Volume 5 Flashcards
What is the Air Force’s primary human resource system?
Military Personnel Data System (MilPDS)
Why is it necessary to ensure all personnel are educated and able to use the virtual Military Personnel Flight tools?
Our force is decreasing
What system allows commanders and managers near real-time retrieval capability for alpha rosters and other routine reports?
Personnel concepts III (PCIII)
What was designed to make official travel management easy and efficient for Defense Department personnel and save taxpayers money?
DTS
Air Force members cannot carry leave in excess of how many days into the next fiscal year if they are not eligible for special leave accrual?
60 days
What is the maximum number of unused leave days the Air Force can pay members for?
60 days
What is emergency leave?
Chargeable leave that is granted within the limits of accrued, advance, or excess leave for a personal or family emergency that requires the member’s presence.
How many CONUS or OCONUS permissive TDY days may a losing commander approve for eligible members?
20 days CONUS / 30 days OCONUS
Which of the following factors is not considered when a commander decides if a member is entitled to BAS?
Time in grade
How often is a unit required to conduct reviews to verify members entitled to BAS are receiving it?
Annually
How many copies of the substance-in-kind (SIK) roster is provided monthly to each unit?
Two
Within how many days must a substance-in-kind (SIK) letter on a newly assigned personnel be prepared and submitted to food services?
Three
What is used by commanders to perform various quality force actions?
Unfavorable information file (UIF)
Who determines which optional documents are filed in a member’s unfavorable information file?
Commander
Today, the commander signed section V of an AF Form 1058, Unfavorable Information File Action, putting a staff sergeant on the control roster. What is the final disposition date?
Twelve months from today
Which document is an optional item that may be filed in an unfavorable information file?
a. Article 15 punishment
b. Control roster action
c. Record of failure in substance abuse
d. Record of conviction adjudged by court martial
Article 15 punishment
How many duty days does a member have to acknowledge notice of an intended action to establish an unfavorable information file?
3
What is marked on the front and back of an unfavorable information file folder?
The words “For Official Use Only”
Who should not be allowed to access an unfavorable information file
Members of enlisted promotion selection boards
Upon assumption of command, when must a commander review all unit favorable information files (UIF)?
Within 90 days
When does the unfavorable information file monitor remove documentation pertaining to Article 15 action?
Upon receipt of record of action from the staff judge advocate showing that punishment was set aside
What action is taken by the temporary duty (TDY) commander when an unfavorable information file is established on members who will return to their permanent duty station after completion of TDY?
Send the completed package to the member’s unit commander
Who can place a member on the control roster?
Unit commander
What is the maximum time an individual’s name can remain on the control roster?
6 months
How often is duty status reporting accomplished?
Whenever changes occur
Who is responsible for updating, maintaining, and correcting duty status conditions?
Member’s unit
You can change members’ duty status to “absent without leave - AWOL” when they have an unauthorized absence of more than
24 hours, but less than 30 days
What is one of the most important aspect of in-processing?
Creating a suspense file
What is the result if members do not out-process?
Individual base agencies will be unable to track member
What is not an action a personnel action changes (PAC) worksheet can communicate to the commander’s support staff (CSS)?
Promotion
What is a tool used for notifying units that they have inbound personnel?
Allocation notice
Through what system are allocation notices generated?
Personnel concepts III (PCIII)
Which of the following service characterizations is not authorized for administrative separation?
Dishonorable
Which of the following is not a reason members may be retained beyond their expiration time of separation (ETS)?
For completion of involuntary discharge processing
Which of the following is not a consideration for hardship voluntary separation?
The family is separated
When is involuntary discharge not mandatory?
Alcohol abuse
Within how many days should personnel be notified of reassignment?
7 calendar days
Who approves a member’s projected departure date on the assignment notification printout?
Commander
When considering an airman for reenlistment, commanders should consider all of the following except:
a. Airman’s career goals
b. enlisted performance report ratings
c. unfavorable information from any substantiated sources
d. Airman’s willingness to comply with Air Force standards
Airman’s career goals
MSgt Bryce has over 20 years active service. When will he be considered under the selective reenlistment program (SRP)?
When he is within 13 months of his expiration term of service (ETS)
The Selective Reenlistment Program (SRP) roster, part 1, identifies for the commander’s support staff airmen who
are due SRP consideration or reconsideration
To whom does a career airman with 14 years active serivce appeal when the unit commander does not select him or her for reenlistment?
Wing commander
What part of the Selective Reenlistment Program roster identifies airmen who have not applied for a career job reservation?
Part III, Career Job Reservation
First term airmen who enlisted for 6 years may apply for a career job reservation (CJR) as early as the first duty day after he or she completes how many months on his or her current enlistment?
59
Which of the following is not a rank order factor when personnel are given a waiting-list position number?
Last 5 enlisted performance reports
Who can not be a rater?
A Senior Airman who has not completed Airman Leadership School
When should the commander’s support staff send the rater a computer-generated performance feedback notice?
30 days after the supervision began
What form is used for an enlisted performance report on a SrA?
AF Form 910
Who is the evaluation forwarded to upon completion?
Air Force Personnel Center or Air Reserve Personnel Center
In which situation would an LOE not be mandatory?
A1C with 5 months total active military service
Which of the following is awarded only to an organization that performed meritorious service or outstanding achievements that clearly set the unit above and apart from similar units?
Air Force Outstanding Unit Award (AFOUA)
Who is responsible for monitoring all decoration program requirements?
Commander’s support staff
Who may initiate a recommendation for a decoration
Any other person having first hand knowledge of the achievement
When are individuals considered for below-the-zone (BTZ) promotions to Senior Airman?
The month prior to the quarter in which they will be eligible for BTZ promotion
What is the promotion eligibility status (PES) code for Airman with an Article 15 suspended reduction that prevents the airman from being promoted until the PES code is changed to a date on or after the PES date in the military personnel data system (MilPDS)?
A
In the weighted airman promotion system, what two weighted factors account for 44 percent of the total point value?
Specialty knowledge test and promotional fitness examination
In the weighted airman promotion system, time-in-grade is computed at the rate of
one-half point per month in grade up to 10 years
What is the enlisted performance report conversion factor?
27
How many months time-in-grade (TIG) and years total active federal military service (TAFMS) does a 7-level technical sergeant require to be promoted to master sergeant?
24 months TIG and 8 years TAFMS
Under the stripes for exceptional performers program, no airman may be promoted more than once during any 12-month period under any combination of promotion programs except
Senior Airmen
In which situation does a member remain eligible for promotion consideration and selection but, if selected, is prevented from assuming the higher grade?
Awaiting a decision on an application as a conscientious objector
When career enhancements or the commander’s support staff schedules personnel for weighted airmen promotion system (WAPS) testing, they do so by annotating the
unit eligible for promotion testing roster
Which phase of promotion process begins when promotion selections are actually made at Headquarters Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC)?
Initial
Which brief is a one-page, computer-generated extract of selected data from the Headquarters Air Force (HAF) military personnel flight (MPF) that is used by all officer selection boards?
Officer selection brief (OSB)
