AFRC Budget hole
08-16-2019, 01:20 PM
#1
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AFRC Budget hole
Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Not a complaint, but just an observation. AFRC budget raided to pay for damage at Tyndall and Offutt. I get it...the money has to come from somewhere. I’m grateful there are LTMPA orders for the bums in the squadron.
First time in my 13 years as a reservist that I haven’t burned through all my TPs. This is the worst I’ve seen it in my career.
Our squadron’s stance is that we won’t bend over backwards to get creative to mintain currency. Let it fail... we will get recurrent eventually.
How bad is it for the rest of y’all?
C17D
First time in my 13 years as a reservist that I haven’t burned through all my TPs. This is the worst I’ve seen it in my career.
Our squadron’s stance is that we won’t bend over backwards to get creative to mintain currency. Let it fail... we will get recurrent eventually.
How bad is it for the rest of y’all?
C17D
08-16-2019, 02:49 PM
#3
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Originally Posted by C-17 Driver
Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Not a complaint, but just an observation. AFRC budget raided to pay for damage at Tyndall and Offutt. I get it...the money has to come from somewhere. I’m grateful there are LTMPA orders for the bums in the squadron.
First time in my 13 years as a reservist that I haven’t burned through all my TPs. This is the worst I’ve seen it in my career.
Our squadron’s stance is that we won’t bend over backwards to get creative to mintain currency. Let it fail... we will get recurrent eventually.
How bad is it for the rest of y’all?
C17D
First time in my 13 years as a reservist that I haven’t burned through all my TPs. This is the worst I’ve seen it in my career.
Our squadron’s stance is that we won’t bend over backwards to get creative to mintain currency. Let it fail... we will get recurrent eventually.
How bad is it for the rest of y’all?
C17D
08-16-2019, 03:39 PM
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It’s AFRC-wide my friend. All USAFR heavy airframes that I’m aware of are in the same situation. In addition, some locations are allowing the TRs to burn some (not all) TPs for Sep, but instructing the ARTs not not burn any TPs...because they already have a Civ paycheck.
Airline apps are being drafted as we speak as a result.
Airline apps are being drafted as we speak as a result.
08-16-2019, 03:56 PM
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Gaming the Budget
Don’t know if it’s still true, but there used to be a perverse incentive to waste money and fuel as the end of a fiscal year approached. Failure to expend every resource would mean that you could afford a cut in your future allocation, and nobody wanted that. 
08-16-2019, 04:26 PM
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Originally Posted by tomgoodman
Don’t know if it’s still true, but there used to be a perverse incentive to waste money and fuel as the end of a fiscal year approached. Failure to expend every resource would mean that you could afford a cut in your future allocation, and nobody wanted that.
08-16-2019, 05:45 PM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Yeah that's still a thing. I routinely plan to run out of money by mid-July. Then they take money from those who are behind the curve and give it those of us who are better spenders to cover our Q4. Only in the government...
If you had contracts lined up, you could get funds to buy damn near anything at 23:55 on the last day of the FY.
08-16-2019, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
The neat thing is being assigned to Hickam. Any remaining unobligated funds (usually contracts that couldn’t be finalized) is rolled to bases in the next time zone to the west as the clock approaches midnight. Any they can’t spend (either their own or fallout money from bases to the west of them) is rippled to the next time zone. And so forth. In the USAF, it all ended up at Hickam.
If you had contracts lined up, you could get funds to buy damn near anything at 23:55 on the last day of the FY.
If you had contracts lined up, you could get funds to buy damn near anything at 23:55 on the last day of the FY.
08-18-2019, 04:21 AM
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Originally Posted by C-17 Driver
How bad is it for the rest of y’all?
Originally Posted by DirtyPurple
In addition, some locations are allowing the TRs to burn some (not all) TPs for Sep, but instructing the ARTs not not burn any TPs...because they already have a Civ paycheck.
Airline apps are being drafted as we speak as a result.
Airline apps are being drafted as we speak as a result.
ART: (Applies and gets hired at DAL/FDX/UAL) No, NOW I have a CIV paycheck.
Originally Posted by tomgoodman
Don’t know if it’s still true, but there used to be a perverse incentive to waste money and fuel as the end of a fiscal year approached. Failure to expend every resource would mean that you could afford a cut in your future allocation, and nobody wanted that.
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