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In This Issue
► Leave Program Highlights
► Personnel Records and Your Career
► DEROS Options and Your Career
In Every Issue
► Where to Get Assistance in the
MPS
► Getting Assistance at the vMPF
► Getting Assistance at the AF Portal
► MPS Hours of Operation
► MPS Telephone Numbers
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Leave Program Highlights
Accrual
Leave accrues at the rate of 2 1/2 calendar days per month. Members do not
earn leave when they are absent without leave (AWOL), in an unauthorized
absence status, serving a court-martial sentence, or in an excess leave status.
General Leave Rules
Leave must begin and end in the local area. The term local area means the
place of residence from which the member commutes to the duty station on a
daily basis. All leaves need to be submitted and approved by the supervisor
NLT 3 duty days prior to the first day of leave for MPS assignment of the
leave authorization number. Members are not on leave until a leave
authorization number has been issued. To prevent delays, it’s recommended
that leave request be processed 14 days prior to departure.
“Use or Lose” Leave
Congress recognizes that military requirements may prevent members from
using their planned leave. The National Defence Authorization Act of 2010
extended the temporary increase in maximum number of leave days
members accumulate and carryover until Sept. 30, 2013. The temporary
provision allows service members to carry over 75 days of leave from fiscal
year to fiscal year. Leave in excess of 75 days at fiscal year-end balancing is
lost unless the member is eligible for up to 45 days of Special Leave Accrual
(SLA), not to exceed 120 days total. The purpose of SLA is to prevent
members from losing accrued leave if they are unable to take normal leave
due to significant and unforeseen specific operational mission or contingency
operation requirements in support of the operations defined by HQ USAF.
Selling Back Leave
Members can be paid for unused leave at certain points in their career, such
as reenlistment, voluntary retirements, separation, or discharge. By law,
members may receive accrued leave payment up to a maximum of 60 days
during their military career. When a member "sells" leave, he/she receives
one day of base pay for each day of leave "sold." However, the legislative
history of the law clearly expresses congressional concern that members use
leave to relax from the pressures of duties and not as a method of
compensation.
Contact the Customer Support Section at 238-3490 for more information.
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Personnel Records and Your Career
Ca r eer Dev elopment
S ect ion P hone: 2 3 8 -5 5 4 3
Are you eligible to test for promotion, or getting ready to meet a
promotion board? Verify your personnel records are accurate!
Selective Reenlistment Program (SRP)
Enlisted Extensions
Officer & Enlisted Promotions
Assignments Notifications
Permanent Change of Station (PCS)
Personnel Reliability Program (PRP)
Retirements / Separations
Formal Training Orders
Career Status Bonus (CSB)
Command Sponsorship
DEROS Options / Information
vMPF Assistance
It is extremely important that you take the time to verify that your Personnel
Record is accurate throughout the year. This is done by ensuring that all of
your EPR/OPRs and decorations are updated in MILPDS by checking
vMPF. You must also verify that each document has been filed in your
electronic record in PRDA/ARMS. Although an EPR/OPR or decoration is
updated in MILPDS, if it is not in PRDA it may not be counted towards
promotion. The board must be able to see an actual copy of the report or
decoration. During the recent MSgt/TSgt promotion releases several enlisted
members have had their line number put on hold because they were missing
an EPR or decoration from their record. It can sometimes be very difficult
and time consuming to track down a report/decoration that was done years
ago.
Cus t omer S uppor t
S ect ion P hone: 2 3 8 -2 8 5 8
To locate PRDA, you can log in to the AF Portal, and you will see Personnel
Record Display under Top Links. vMPF is also accessible here.
Military Personnel In-processing
CAC Issue
ID Card Issue
DEERS Updates
Citizenship Information
Ration Cards
Leave Web Program
Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS)
Essential Station Messing (ESM)
Serviceman’s Group Life Insurance (SGLI)
Family Serviceman’s Group Life Ins (FSGLI)
Passports
VISAs
Force Ma na gement
S ect ion P hone: 2 3 8 -5 2 9 5
Officer / Enlisted Classification Actions
AFSC & Duty Title Updates
Base EPR & OPR monitor
Duty Status Information
Permanent Change of Assignment (PCA)
Unfavorable Information File (UIF) Mgt
Control Rosters
AMJAM Requests
Base UPMR Monitor
Awards and Decorations Updates
Special Duty Application Pay (SDAP)
In addition to verifying that your EPR/OPRs are updated correctly, you must
also ensure that your duty history is correct. The duty history shows all the
duty titles that you have held as well as the base where you were assigned.
In order for a duty title to be added to your history, officers must have
performed in the duty for at least 60 or more calendar days, and enlisted must
have performed in the duty for at least 120 or more calendar days. The
following are some of the source documents that can be used for duty history
entries:
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AF Form 910, Enlisted Performance Report (AB-TSgt)
AF Form 911, Senior Enlisted Performance Report (MSgt-CMSgt)
AF Form 707, Officer Performance Report (Lt-Col)
AF Form 707A, Field Grade Officer Performance Report (Maj-Col)
AF Form 707B, Company Grade Officer Performance Report (2Lt-Capt)
AF Form 475, Education/Training Report
If you require an update to your duty history, you can log on to the AF
portal, and under Top Links you will see MyPers. Once you log in to
MyPers, under “I would like to” you will see Update Duty History. After
you click on that, you will then click on Request Changes in Duty History.
On that screen you will be able to add, change or delete a duty title. You will
also be required to upload any supporting documentation. No changes can
be made without supporting documents. Once you have uploaded your
documents you can submit the request to AFPC. Current duty information
must be updated at the MPS Force Management office and will require
source documents as well.
Contact the Force Management Section at 238-5295 for more information.
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Hardship/Humanitarian/Separation
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Update Assignment Preference (Dream
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Correction of Military Records (BCMR)
Update/Correction of Personnel Data
Record of Emergency Data (vRED)
Various Assignment Applications
Enlisted Promotion Information
Accrual Travel Voucher Online
PCS Out-processing Checklist
Various Extension Requests
Correction of Decoration
Retirement Application
Citizen Application
Retraining
CJR status
AF Port a l:
Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC) Website
Air Force Fitness Management System
AFPC Secure Application
New OPR/EPR forms
E-Pubs and Forms
IT E-learning
Leave Web
My Pay
vMPF
Personnel Records Display Application
(PRDA)
Automated Records Mgt System (ARMS)
Assignment Management System (AMS)
Base Level Service Delivery Model
(BLSDM)
DEROS Options and Your Career
The DEROS program is an important part of your overseas military career,
and it is important to understand how your DEROS option decisions can
affect your reenlistment and assignment opportunities.
1. Airman must depart RAF Mildenhall by the last day of their DEROS
month.
2. In order to be considered for an assignment cycle, Airmen must have or
obtain 1 year retainability from their DEROS. If Airmen are eligible to
obtain the required retainability they must report to the MPS Reenlistment
office and obtain full required retainability.
3. If Airmen are eligible and they choose to decline to obtain the full
required retainability, they must officially decline in writing by
completing the AF Form 964. The MPS will accomplish an AF Form 964
on the Airman’s behalf for those Airmen who are eligible to obtain
retainability, but have not done so by the 25th day of the 8th month prior
to their DEROS. An Airman’s DEROS will be involuntarily extended to
match the DOS if they fail to obtain the required retainability in the
established timeframe. If the DEROS is involuntarily extended to match
the DOS because of insufficient retainability, the original DEROS will not
be reinstated based solely on the fact that they acquired retainability after
the established suspense dates. If he/she is a first term Airman and his/her
DEROS flips to match his/her DOS, he or she will only be allowed to
reenlist, not extend.
4. If further clarification is required, consult the PSD Guide Overseas
Returnee Counseling Handout and attachment 1 or contact the
Reenlistment office in the MPS.
Contact the Career Development Section at 238-5543 for more information.
Upcoming AFPC Webinars
27 Jul 12 - FY13 NCO Retraining Program Webinar, 1000 & 1700 CST
• https://connect.dco.dod.mil/fy13ncorp
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Superintendent:
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Customer Support:
238-2858 or 238-5289
Career Development:
238-5543 or 238-5314
Force Management:
238-5295 or 238-7227
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The AFPC "Retirements - 101 for Enlisted" Brief has been pre-recorded and
is available for viewing at your leisure. Contact AFPC at
afpc.dpsor.retirements@us.af.mil for a copy of this briefing.
The AFPC "Retirements - 101 for Officers" Brief has been pre-recorded and
is available for viewing at your leisure. Contact AFPC at
afpc.dpsor.retirements@us.af.mil for a copy of this briefing.