight is over the allowed free limit.

YES -- but do not book through DTS.  Once Blackboard becomes available, announcements will have specific instructions. Although the SEA has blocked rooms reserved for you in our local  Navy Gateway Inns and Suites (NGIS), you still need to call NGIS and identify yourself as a SEA student and provide the class number you will be attending to confirm your room.  Service members need to notify the SEA on any variations to arrival and departure.  If NGIS gives you a CNA (Certificate of Non-Availability), please refer to Blackboard announcements for information on local, SEA-recommended hotels available to you at a discounted rate.

Within 5 days of your last travel day.

Yes.

Only if your travel department is T-entering or signing your voucher for you, then the DD1351-2 must be signed by you, the person you gave the form to must sign, and the date the person received it, and include your full Social Security Number.

The SEA does not mail out Welcome Aboard packages. All the information you need is available on our website.

Due to security precautions, the average turnaround time for an "overnight package" is 3 business days.

The SEA does not generate a transcript.  Students must submit a request to the American Council on Education (ACE) requesting an evaluation for credit which is then submitted to the institution of their choice.  ACE will require the Joint Services Transcript (JST)  showing graduation from the school.  Note that SEA graduation can take several weeks to post to the JST.

Please contact our student DTS coordinator.  See our Contact Us  page to reach out to our “Travel/DTS Coordinator” through our contact form or call:

Lodging, lines of accounting or GOVCC questions:
(401) 841-4223
DSN 841-4223
 
Authorizations or vouchers questions:
401-841-2794 or 401-841-4469
DSN 841-2794 or 841-4469

Sailors should contact their command education services officer or command career counselor or their administrative office for guidance and assistance with exam cycle discrepancy corrections  via applicable exam cycle enlisted advancement worksheet (EAW) Post-Exam Admin (PAC) submission. See https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Career-Management/Community-Management/Enlisted-Career-Admin/Advancement/

Warrior Toughness (WT) is an evidence-based, holistic, individualized human performance skillset that strengthens the mental, physical, and spiritual toughness with a particular emphasis on the pursuit of peak performance. WT training emphasizes coequal development of mental, physical, and spiritual toughness. The program provides performance psychology skills and character development, and teaches the Warrior Mindset whose concepts were initially developed by Naval Special Warfare.

Warrior Toughness pilots were conducted at Recruit Training Command (RTC), Navy Nuclear Power Training Command and Submarine Group 10. The initial feedback from these locations is Sailors perform better, they are more focused, better prepared for class and evolutions, have less tardiness, and higher physical readiness scores. At RTC recruits had higher graduation rates.

Warrior Toughness is performance-focused and designed to teach Sailors a variety of skills they can apply daily, weekly, and when needed to be able to perform at the top of their ability. Resilience is focused on the health and well-being of Sailors to allow them to be the most ready they can be to face any scenario.

No. Warrior Toughness skills and concepts are useful for all personnel from the most junior to the most senior. The Warrior Toughness campaign plan includes creating a continuum of Warrior Toughness across a Sailor’s and Officer’s career.

A key resilience program already in motion is the E-OSC program—a revamp from what used to be the Operational Stress Control program—that is equipping Sailors to help each other get through challenges. Conducted in concert with the Command Resilience Team, feedback from the fleet has been positive as units have expressed that E-OSC has helped foster a culture of resilience on the deck plate.