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NS Player: The links you provided mention a distinction between active and reserve points. Such that if you have 20 years' worth of "active duty" points then you qualify for an "active duty" retirement. If you also have "inactive points" AKA IDTs, then those are added onto the regular retirement. You can't retire on a regular retirement with 7300 points of IDTs, besides being impossible to accumulate (130 points of IDT per year max).

You absolutely need a cac to do acsc. So being IRR and doing acsc is not possible now. The only way to do acsc without a cac is as a civil air patrol officer, so good luck getting arpc to credit that for your military career. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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What phone do you have? Tmobile's 700 MHz band only works with newer phones. Apple started supporting it with the 6s. My coverage with Tmobile is much better with the 6s than it was with the 6. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It would be a DOD policy since flight pay is the same for all services. I don't see the services lobbying DOD to increase it because nowadays they would view it as giving something for nothing. USAF, for example, will always want an ADSC in exchange for more money. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Get on the afepubs website and look it up. The regs are located there. But in any case it doesn't matter that your recruiter doesn't know the process. That's the way it be. Sts Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You already hold a reserve commission, so no scroll required. It involves resigning from ANG and simultaneous request to transfer to IRR. Once that is done use form 1288 to get gained to whatever admin sq is in charge of you. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hmm not everyone catches yellow fever. That's true. For those that don't even allow it, I ask you: Why? I'll leave my suppositions unsaid, for now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Truth be told, they're so unorganized at ARPC, you could probably run the conditional release thru your local chain and as long as no one there raises any objections, you're probably good to go. If you start asking too many questions, you might not be allowed to leave. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Your basic calculation is correct but assuming you transfer to the grey area at 22 years of active service and having 3 active service years as an O5, your retirement pay will be based on the max O5 pay in effect on the day you reach age 60. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

All points are not equal. There are inactive duty points (drills) and active duty points (which come in their own varieties). For the purposes of retirement, only these two points-types matter. You need 7300 *active duty* points for an active duty retirement. So if someone has 17 years of active duty points and then starts picking up IDTs in the reserve, he will still get a reserve retirement, even if he somehow gets to a point total (IDTs and AD added together) of 7300. 　These are the maximum IDT points per year creditable towards retirement. before 23 Sep 1996: 60 on/after 23 Sep 1996: 75 on/after 30 Oct 2000: 90 on/after 30 Oct 2007: 130

Get into an academy, get to your fall senior year, then you may have options. Take it one step at a time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

otsap: I don't know which of us is right. I doubt the bureaucrats would know what to do either, because of the rarity of this. I personally wouldn't recommend pressing to test on this, unless you're sure that you're OK with whichever result shakes out. One thing is for sure though: whether a subsequent board has him down as IPZ or APZ, his PRF will not be good (presumably) and the end result of that board will either be a once FOS or twice FOS.

I'll have to disagree with you, otsap. Look at Title 10 §14312. It says that declining a promotion is the same as failed of selection. It makes no reference to the process for having your name removed from a promotion list ex post facto, but that it will be removed. To the poster who asked about promotion to O-3 Capt, then, yes, this would work for that too, however, the MSO of 8 years might present an issue. I don't know because I haven't researched the ins/outs of 2 FOS to O-3. The exact text of the statute: (c) Effect of Declining a Promotion.— An officers name shall be removed from the promotion list and, if the officer is serving in a grade below colonel or, in the case of the Navy, captain, the officer shall be considered to have failed of selection for promotion if any of the following applies: (1) The Secretary concerned has not authorized voluntary delays of promotion under subsection (a) to the grade concerned and the officer declines to accept an appointment to a higher grade. (2) The Secretary concerned has authorized voluntary delays of promotion under subsection (a), but has denied the request of the officer for a delay of promotion and the officer then declines to accept an appointment to a higher grade. (3) The Secretary concerned has approved the request of an officer for a delay of promotion and, upon the end of the period of delay authorized in accordance with regulations prescribed under subsection (a), the officer then declines to accept an appointment to a higher grade. I realize this is written for reserve officers, and I can't find an equivalent statute in the regular officer section, so you may be right. On the other hand, if an officer declines a promotion, he will meet the next board and his status will be APZ, so what other status would that imply other than he once FOS?

Here is what you can do to get out of the regular AF absent Palace Chase. Twice Failed of Selection (2x FOS) to the next higher rank requires, by law, that the officer be separated (unless continuation is offered and accepted). ADSC is a service-level regulation and the law trumps ADSC. 1. Write a Do Not Promote me letter to the promotion board. If you do this for your APZ board, this will get your separation pay revoked, but since it's an advance on retirement pay and you intend to get a Reserve Retirement, it doesn't much matter. The law also stipulates no separation pay for an eventual separation for writing a do not promote me letter to your IPZ board, but I don't know if the AF tracks this. 2. If you make the promotion list anyway, decline the promotion. 3. If you are offered continuation upon your 2nd FOS, decline it. You won't get separation pay in this event. Doing the above will get you once failed of selection, so you'll need to fail selection a second time to get your date of separation which is normally 6 months after the public release of the selection list. You can move this to sooner, but due to bureaucratic processes any sooner than 2 months after the public release is probably too soon. You'll need to get on the scroll to get a reserve commission and that won't happen until you get a waiver. Even after you get a waiver, the scroll process can take two months. Getting on the scroll before separation will enable you to Palace Front. Since 2x FOS disqualifies you for a reserve commission, you'll need a request for waiver signed by your losing wing commander and gaining wing commander to go to the ARC, so hopefully you can do the above without burning any bridges. Since the ARC needs people these days, it shouldn't be much of a problem as long as you have a good relationship with your command. As long as you don't have a break in service between the regular AF and the ARC (i.e. you Palace Fronted), you'll meet a promotion board in the CY after your separation and probably be promoted provided you have your PME done and don't have any adverse indicators. You can also avoid having a break in service by being placed in the IRR, but this rarely happens. Many involuntarily separated officers are not placed in the IRR due to bureaucratic ineptitude. Regardless, the scroll process is required to get your reserve commission and without doing that, AFPC *will* give you a break in service and then *may* place you in the IRR. The end result is that you will meet a promotion board in the 2nd CY after your separation instead of the 1st. It's much better to go to the SELRES or ANG via Palace Front than to try to get a scroll done for the IRR. I don't know if it can be done because the gaining wing commander equivalent in the IRR may not cooperate to sign the request for waiver. From everything I've seen, the Air Force has very little interest in properly managing IRR officers. I say all this because by virtue of receiving separation pay, the law requires an officer to serve in the IRR for 3 years, but many are not placed in the IRR or are not scrolled and therefore have a break in service. Any unearned portion of a bonus already paid will be recouped. It is within their right to recoup a portion of any tuition assistance paid, but not "earned" because you didn't fulfill the ADSC, but I haven't seen this happen except for voluntary separation programs. As far as transfer of education benefits with the GI Bill, it is within their rights to revoke the benefit, but if this happens you can reinstate it in the ARC. Contrary to popular belief, there is no continuation that is forced on an officer--it is offered and then the officer either accepts or declines regardless of ADSC. sources: AFI 36-2501, AFI 36-3207, 10 U.S. Code § 1174

Declining a promotion is considered to be failed of selection, same effect as not making the promotion list. There is no continuation after the fact. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

File a dts local voucher, routing list thru your med grp. There's a med grp dts guy that can help you get that routing list and fund cite loaded into your dts if you don't already have it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This line of thinking is one the effects of being in the regular AF too long. There is life after and apart from BIG BLUE! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Never heard of officers' days. Whoever used this terminology probably meant RPA/MPA that is set aside for officers. Administratively, they might have a certain amount of money that they can pay. An officer requires more pay; so to spread the wealth, they will say we have, for example $100,000 for this year to pay RPA/MPA (aka man days). We'll designate $40,000 for officers and $60,000 for enlisted. So once the $40,000 for officers is gone then they claim they have run out of "Officers' Days". I can't help you with the rest as I am only familiar with getting PCS orders as the prerequisite for doing actions associated with a PCS. Even if you were to get put "on orders" at your squadron via MPA/RPA, this wouldn't help you with that since they're not the orders you need (PCS/IADT). If it were me I'd be asking the Chief Pilot for help on getting your orders since you have a need to get them sooner than otherwise.

I signed a SOU in 1998 when I first got to USAFA that read "Should I graduate USAFA, get selected for UPT, and graduate UPT, I understand that I am committed to a 10-year post-UPT ADSC." That was, in effect, a 16 year contract that I signed when I was 18 years old. It was too much, but I signed it anyway because what else was I going to do? They had me over a barrel. 13 years?! That equates to a 19 year contract! That is outrageous especially since it doesn't fix any systemic problems. For the years 2010-2013, AF was peeing their pants about "record retention!" and in my opinion failed to notice that it was because (in large part) the 10-year ADSC was finally coming home to roost. Thus, AF was kicking people out with wild abandon. But that's what they want. They don't want people to have the freedom to leave. They want to pick and choose who they consider worthy to stay in. So the extended ADSC is not about manning, it's about power: Power to dismiss those they don't want (through RIF, 2x FOS, etc) and power to hold onto those they do want regardless of individuals' desires. This way AFPC doesn't have to plan ahead for anything (except the next RIF or promotion board).

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I found the answer, sort of. It's written in the Dental Management Guide, accessible via the AFMS Knowledge Exchange. For AFRC it says: military dental exam required every 3 years. For ANG it says: "Air National Guard operations will be addressed in the next revision of the Dental Management Guide."

I know we have to get a dental exam every year, and since I get my teeth cleaned twice a year with my civilian dentist, I have him fill out the exam form and I turn that in. When I first got into the ARC I thought I heard some doctor type tell us that we had to get examined by an *Air Force* dentist every 3 years. I might have heard wrong or he might have been wrong. Has anyone heard of or experienced this?