You will get travel for annual tour and active duty man-days, but not for inactive duty. Most nits will provide housing of some kind for IDT.

GF

 

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.

 

A more thorough answer from Adlerdriver.. That said, when I moved from the ANG to AFRes, I was a bit stunned at the money the Reserves had, much more liberal at spending and having man-days than the ANG. My ANG almost never paid for travel to/from the unit for any type of duty; my last Reseve unit paid frequently for any man-day period exceeding one day and would pay for travel to do man-days before a drill. It does depend on the overall budget, the unit and mission. The last decade has been, shall we say, more generous than the one before it.

It depends is the best answer

GF

 

I'm Active duty currently, so not totally fluent in the language yet....when you say 'man-days' you're referring to the 2 man days that yu do a month and the 14 man days sometime during the year?

Overall, sounds like ANG wouldn't pay, and AFRes 'probably' (depending on budget). Did I get that right? Thank ou sirs, I appreciate the response, very helpful.

 

Two categories of paid duty--inactive (IDT inactive duty training) and active. Inactive is "pay" only, not allowances; you can get two periods per day. So, on a drill weekend you get four IDT periods for pay, each one of four hours. Divide your monthly pay (base plus flight pay by 30 equals one IDT. Flight crew get Additional Flight Training Periods, they work the same as drill periods; it just pays for your flying continuation training. IDT must be done in the US, but there are exceptions.

Active Duty is just like AD, you get pay, allowances, susistence, the lot BY THE DAY. Say, the unit flies a three-day trip and you sign up for it. You could be called to three man-days for the training missions. Complete the mission, submit pay paperwork, KA-ching, three days pay. Annual tour is AD, but is the minimum AD you must do each year, pay is the same as AD.

The rules are the same throughout the ARC, but it does depend on the budget, unit mission. For example, air lifters have been in constant demand--lots of AD. Other missions might not be in demand--less money, less pay. I had guys that have had nearly 10 years of AD in the C-5. Not many units, lots of demand. The fighter OPSTEMPO, I'm guessng here, many units, less demand, less money.

Questions?

GF

 

I guess I should've specified I'm in a non-flying AFSC on Active duty, so how much of what you said above applies?

 

All of it except the Addl Flight training periods. A reserve member is minimum pay is 48 IDT periods per year and 15 days Annual Tour (AD)

GF