Support the Troops: Paying Our People in Hostile Forward Areas
Abstract
The Air Force Accounting and Finance Center (AFAFC) and 1,400 people in military pay sections in the field pay over 800,000 Air Force active, guard, and reserve military personnel. They do their job very well during peacetime; but peacetime efficiency does not always equate to wartime effectiveness. The object of this study is to define the wartime military pay function, and explain its evolution over time and through conflict, and propose effective, systematic means to meet the requirements for servicing troops in the future environment of conflict. Military pay personnel are normally not involved in hand-to-hand combat or dodging bullets at the front lines. Rather, they operate immediately behind the front lines in an area I call the hostile forward area. Depending on the nature of the conflict, a hostile forward area might be supported from a local air base that existed prior to the beginning of the conflict. This would occur during a conflict where the Air Force has established facilities. The hostile forward area might also be supported from a bare-base deployment site constructed to support wartime requirements after the conflict began. This would occur where the Air Force does not have established facilities. The future military pay function described in this study is designed to support the latter: a bare-base deployment site.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA206993
Entities
People
- Bill D. Brogdon
Organizations
- Air University