640-642 Flashcards
What must you know to be a successful leave monitor?
Specific unit responsibilities, procedures concerning leave, administrative leave policies, and special conditions affecting leave.
In which instance can a military member carry leave in excess of 60 days into the next fiscal year?
If they are eligible for special leave accrual.
How many days does DFAS automatically carry over if a member serves at least 120 consecutive days in a hostile-fire or imminent-danger area and receives hostile-fire or imminent-danger area pay for at least four consecutive months?
30 days.
When referring to leave, what is defined as “local area”?
The place where members live and from which they commute to the duty station.
Whose responsibility is it to ensure that the dates listed on the leave form are correct?
Unit leave monitor.
How many days can a member sell back upon voluntary retirement, reenlistment, separation, or discharge?
Up to 60 days.
What is convalescent leave?
Period of authorized absence granted to members who are under medical or dental care as part of the treatment prescribed for recuperation and convalescence.
Under which circumstance may losing commanders grant maximum accrued leave as leave en route with any PCS move?
If the delay does not interfere with the reporting date to either a port or a new assignment.
To whom may approval for emergency leave be delegated?
First sergeants.
How many days of PTDY may a losing commander grant when members house-hunt prior to signing out of the unit?
10 days.
When can leave be disapproved?
Due to military necessity or in the best interest of the Air Force.
When does a special pass start and stop?
Special passes start after normal working hours on a given day. They stop at the beginning of normal working hours on either the 4th day for a 3-day special pass or the 5th day for a 4-day special pass.
What establishes the conditions for official travel and transportation at government expense and provides the basis for the traveler’s reimbursement?
Travel order.
What are the two documents you may have to review in DTS?
Authorization and voucher.
What are the benefits of DTS?
No fee for trip cancellation or changes, access to last minute seat availability, and quicker reimbursement times.
What are some DTS functions?
Travel reservation system; audits travel documents for compliance with regulations, interfaces with various DOD accounting systems, pays travel related expenses, and archives documents to comply with IRS requirements.
Who enters the authorization in DTS?
The individual going TDY
How much can the sponsoring agency authorize for lodging?
Up to 125% of the local lodging per diem rates for conferences.
Receipts in excess of what amount, must be uploaded to DTS?
$75.
What statement needs to be included on every authorization?
Alternate means such as, SVTC or other web-based communication, are not sufficiently able to accomplish travel objectives.
What are the three types of awards members can earn?
Service awards, unit awards, and achievement awards.
What are the three important purposes of service awards?
Participation in specific or significant military operations, honorable active military service during periods of war or national emergency, and specific types of service by personnel serving on active duty or as a member of Reserve forces.
What makes a person ineligible for a service award?
No service award will be presented or awarded to any person whose entire service for the period covered by the award was not honorable, or to a person whose service for the period covered by the award was terminated under other than honorable conditions.
What is the purpose of unit awards?
To recognize acts or services that place the unit’s performance significantly above that of other units of similar composition and mission responsibility.
