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To piggy back on this question, what would his options be for a 365 or PCS given the same scenario?

Because you voluntold guys to do a FID mission when they have no business being there. They just don't "get it". When I was there, some of our leadership was more more concerned about minor crap like dress and appearance than actually advising the Afghan Air Force on how to be an effective military.

Sent you a PM.

You will pay taxes on the intersest in the year you withdraw. It may be benificial to pull it out in Dec if your going to have a lower tax bracket in 2012.

Damn! I thought I found a sweet deal. For some reason I thought the last time I took out an advance pay it reflected on my W2 that same year. Oh well.

This is probably a question for finance guy. When you elect to take a pay advance when you PCS, when would you be taxed on the income? I will be deployed all 12 months in 2012 so I have zero taxable income. I’m trying to figure out if I can take 3 months of advance pay in December while it’s tax free, then pay it back next year resulting in essentially 9 months of taxable income in 2013? Any help is appreciated.

One of the reasons the Army turned the job down was due to airworthiness issues with the Mi-17. While they may not be doing the training directly, they are pretty involved in some of the training we are doing.

I looked around and couldn't find an answer to my question. Before leaving home station for a 365 I had about 3.5 months of back-to-back TDY's. Because it was cost effective to the AF I used my POV. My last day of training was only a few days before I had to catch the rotator so I had to deploy from my last TDY location and leave my POV in storage. Now I'm being told that in order to pick up my POV, I have to either fly back direct to my last TDY location and use chargable leave and forgo my 14 days of downtime that you get when you return, or fly back to home station and find my own way to get to my last TDY location (on my owen dime), once again using chargeable leave. Any insights on where to turn to get a straight answer. Final question. If I do take chargeable leave to get my POV and return to home station, can I complete my travel voucher and claim the mileage? If so, are you allowed to claim milleage if you are traveling on leave? Thanks in advance for the help.

I think 1Lt's and Lt Col's will wear black to differentiate with 2Lt's and Major's. What about rank on the hat? I don’t think many clothing sales shops are selling multicam patterned rank to sew on.

I received my captain rank with my multicam uniform but the its brown, like you would expect for a 2Lt or Major. Does anyone know if this is correct or should it be black? I searched but could not find an AF uniform policy for multicams anywhere.

I've got a question about relocating dependents before a deployment. When I volunteered for a 365, the tasking letter stated "I understand that I have an entitlement to relocate my dependents and household goods (HHGs) at the government expense". My question is whether or not I will get travel days, mileage reimbursement, or DLA? Anyone have experience with this?

Mandatory evacuations orders for those in the flood zone were issued around noon today. The news isn't trying to sugarcoat the situation and already saying a lot of people will lose their homes. Also, the housing market up here has sucked for people inbound for the past few years. When I got here there was a 12-18 month waiting list for base housing and less than a 1 percent vacancy rate on apartments and houses so a lot of us ended up buying. Oh yeah, most people don't have flood insurance either.

"This year's ACP program is in effect until Sept. 30." When do you actually become eligible for the bonus? If you had a UPT graduation date of 25 Sep, would you only have 5 days to decide to take the bonus or are you eligible now and have to decide before 30 Sep?

From the Defense Travel Management Office: If I get promoted, do I get the "protected" BAH amount for my new pay grade? No. If you are promoted, your BAH rate is the then-current published BAH for your new (higher) grade, with the following exception. If you get promoted, and are in a location where the current published BAH for your new grade is lower than the BAH amount you were receiving before, you continue to receive the higher BAH amount. BAH for a Captain in Minot is actually going up by $174 and $114 for a Major, so we got that going for us.

I think what he's saying is his BAH at Clovis will be $300 less than his current BAH while a similar house in Clovis will run $500 more than what he's currently paying. So a net loss of $800? That sucks!

Does anyone know what if any are the limitations to converting part or all of my TSP into my Roth IRA? Basically in 2011 I want to max out my TSP while I'm in the 25% tax bracket. In 2012 I'll be deployed the entire year and will have little taxable income (assuming the Bush tax cuts are extended). So in theory I could transfer the $16,500 to my Roth IRA, pay $2,475 in taxes (would be $4,125 if I do nothing so a net gain of $1,650), and be able to contribute more than the current $5,000 limit. If I'm correct than I could also transfer whatever it takes to raise my taxable income to the top of the 15% tax bracket (2010 is $68,000 for married filing jointly) pay the taxes at 15% or $9,362.50 and let it grow. Any thoughts or inputs?

The UH-1N is non-deployable? I keep getting told everyday that we are "deployed in place". Oh yeah, I've been trying to pick up a 60 slot for over 2 years now and was told by one CC that the UH-1N is "A better mission than CSAR". Oh well, I'll just do a 365 and count down the days remaining on my ADSC (4 years 9 months and 24 days).

I'm halfway done. Standard discussion post rules apply. I did have one class where the final was a 10 slide powerpoint presentation. Thank you AF for preparing me for this!

AMU has a pretty low threat degree in Sports Management. No thesis at the end and all the classes are sports related.

I'm pretty sure if you get passed over for Major twice, you have to be offered selective continuation to stay in. The ADSC you incur for UPT comes secondary to whatever law dictates we have so many officers in each grade. So does that mean passed over Captains will be able to punch with 7 years left on their UPT commitment?