No. Drill is IDT (Inactive Duty Training), ODS is ADT which is active duty. AT and ADT are one period per day and IDT is up to 2 periods per day. You will need to reschedule your drill periods for later in the year when you get back from ODS. I would encourage you to take advantage of remote drilling to make up the time. You just need an approved telework packet which is easy to get.
Does building in a travel day guarantee that your orders will start on the travel day? (This is the first time I have ever built orders.)
Yes. You can’t travel if you are not on orders. When your requirements are built, what I have seen, is the start date is your report date, say 1/2/2023. You will change the orders start date manually to 1/1/2023 if you need a travel day. They will go over all this stuff at ODS and your NRC training department who approves your NROWs orders can help as well.
Thank you! I'll take a look tonight. How far in advance should my NRC training department be approving my orders? My report date is 21JAN2023 and I haven't heard anything from the NRC yet.
Can be very last minute. Have u been gained by your nrc and completed indoc?
No way he can be at this point of the process and not be gained. The NRC training department is who requested his quota for ODS.
It will vary by NRC. Get in good with the training PO and they will take care of you. It might be held up somewhere else but they can help push it along just stay persistent and call every few days.
Oh yes, I've been drilling for a few months now.
I'm honestly not sure my NRC has a training PO - they are at less than 33% staffing these days. I'll try and check this week; if I can't get a hold of anyone, this weekend is my birth month so I'll be at the NRC anyway.
Nothing. If you have booked your travel through DTS you are good. Your orders have to be fully approved before you book in DTS.
To be honest, no - I don't remember doing that. I feel like DTS showed my ODS orders, but it didn't require me to upload anything.
You should have went into NROWS and downloaded a copy of your approved orders to attach to your DTS submission. When you do your voucher you will have to submit signed orders as well for payment. If your NRC is following rules your DTS should be denied for not having your orders attached. Not a big deal just add them and resubmit. If they approved it though you can add it on the back end so no big deal.
Ah, I think you read my post before I edited it. I don't see my ODS orders attached in DTS (see above). Do you know in which section I'm supposed to add them?
Not off the top of my head. Maybe the expense section. Click add expense and scroll down to travel documents or other and select travel orders? That is the best I can describe… probably wrong but I am confident you can figure it out.
I'm in Class 23030, so I'll be leaving as your coming in. Looks like @cecseabee is right before me, but so far nobody going at the same time as any of us.
