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Show MPC oxplolns RANDOLPHx AFB, - (AFNS) Who Tex. hasn't received PCS orders to a short tour (remote) oversea area and sighed, "Why me?" No hands? OK. Who hasn't had a coworker land a long, ac: companied by- dependents -- assignment and muttered, "Why him?" Misguided theories and rumors about computers notwithstanding, there is a professional personnel system guiding oversea assignments. And, according to the assignment specialists at the Military Personnel Center, the system is far more rational than it might sometimes appear. One in four More than 25 per cent of the Air enlisted Force's authorizations are at oversea locations. Those Air Force men and women in an oversea slot serve a fixed tour, whether 12 months, 48 months, or something in between. When their rotation dates roll someone has to replace them. around, Eleven months before a replacement is needed, manning technicians at the Air Force Military Personnel Center determine where requirements will occur. These statistics involve oversea authorizations, Air Force specialty codes (AF-SC, and grades of returnees from each area. Requirements are then matched against the available resources Air Force men and women. Basically, "who's selected for what" depends on s) I WS7MDEE FXVt HELP ME CLEAR UP SOME RUMORS ZVE BUM HEMJN- &- fjj fiillylE SEA and what's needed now." Three types There are three types of oversea tours: Southeast Asia (SEA); short (less than 18 months); and long (18 months and up). Airmen with the longest elapsed time since their last oversea tour and with fewer completed oversea tours than contemporaries are selected first. Volunteers go before nonvolunteers. Among the volunteers, consecutive oversea tour (COT) applicants - those overseas who want to stay overseas -are first in line. Airmen completing SEA and short previously served. CONUS-base- d volunteers are last in tour may assignments volunteer for any other type of oversea tour. Those serving long tours can apply only for COTs to SEA or normal short tour areas. COT applicants who are completing SEA tours get first priority on oversea assignments; short tour returnees, second. Priority among airmen in long tour areas is determined by the number of Recruiter named RANDOLPH AFB, Tex. (AFNS) - SSgt. William T. 11811 . Yankey of the 3505th U.S. Air Force Recruiting Group has been selected Air Force Recruiting Service Rookie Recruiter of the Year. Wwr COME FIND YOUR SIZE AT... Sergeant Yankey works out of the Lexington, Ky., recruiting office. KT T'1"""'" a0""" """"II """" v -- EMPLOYE SUPPORT Of THE GUARD & RESERVE. M7 MM o More Mileage 6 Easy Handling C4 and vp After all COTs and CONUS volunteers are considered, nonvolunteers are selected for unfilled the remaining requirements. 178-16.......C- er selection priority process, a little more complicated than the system for volunteers, varies for each type of tour. Who's going to SEA? Well, the most eligible area airmen with less than 90 previous days there. Those with no oversea tour credit at all are selected first, followed by personnel who have served a long but no short tours. Next to go are airmen with credit for one short tour, then those with two short tours, then three, etc. The next nonvolunteer to SEA fill group is made up of requirements those who previously served 9 days in SEA. Within the group, selection priority is based on the individual's other oversea tour history, the same as for airmen with less than 90 days of SEA service. Third Category The third category to fill SEA slots is those airmen who 9 have credit for days in SEA. Within this group, are the same as for ' priorities the two previous groups. If requirements still exist, then airmen with 270 days or more days in SEA would be selected in the same priority sequence as the other groups. After this, the number of earlier SEA tours become a factor. Because of the combat risk, Air Force established the policy in 1966 that no member would serve an involuntary second SEA tour until all those with similar qualifications had completed a tour. It was to support this policy that AFMPC established the SEA y Second SEA Tours (ISST) skills lists. Airmen whose skills appear on the SEA critical list are normally precluded from until other assignments SEA a they've completed those tour. Likewise, possessing an ISST skill, who haven't had two SEA tours, are also restricted to a SEA tour. Short tour For other tour short assignments, airmen with no previous oversea service are selected first, those with only long tour credit second, one short tour third, two short tours fourth, and so forth. Nonvolunteers with the greater number of short tours are selected last. No distinction is made between SEA and other short tours previously served in this short tour selection process as SEA tours are considered as short tours - when selection is for other than SEA. Nonvolunteer selections for long tour areas are based on the time since the last oversea tour SEA, short or long. Normally, oversea selections are made nine months prior to the airman's reporting date. SEA requirements are manned first, then other short tours and, finally, long tours. So, that's how it works! individual oversea History tour history, that is and oversea volunteer status rule the selection process. Where an airman has been before, and when, largely deter-- 90-17- - 180-26- - . - mines the timing and destination of his future oversea assignments. Ac- cording to officials at AFMPC, Air Force members enjoy the fairest and most professional assignment treatment in and it's because of history computer technology. With more than 570,000 enlisted members, Air Force resource managers would be unable to provide personal attention and management review if they also had to - complete all the routine ana now manual calculations-edit- s accomplished by the com- puter. Although they can override the computer's recommendations at any time to assure the most effective management, it saves them thousands of manhours and makes the latest information on each member instantly available. Conference held RANDOLPH AFB, Tex. ) - The 1973 World wide Personnel Conference was held here Sept. Lt. Gen. Robert J. Dixon, Air Force deputy chief of staff for personnel, hosted the three-da- y conference. More than 70 major com(AFNS 10-1- world's . directors and top mand Defense Department and Air Staff personnel managers were scheduled to attend the meeting. Secretary of the Air Force Dr. John L. McLucas, and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. George S. Brown, were keynote speakers. conference The overall objective is the promotion of a united personnel effort in bettering the lives and careers of Air Force people through the Air Force's people program management. sot -Reunion Calif. (AFNS) Hawthorne, and Military civil ElQCtrlc Chain Savi O- ..m02 Calif., who were responsible for developing the Atlas, Titan and Minuteman - f' , - W i l iii it, i-g- i .iJ& Jm.JLik w - flie WM. IK. lUIMMMIW II H in- tercontinental ballistic missile and the Thor intermediate range ballistic missile will hold a 20th anniversary reunion, Aug. 3, 1974, at the Space and Missile Systems Organization Officers Open Mess in Los Angeles. Information on the reunion may be obtained by writing USAF ICBM Pioneers, P.O. Box 1249, Hawthorne, Calif. 2M L service people stationed with Air Force elements at Inglewood, . S S (p) 9 5 newest-lighte- st ! r 2. 10" Electric Chain Saw H78-1- 5 H78.16 The non-volunte- here suo ,43 G78-1- 5 BALANCE line. 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