MCO 1000.6 - Assignment, Classification, and Travel System Manual (ACTSMAN)

Scope

MCO 1000.6, the Assignment, Classification, and Travel System Manual, known as the ACTSMAN, provides guidance for personnel management across the Marine Corps. Personnel management is the planning, organizing, directing, and supervising of the procurement, development, use, and administration of personnel. The order is the procedural backbone for assignment, classification, and travel decisions reaching every Marine. Instructions in the order do not amend Navy Regulations or Navy Department General Orders.

Audience

• Every Marine, through MOS classification, billet assignment, and PCS or TAD travel.
• S-1 and IPAC personnel executing the procedural sequences in the field.
• Monitors at MMOA and MMEA, and Reserve Affairs for the reserve component.
• Commanders implementing the framework and signing the endorsements travel orders require.

Chapter map

• Chapter 1. General policy for classification, assignment, distribution, and transfers. Section 1 classification, Section 2 assignment and distribution, Section 3 transfers.
• Chapter 2. Classification, assignment, and distribution of officers. Section 1 classification, Section 2 assignment and distribution.
• Chapter 3. Classification, assignment, and distribution of enlisted personnel. Section 1 classification, Section 2 distribution, Section 3 assignment, Section 4 transfer.
• Chapter 4. Travel of Marine Corps personnel and dependents. Section 1 regulatory instructions and general information on travel orders, Section 2 travel time and modes of travel, Section 3 proceed time and delay, Section 4 types of orders, Section 5 special orders.
• Appendix A. Glossary of terms, followed by the index.

Billet assignment

Chapter 1 Section 2 paragraph 1 carries the rules.

• MCTFS is the single authoritative source documenting uniformed manpower to structure, including the Billet Identification Code, the billet description, and the billet MOS.
• A Marine reports a BIC or an Excess BIC Indicator in MCTFS within 10 days of joining a new permanent duty station.
• Assignments run one grade above or below the grade the BIC requires, except at O-6 and above. A Marine holding a primary MOS in the same occupational field fills a BIC with similar MOS qualifications when no vacancy exists at the grade and MOS.
• Two Marines fill the same BIC only during a 90-day turnover tied to a Headquarters-directed assignment. When two Marines of the same grade and MOS meet one open BIC, the Marine with the longest time remaining on station takes the BIC and the other takes an EBI.
• Active component EBI codes. EX101 MOS and grade match, EX102 MOS match without grade match, EX103 neither match, EX104 administrative join or attachment.
• Reserve component EBI codes. EX001 through EX003 obligor across the same three match conditions, EX004 through EX006 the non-obligor equivalents, EX007 obligor unsatisfactory participant, EX008 obligor pending medical separation.

Hazardous duty and flight status

• Demolition duty pay is not continuous. The requirement performs monthly, and pay authorizes only for the months in which demolition of explosives occurred. Chapter 1 Section 2 paragraph 7.
• Unit commanders submit monthly letters validating who met the requirement, who did not, and who terminated from the assignment, each entry carrying name, rank, and EDIPI. Authorization letters maintain and inspect at the supported unit level, unit diary accuracy and reporting timeliness inspect at the reporting unit level. Supporting documentation retains 24 months.
• Aviation terminology sets the aviation service entry date, the officer service date, the operational flying time base date, and the two flying duty assignments, DIFOP and DIFDEN. Continuous entitlement pays regardless of assignment, monthly entitlement pays only in a DIFOP assignment against flying hour minimums.
• Temporary medical incapacitation disqualifies aeronautically designated personnel after 180 days, permanent incapacitation terminates entitlement after 365 days.
• The Field Flight Performance Board and the Flight Status Selection Board run the flight status review process. The FFPB timeline allows 30 calendar days from incident to report, 20 each for the group and wing endorsements and for final action, 90 days total.

Transfers

• Humanitarian transfer solves short-term situations, defined in the order as 36 months or less, the normal CONUS tour length. Retention on station normally approves for 12 months. Permissive TAD runs up to six months when no billet vacancy exists near the hardship, with no per diem or travel expense, and travel time charges as annual leave.
• Immediate family, for this purpose, means the spouse, natural or step-children, brothers, sisters, and the Marine's or spouse's parents, plus anyone standing in loco parentis for at least two years before the Marine entered active duty.
• A Marine under humanitarian transfer action carries reenlistment code RE-3C, assigned and later removed by Page 11 entry. The code is administrative and not punitive, and revokes once the Marine notifies Headquarters the situation resolved.
• Farming, mining, personal business ventures, personal legal matters, and moral support alone do not receive favorable consideration.

Travel

• Constructive travel time for land travel computes at one day per 350 miles by privately owned conveyance, with one additional day for any fraction over 51 miles, and one day for any commercial mode regardless of distance. When the official distance falls under 401 miles, one day of travel allows regardless of mode. Chapter 4 Section 2.
• Proceed time runs four days maximum and is not chargeable to the leave account. It authorizes only on a move to or from a dependent-restricted or unaccompanied overseas tour or a homeport change, and only when the Marine relocates dependents or household goods in fact.
• A course of 20 weeks or more makes the school the permanent duty station and the orders PCS. Schoolhouse training anticipated beyond 140 days issues as PCS rather than temporary duty. Temporary duty beyond 180 days requires approval before the 179th day.
• Travel claims submit to the disbursing officer within five working days after completing travel. Failure starts recovery of the full advance.
• Dislocation allowance normally authorizes once per fiscal year. A second move in the same fiscal year requires a Secretary of the Navy finding, with six listed exceptions.

Report required

Field Flight Performance Board Recommendations. Report Control Symbol EXEMPT. Enclosure 1, Chapter 1, Section 2, paragraph 11.g(2).

Reference shelf

The order carries a deep reference list at references (a) through (at). The most-cited supporting documents include.

• DoD 7000.14-R (DODFMR). Pay and travel policy.
• OPNAVINST 7220.4K. Special pays administration.
• MCO P1300.8R. Personnel assignment policies.
• MCO 1050.3J. Leave, liberty, administrative absence.
• MCO P1900.16F. Predecessor MARCORSEPMAN.
• MCO 1620.3A. Absentees and deserters.
• MCO 1754.4B. Exceptional Family Member Program.
• MCO P1020.34G. Marine Corps uniform regulations.
• MCO 7220.12P and MCO 7220.24N. Special and proficiency pay.
• SECNAVINST 5510.30B and OPNAVINST 5510.1H. Personnel and information security.
• MCO P1400.32D. Enlisted promotions.
• MCO P1610.7F. Predecessor performance evaluation manual.
• Joint Federal Travel Regulations (JFTR), now the JTR.
• Marine Corps Travel Instructions Manual (MCTIM).
• SECNAV M-5210.1 and SECNAV M-5214.1. Records and reports management.
• MCTFS PRIUM. Personnel reporting instructions.

Connection to higher policy

• U.S. Navy Regulations and Navy Department General Orders. The order operates inside their framework and amends neither.
• DoD 7000.14-R DoDFMR. Pay and travel policy above the manual.
• The Joint Travel Regulations, carried in the order as the JFTR. The travel entitlement framework.
• SECNAV M-5210.1. Records created under the order manage to NARA-approved dispositions.

Connection to Marine Corps doctrine and lower policy

• MCO 1300.8. Personnel assignment policy, carried here as the predecessor MCO P1300.8R.
• MCTFS PRIUM. The reporting instructions for the transactions the order directs, and the manual pointing back to the ACTSMAN for aviation pay terminology and elapsed time computation.
• MCO 1050.3J. Leave, liberty, and administrative absence, the delay and proceed counterpart.
• MCO 4650.39A. The Defense Travel System, successor to the travel reference the order carries.
• MCO 3571.2H with MARADMIN 361/09 and MARADMIN 728/12. Demolition pay execution beside Chapter 1 Section 2 paragraph 7.

Status

Active. Signed 2013-07-03 by R. E. Milstead, Jr., Deputy Commandant, Manpower and Reserve Affairs. Cancels MCO P1000.6G, the series dropping the P prefix and restarting without a revision letter. Distribution Statement A, PCN 10200010000. Two cautions. The aviation pay content predates the rename to Aviation Incentive Pay, and the MCTFS PRIUM carries enlisted gates, the DIFDEN-2 status, and unmanned aircraft entitlements this order does not, so read the pay chapters against the current PRIUM and DoDFMR. The reference shelf names superseded editions throughout, MCO P1300.8R, MCO P1900.16F, MCO P1610.7F, and the JFTR among them, so confirm each reference against its current revision.