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Operations
are what Air Force members train for, so it’s important
their reports include details of operational service. Here
Corporal Mick Cuerdin, an F/A-18 aircraft ground crew member,
works on the aircraft during the night shift on Operation
Falconer.
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Photo
by WO2 Al Green
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PERFORMANCE
Appraisal Reports for leading aircraftmen/women and corporals
were due at DPA on September 1 and those for sergeants and flight
sergeants are due no later than October 1.
Extensions to these submission dates should be requested through
the Airman Performance Appraisal Cell (APAC) staff, at DPA, via
email.
APAC staff have already identified a trend reflecting a high number
of technical errors associated with the 2003 PARs submitted to
date.
To assist in rectifying this situation, APAC is despatching a
PAR checklist to all orderly rooms, but assessors, senior assessors
and orderly room/administration staff should be particularly vigilant
in ensuring that all areas of a PAR are completed/signed before
they are sent to DPA.
All airmen/women are reminded that it is in their best interests
to ensure that a PAR is submitted on time, or to ensure that an
extension has been sought and approved.
Remember, PARs raised after December 31 will not be accepted for
consideration by a supplementary board unless there are exceptional
mitigating circumstances.
It is the individual’s responsibility to ensure that a PAR
is raised on them. Should a member be experiencing difficulties
getting a PAR raised, they should pursue the matter through their
chain of command as the lack of a PAR for any year has the potential
to adversely impact on a member’s chances of promotion.
Service history
WITH so many Air Force members working on operations, it is important
that their history includes adequate coverage of their operational
service.
It is, after all, what we train for and posting and promotion
decisions should consider performance on operational duties.
To provide career management agencies with better visibility of
the assessed performance of officers and airmen/women during periods
of short-term duty, ADF Performance Appraisal Supplementary Reports
(AC833-30s) should be completed and forwarded to the relevant
career management agency
(DPO-AF, DPA or DPR-AF).
DGPERS-AF recently implemented this change following a review
of procedures and issues arising from the 2004 Promotion Series
boards. This change will reduce the number of reporting history
gaps, particularly within operational environments, and remove
the requirement for assessors to summarise Supplementary Report
information in annual Performance Appraisal Reports.
Under the new arrangement, assessors and administrative staff
are to forward all Performance Appraisal Supplementary Reports
(operational and non-operational) to the respective career management
agency with the annual PAR.
DI(AF) PERS 4-21 and DI(AF) PERS 4-22 are being amended to reflect
this change.
Reserve Training Days
AIR Force relies on its Reserves to meet its capability requirements.
Available resources, in the form of funding for training days,
must be allocated carefully to ensure the best outcomes.
RAAF Active Reserve (RAAFAR) members must complete 32 days compulsory
service during a training year, while RAAF Specialist Reserve
(RAAFSR) personnel must serve for seven days.
RAAFAR members should include a continuous training block of two
weeks in their annual allocation.
The maximum number of service within a training year for RAAFAR
members is 200 days and RAAFSR members is 150 days.
However, owing to budgetary constraints, CAF has imposed a limit
of 130 days.
A maximum of 130 days should not be interpreted as implying a
right to an automatic allocation of Reserve training days.
Members may only be paid for those days that have been approved.
Approval from the Director of Personnel Reserves - Air Force,
through the appropriate command chain, must be obtained for any
Reserve member (including Reserve Staff Group members) to exceed
the 130-day limit.
Allocations above the limit will only be approved to meet exceptional
service requirements when there are no other suitably qualified
personnel to undertake the required task. Allocations above 130
days will not be considered before February 1 of any training
year.
How
to get a response
DO
you want to raise discussion across Air Force to generate feedback
and ideas? Perhaps you are conducting research or running a project
and seek a wide coverage of input.
The Air Force People Capability web site provides the opportunity
to do this. You can use it to host information and to provide
links to documents and other web sites.
Email afhq.afpc@defence.gov.au
or log on to the web site at http://intranet.defence.gov.au/raafweb/sites/AFPC/,
and click on any of the e-mail links throughout the site.
Ensure
PARs are
