Yes it helps a lot, thank you!

So sortie is kind of like switches on to switches off at the home base?

The count of time and "all are sorties" makes sense.

I served in a foreign military and want to attempt to put my sorties in the military time section on the airlineapps site.
I wonder what the airlines would think about it i.e. would they only want to see the US Armed Forces time in that section?
Should I not put it in there?

Thanks again