Posted on Oct 5, 2023
How does AMC define "deployed" for dependent travel?
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Just picking up and going to on a mission? Perhaps a PCS or TCS to a combat zone. AMC allows dependents of deployed personnel to travel Space A without sponsor.
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MAJ Ronnie Reams, since you're asking how does AMC define "deployed" in regards to dependant travel (I adjusted your question to better reflect what you're asking), the FAQ on their site* states:
Unaccompanied dependents of deployed uniformed service members, when the deployment orders indicate the deployment is between 30 and 365 consecutive days, are authorized to travel Space-A unaccompanied in Category IV. If the deployment period exceeds 365 consecutive days, the unaccompanied dependents are authorized Category III travel. However, you will only be eligible to move in this category after every other Category III member has been selected.
Specific to "prove my sponsor is deployed", AMC requires a deployment verification letter signed by the member's commander verifying the member's deployment. The documentation must be in the dependents' possession during travel.*
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* https://www.amc.af.mil/AMC-Travel-Site/Frequently-Asked-Questions
* deployment verification - https://www.spacea.net/images/deployed_30_memo.pdf
MAJ Ronnie Reams, since you're asking how does AMC define "deployed" in regards to dependant travel (I adjusted your question to better reflect what you're asking), the FAQ on their site* states:
Unaccompanied dependents of deployed uniformed service members, when the deployment orders indicate the deployment is between 30 and 365 consecutive days, are authorized to travel Space-A unaccompanied in Category IV. If the deployment period exceeds 365 consecutive days, the unaccompanied dependents are authorized Category III travel. However, you will only be eligible to move in this category after every other Category III member has been selected.
Specific to "prove my sponsor is deployed", AMC requires a deployment verification letter signed by the member's commander verifying the member's deployment. The documentation must be in the dependents' possession during travel.*
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* https://www.amc.af.mil/AMC-Travel-Site/Frequently-Asked-Questions
* deployment verification - https://www.spacea.net/images/deployed_30_memo.pdf
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MAJ Ronnie Reams
CSM William Everroad - Never knew they had written orders that fast. I kinda thought it was VOPOTUS or at least VOCO. One of the sayings at Liberty is when POTUS calls 911, 82d answers the phone.
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COL Randall C.
MAJ Ronnie Reams - All operational deployments require JCS authorization. Many are "pre-authorized", such as standing contingency deployments, and even more are "sub-operations" to approved operations, but all need to be approved at that level.
Exception is if there is a EO deploying them, then they go and the Chairman's read book dots the Is and crosses the Ts after the fact.
Exception is if there is a EO deploying them, then they go and the Chairman's read book dots the Is and crosses the Ts after the fact.
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CSM William Everroad
MAJ Ronnie Reams - I know a few of them had the service appropriately recorded, it would be interesting to find out the timeline for orders production on that one, might have been contingency OPLAN templates.
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On VA. gov says: "Military deployment is the movement of armed forces. Deployment includes any movement from a military Service Member's home station to somewhere outside the continental U.S. and its territories. One example would be when a unit based in the U.S. is deployed to another country to enter into a combat zone."
Military One Source: "Generally, deployment means a scheduled time away from the normal duty station, usually outside of the United States. It may mean seven months on a Navy ship, 12 months at a forward operating base or three months in a town with restaurants and shops you'd recognize back home."
Military One Source: "Generally, deployment means a scheduled time away from the normal duty station, usually outside of the United States. It may mean seven months on a Navy ship, 12 months at a forward operating base or three months in a town with restaurants and shops you'd recognize back home."
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