Our unit is supposedly forming a plan next week.

Also of note, we got the number of sim periods offered by our "new" sim contractor, CAE, cut back so much that it is mathematically impossible for us to get all of our required sim events done.

We could probably fund a small air force by cutting out most of the dozens of stupid compliance inspections/exercises required by our love of constantly changing and conflicting OIs. Also, do we really need HARM/SARM or baseops/weather at most domestic locations? I know I know, sacrilegious, but I know for a fact that many bases pay civilian weather contractors $50-$80K just to forecast (ie read off ADDS) weather we can all get by going online.

KC

 

Amen brother. At Quagmire, they were planting fresh flowers in the gardens around the buildings ... wait for it ... IN NOVEMBER!!! The year prior, a Wing building that will go unnamed, spent over $30,000 to replace the mulch around the building because it was deemed a fire hazard. During our last UTA, our unit was given new widescreen monitors to replace the new monitors given to us last fall.

I know we all have stories like this, but you said it best. It will be the unit members and mission that suffer and all the extra crap we don't need will continue to still be there.

We have an ASEV and UCI coming soon. The best part is, in one of our reserve units, the training and stan/eval folks will not even be on orders and will not be present when the inspectors come to visit. Good times.

 

Below is the latest official news I have received...

ALCON,

The ARC continues to operate under a Continuing Resolution Authority (CRA) that is scheduled to expire on March 4, 2011. At this time there is not an approved budget. Without an approved budget or an extension to the current CRA, we have no authority to spend money beyond March 4, 2011. At this time, funding authority for the Reserve Personnel Appropriation (RPA) is near exhaustion at the Command level. Therefore, all IDTs (not approved in UTAPSweb) & RPA orders: Annual Tour (AT), Active Duty For Training (ADT), Active Duty for Special Works (ADSW) and unit funded School tours that start after March 4, 2011 are being disapproved and sent back to the member's Detachment. We will inform you as soon as an update to the budget is received, as well as provide procedures for processing disapproved orders/tour requests.

IMAs may perform their schedule Inactive Duty Training (IDTs) approved in UTAPSweb through March 31, 2011. All Centrally Managed School tours with a March start date have priority and will be approved during this period. "DO NOT CANCEL ANY CENTRALLY MANAGED SCHOOL TOURS". Cancellations must be coordinated through RMG/DPT, DSN 497-0608. Some members have encountered issues trying to obtain airline tickets for centrally managed school tours without a published order, due to our current funding status. Contact your Detachment Program Manager for a VOCO authorization letter.

It is possible that current RPA orders might require curtailment; however, please hold off cancelling or inputting additional RPA orders/tour requests to AROWS-R at this time, pending additional guidance.

Bottom-line: This message is simply a heads up that there is a delay on approval of orders/IDTs after March 4, 2011. Please be patient with us as soon as we receive budget information we will get it out to you.

MSgt Ralph Bitter
RMG/PA
Comm. 478-327-0852 DSN 497-0852

 

...really bad. I'm down to 2 days a month, my UTAs, which can't currently be rescheduled now. AT finished, and I was hoping to say them for a TDY. I feel like I can't contribute. Its time to start job hunting and look for a better Reserve job. If you're in ACC, forget about extra money. They've been out of money for a long time. Forget about it...until September that is.

 

It's not only ACC, it's everywhere my friend. I feel bad for my colleague who still can't figure out this UTAPS thing (we are IMAs). She's doing duty now in Korea without her IDT schedule approved. I spoke with the UTAPS help desk and they said to have her reschedule with me as her supervisor. Great except AROWS-R was down for maintenance. Now that nothing as been rescheduled/approved and the above letter came out--she may be SOL! I don't know how this CR issue was handled in 95/96. Does anyone know/remember how the reserves handled it? Perhaps operations just slowed to a crawl--However, we were not in a full-scale war in 95/96!

for those who speak Czech/Slovak---Do Pici!!

Lifter