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Contingency Pay Guidance

In order to receive entitlements authorized for a contingency area, please complete a DD 1351-2 listing your itinerary from the date you departed the states to present day. Please ensure yourself and your supervisor sign the DD 1351-2. Also submit a copy of your certified 938 and 1610 or CED order that shows which contingency area you are located.
– DD 1351-2

Defense Finance and Accounting Service Special and Incentive Pays
– Basic Allowance for Housing
– Overseas Housing Allowance
– Family Separation Allowance
– Bonuses
– Cost of Living Adjustment
– Hostile Fire/Imminent Danger Pay
– Incentive Pay

IDT Pay
– IDT Basic Pay
– IDT Travel Pay
– UTAPS

AROWS TODC Quick Guide

AFRC Funding for Deployment Gear

This AFRC Policy Memorandum defines the issue and provides a mobility deployment procurement process for acquiring gear for deployers.

Attached you will find the Air Force Policy Memorandum 23-003, Air Force Reserve Funding Procedures for Mobilization Deployment Gear Procurement The AFRC points of contact for this matter are HQ AFRC/FMAI and HQ AFRC/A4RX.  The A4 Community has also been provided this memorandum.  Please make sure this information is communicated with your RAs and AOs as you all work together to mitigate the amount of rejected funding requests from tasking AD MAJCOMs.

References

  • AFI 10-402, Mobilization Planning
  • DAFMAN 65-605 V1, Para. 11.14
    • 11.14. Funding Distinctive Uniforms and Functional Clothing. Commanders may approve these items for issue as organizational clothing if the functions of an organization or group require the wear of these items (as authorized in AFI 36-2903). The commander puts in writing the justification for the uniform or clothing necessitating the expenditure of the APF. (T-2). Charge the cost of the distinctive uniforms, functional clothing and authorized alterations to the unit of assignment’s O&M funds. For the DAF Reserve, pay the expense from the Reserve Personnel, DAF appropriation.
    • DAFI 36-3012, Military Entitlements, 6.3.10

AFRC RPA Obligation Uniform and Organizational Clothing Purchase Initiative

The staff has provided two options below for consideration as you begin assessing shortfalls that can

be addressed. 

(1)   Uniforms for prior-service members. The staff continues to hear concerns from the field that many units have prior-service Airmen that do not have the basic issue of 4 sets of OCP and/or a complete set of Blues. These instances have led directly to ARC deployment discrepancies, personnel arriving in the AOR without required uniforms/cold weather gear, and Airmen arriving to Tech School without the mandatory uniform compliment.  Follow guidance in attached PIM 20-006 for funding allowance information.

(2)   AF Maintenance Duty Uniform (MDU). The Air Force authorized the purchase and wear of the AF MDU/Coveralls on 7 February 2020 (DAFI36-2903). The MDU is classified as Organizational clothing and, IAW AFRC PIM 20-006,Commanders are authorized use of Reserve Personnel Appropriation (RPA) Funds for MDU/Coverall purchase. Airmen in AFSC’s: 2A, 2F, 2G, 2M, 2P, 2S, 2T, 2W, 3E, 3D and 1P are authorized to wear the MDU. HQ AFRC has confirmed that PIM 20-006 is still valid and applicable.

NOTE: Any RPA funds utilized to order standard uniform items IAW AFI 36-3012, Attachment 3 will need to be obtained using KYLOC IAW 23-101_AFRCSUP, Chp 11.3 BL: Please be on the lookout for the funding distribution to your 721 accounts and be prepared to execute immediately upon receipt of funds.  

Please coordinate and work with your local FM and Supply teams for any specific 721, GPC or KYLOC procurement questions.  My A4RM Material Readiness Branch is standing by to provide any KYLOC related sourcing inquires or concerns.  They can be reached at the following workflow email address:  HQ AFRC/A4RM Command IPE AFRCA4RMMOBILITY@US.AF.MIL

Appoved AF Coverall Uniform (MDU)Download
PIM-20-006-Guidance-Related-to-Uniform-and-Clothing-Issues

PBASweb Information

PBASweb manages the Reserve Personnel Appropriation (RPA) by offering automated allocation of funding authority and funds management control for HQ AFRC/FM and providing a real-time status of funds, as well as the mileage obligations and expenditures for Military Personnel Appropriations (MPA). Its customer base is HQ AFRC, NAFs, Wings, Commanders, Base Level FM Personnel

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Guidance Repository

There is more guidance being published than anyone can keep up with. I’ll continue to update this post and ask others to share updates in the comments.

Updated 25 March 2021

I found a good repository of COVID guidance on AFSOC/FM’s SharePoint site (link).

Note from SAF/FMB (26 March 2020):

In light of the current COVID-19 (coronavirus) environment, please be reminded that the use of Emergency and Special Program (ESP) Code C1 (Charlie One) is crucial in:

a) accurately tracking cost data in order to meet reporting requirements

b) obtaining potential additional funding (or reimbursement) as appropriate [Note, reimbursement not guaranteed]

Please use ESP Code C1 on all applicable commitment, obligation, and expenditure documents to capture total costs, both direct and reimbursable.  Using ESP Code C1, in conjunction with properly recorded accounting elements (e.g., element of expense, sales code, buyer sales code, etc.) will allow AF to adequately identify who is being supported, and what goods and services are being provided.

Source
Laura S. Payne
SAF/FMB, Policy & Fiscal Control

Guidance:

AFRC/A1 Using Power BI for CUBE Data

I’m trying to highlight folks around the Air Force that are using Power BI. It’s gaining traction and it helps to see how other careerfields are displaying their data.

Here are a few of the data points they’re capturing:

  • Authorized vs Assigned Skill Level
  • Bonus Trends Reenlistment-Retrain
  • Career Field Health Slides
  • Commander Update Brief
  • CUBE Data Slicer Table
  • Fuse BI
  • Hist Retention
  • Retention Deep Dive

You can access the Power BI data set at https://bi.afrc.af.mil/reports/browse/A1Folder. Send questions or request access from AFRC/A1RI, Issues & Analysis Branch.