Originally Posted by
Armarsh24
I heard that the Guard and Reserve pay for your airline ticket to come to work to do our one weekend a month and two weeks a year. Is this true?
Fake Example: my Reserve unit is in FL and I live in CA where I work at my full time job. Does the Reserve unit pay for my ticket to fly back to FL and back to CA when I do my weekend a month, two weeks a year deal?
First of all - bad idea to commute to your Guard unit. Avoid this situation if you can. In general, QOL can take a drastic downturn in all but the most unique of situations.
No. For normal drill weekends, you're on your own for transpo. For drills, you're typically not on official orders. The orders control how you get paid and what you're authorized. My Guard unit provided hotels for those living outside 50 miles during drill weekend (I think that's typical but I'm not certain).
For the two weeks, standard answer - It depends. If you're doing those two weeks as a deployed TDY somewhere other than your base, it's likely that travel will be authorized from your home. If you're doing the two weeks at your home base (and you live out of town), it kind of depends on the state of the unit "wallet". If your units has boocoo bucks, they might put a travel authorization on your orders and let you claim mileage or an airline ticket. There are different types of orders depending on the situation and where the $$ is coming from to pay you on those particular duty days.
That's about all I know and it only took me 22.5 years to figure that much out.
