May APF be used to purchase tickets for the Single Marine Program?
Yes, for Marines only. Since the Single Marine Program is a Category A MCCS MWR activity, it is authorized up to 100% APF support. As with all expenditures of APF, a determination must be made that purchases and expenditures are necessary to the mission of the organization (“necessary expense rule”). The command involved must make that determination on a case-by-case basis. Therefore, since there is no specific prohibition against purchasing “tickets” and given a necessary expense determination by the command, a ticket for a single Marine to participate in a specific event or activity which promotes the purposes of the Single Marine Program (and is not otherwise inappropriate), could be purchased with APF within currently available funding.
