Topic: Operational Service Medals?

[CDN Aviator]

Did we really conduct operations against a defined enemy?

OP MOBILE was essentially no different that OP ECHO. That operation warranted the GCS (eventually).

[NavyShooter]

SUBJ:  POST COMBAT REINTEGRATION ALLOWANCE (PCRA) FOR OP MOBILE
REFS:  A.  CDS LETTER 5 OCTOBER 2011
B.  CBI 10.3.09 (MFSI)
C.  COS J3 022 302140Z JAN 06
1.  REF A ANNOUNCED THE CDS DESIGNATED OP MOBILE AOR AS A COMBAT
OPERATION FOR THE PURPOSES OF REF B EFFECTIVE 18 MAR 11 - 31 DEC 11

Not sure if this makes a difference to the discussion or not...forwarded to my sailors as soon as I saw it.  (One was entitled to PCRA.)

NS

[misratah500]

That's funny that this came out. Because our clerks told us pcra was not happening. So how does this effect people that didn't take hlta

[NavyShooter]

No mission leave used in theater = PCRA entitlement.

If you used mission leave while in theater, NO PCRA.

Shoot me a PM with your work e-mail and I can send you a copy of it.

NS

[jollyjacktar]

No mission leave used in theater = PCRA entitlement.

I'm curious.  How much is the PCRA entitlement?

[misratah500]

I was repatriated early in mid November due to compassionate reasons. I took my mission leave at home.  Does this change my eligibility.

[Zoomie]

If "they" decide to go the route of a GCS/GSM <Libya> it will require a minimum of 30 combat missions for aircrew to be eligible for the Star. If they don't meet that milestone, they will get the GSM.

[CDN Aviator]

If "they" decide to go the route of a GCS/GSM <Libya> it will require a minimum of 30 combat missions for aircrew to be eligible for the Star. If they don't meet that milestone, they will get the GSM.

Zoomie,

The GCS for OP ALLIED FORCE was issued to pilots and crews who had flow 5 missions over Kosovo and other territory.

The 30-mission requirement is for Crews based outside of the AO and flying into it and back out again, not crews based inside the JOA. For OP MOBILE, both Trapani and Sigonella were inside of the JOA.

[Zoomie]

I guess we'll just have to wait.  5 missions for a Star seems pretty low - 30 missions is more of a number to work towards. 

30 days on the ground or 30 missions overhead seems like a pretty good starting place.

I'm still waiting to see if the TB declares tax free status for that mission.  If so, we will actually have a leg to stand on for the current Afghan mission.

[CDN Aviator]

I'm still waiting to see if the TB declares tax free status for that mission.

That has already happened. I received my federal income tax back for that period already. Further to that, on this coming pay, the difference between what we had been paid in RA and the Maximum is being paid to us. HA is also finally being paid

OP ALLIED FORCE GCS criteria :

http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhr-ddhr/chc-tdh/chart-tableau-eng.asp?ref=GCS_AF

The GCS with ALLIED FORCE ribbon is awarded to fighter pilots and AWACS crew members who flew at least 5 sorties during Operation ALLIED FORCE from 24 March to 10 June 1999 in the theatre of operations which consisted of the airspace over Kosovo and other territories of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Albania, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and the Adriatic and Ionian seas.

There is no blanket 30-flight requirement for the GCS unless they make it so for that specific mission, as evidence with the ALLIED FORCE one.

The SWA GCS requires 30 sorties for crews flying into theatre, not for the crews based in theatre.

[Zoomie]

That has already happened. I received my federal income tax back for that period already. Further to that, on this coming pay, the difference between what we had been paid in RA and the Maximum is being paid to us. HA is also finally being paid

That's what I needed to hear. Time to make some waves

SWA aircraft that overfly Afghanistan are also based within the AOR - same as the Libya campaign.  It seems that the criteria for awarding the GCS is skewed.