AT POV Travel Reimbursement

All guard/reserve folks hopefully you all had as a productive AT as I had this year!

I live two states away from my guard unit and am on a quarterly drill status. This is the only time throughout the guard year that I can recrew some of the travel costs to help make up for fuel going to all my drills during the other times of the year. As I understand it, we’re not comped for travel going to/from regular drills. Only comped for travel during AT.

I was getting into DTS to sign the voucher for mileage travelled. As I understand, the current mileage is $0.67 per mile to and from AT.

I noticed that in the line of signatures, the amount of mileage was dropped significantly less than what DTS said what I was owed initially. The signature that lowered the amount stated that I “had used a preferred mode of travel (POV) than one directed by the AO.” The gov’t preferred amount was lowered to half the initial amount.

I used a CTW as all other-than-airfare travel should include which showed that I was saving the government more than 30% in transportation costs if I didn’t choose the airfare route.

It looks like DTS is more nuanced than I had thought and thought I was just simply entitled the government travel amount ($0.67 per mile).

I’m not saying that I’ve been cheated or wrong by finance, but could someone help me understand where I could have possibly gone wrong in my thinking here? That way I can save time/money for future AT/drills and that way I can determine if staying in this unit could be somehow mutually beneficial monetarily. I love my unit but love doesn’t pay the bills.

Thanks for reading!