Originally Posted by
ronnie75
I'm trying to separate from the Air Force at the end of my ADSC (sort of, I requested a few weeks off), and currently my paperwork is in limbo. I'm on a tight timeline with civillian employment, and I have a part time reserve job lined up. Anyone here ever Palace Front-ed (not Chase), and if so, was it painless? ie do they still want 6 months notice? I'm reading up on it, wondering if I should go that route as I wait for an answer on "normal" separation paperwork. Thanks
I'm doing the palace front right now. I turned in my papers in November 07, my DOS is 10 May 08, and I start terminal leave on 22 Feb.
Talk to your reserve recruiter ASAP - they'll take care of most of the footwork. Things they'll need from you:
- The completed 780
- Copy of your last 1042 and flight physical that shows worldwide deployability
- last PT results
They'll do the paperwork and take care of the 1288. The biggest problem is waiting for your name to show up on the "scroll list." I don't even know what it is, but essentially, it's a SecAF approved listing that you need to get on prior to inprocessing into your reserve unit and getting your orders. Apparently, that process can take several months. The good news is that your reserve recruiter does all the work.
For me, leaving the active duty side is the hard part. Dealing with the standard "that's not my job" attitude in finance and MPF has been extremely painful. I'll go on record and say that the 2 dumbest people on this planet happen to work in Dover's MPF and finance offices. There's a lot of stupid things - shread your passports so you can outprocess active duty, then show up in the reserves and wait 4 months so you can get new passports. Ditto for government travel cards, security clearance paperwork, line badges, etc. Get the commissary & BX to sign off your MPF checklist so that you can pick up your finance checklist that has you go back to the BX & commissary for them to sign your finance checklist. Gotta love today's awesome support agencies
