Hey Nords, can you translate any of this into civilian English without breaching any protocols?
Fun parenting story: My spouse and I are both USNA graduates and we have years of active duty. When we wanted to have secret discussions in front of our adolescent daughter, we used a combination of midshipman slang and DoD acronyms. It's surprising how much information you can communicate with phonetically-pronounced code groups.
This "secret language" worked up until our daughter went to college on a Navy ROTC scholarship and started learning the same dialect. For more than six years now she's been remembering our parental conversations during her childhood years and having monthly blinding epiphanies: "Oh, that's what they meant!!" She's also learned an entire new Navy generation of acronyms that we've never heard before, so that leads to even more interesting conversations the next time we're together.
Solomon, I'm going to attempt a translation without putting words in your mouth. My apologies for any errors, and please correct me!
I'm totally guessing at the big picture here, but Solomon appears to be both a federal civil-service employee (with the Department of Defense) and a military servicemember of the Air National Guard. They're probably a dual-status technician: an esoteric classification of DoD employee who is required to maintain the military skills behind the civil-service job that they're doing. This is usually a highly-trained arcane skill like jet engine electronic troubleshooting & repair or weapons systems electronics & software repairs/upgrades.
They're awaiting an employment offer for a different dual-status tech DoD job on Oahu, which also requires transferring to a different ANG unit.
Update:
Upon returning from my first summer TDY, I found no change had occurred in either of my statuses. For my Air National Guard (ANG) transfer, the process simply takes "a long time"; for my prospective technician position on Oahu, apparently a (fourth) document was not given to me during my physical, preventing a DoD physician from reviewing all my medical history and test results while I was away. It is a bummer - I honestly was prepared to board a plane and begin anew last week if the firm offer had been given - but life goes on.
TDY = Temporary DutY
(Some of these acronyms were created when FORTRAN and IBM punchcards were the bee's knees, and three letters in a data field were mandatory.)
TDY is a set of military orders usually assigned for short schools or other training.
They're trying to transfer from one state's ANG unit to another, which means that the adjutants of each state (the top military Guard official, who works for the governor) have to review/approve the process. Part of that includes a medical clearance performed according to the standards of the Department of Defense. Normally the ANG works for the governor, but for combat missions the state (temporarily) surrenders authority to the DoD. The DoD medical standards ensure that the servicemember is ready to deploy for combat whenever necessary.
Usually the status of a process is updated in a state or federal database for the servicemember's command, but it's not easy for the servicemember to access. People tend to get the word only when they muster for the monthly drill weekend or when there's a problem (and a letter in the postal mail).
To make this even more complicated, they're applying for a technician's billet that's actually handled by a federal civil-service employee of the Department of Defense. There might be additional physical or medical qualifications that have to be checked by the DoD medical guidelines as well as the ANG requirements.
Given the week at home/work, I learned that (1) my fulltime "permanent temporary technician" position will be terminated in September and (2) a HI ANG unit is interested in accepting me for a cross-training opportunity. The former development is out of the blue - apparently all temporary technician positions within the ANG are to be terminated without the prospect of extensions by the end of FY16 - while the latter had been predicted due to the duties of my current AFSC already being carried out by contractors in the ANG.
Apparently permanent authority was given to a unit to put a technician temporarily in a billet. (Even if "temporary" means "365 days per year".) However the entire U.S. military is still in a drawdown, so DoD went to the trouble to not only kill the funding for the billet but exerted the extra effort to kill the billet as well. Perhaps the whole system of "permanent temporary" billets has been eliminated.
But DoD and HI ANG still want this servicemember for a different vacant dual-status billet (which may be permanently permanent, at least until the next drawdown), as long as they can be trained to handle the duties of that other billet as well.
The military fiscal year runs from October through September, so FY16 is October 2015 - September 2016. I think it's supposed to be tied to the federal government or the Congressional legislative calendar, but it mostly just confuses the heck out of people.
AFSC = Air Force Specialty Code (the Air National Guard uses Air Force designations & terminology). In this case, all the military billets (which would've been filled by ANG members with this AFSC) have been outsourced to civilian contractors. (Not to DoD civil service but rather to civilians from a corporation like Grumman.) Someone must've been happy with the outsourcing, so they went back and killed those billets too.
Going forward, I can see two possible routes if/when the firm offer is received:
1) I will be given a reporting date for the technician position between today and September 2016, which I will honor by utilizing all the valuable insight and guidance bestowed upon me by my MMM brothers and sisters to best acclimate myself to the island (thank you, Nords, for the O'ahu light rail construction notice - it appears properties in Aiea, along the Ala Aoloa Loop, and traveling to-and-from my civilian retail employer won't be affected (http://www.honolulutransit.org/ride/route-map)). Then, after several months into FY17, I will take (KG) leave so I may learn my new military career at a CONUS installation; returning to Oahu after graduation. OR
The funding for that "permanent temporary" tech is still good through the end of September, so they could still come out to Oahu to start the technician job and also join this ANG unit. Then starting October 2016 (FY17) they'd have to find a new tech billet.
"KG" is a payroll code for leave from the job due to military orders. It's part of the DoD's accounting system for civil-service employees. It's probably a different (incompatible) FORTRAN/IBM format.
CONUS = CONtinental US, although technically that's just the first 48 states.
In other words, Solomon would move to Oahu for the last few months of FY16 funding in that DoD tech billet that's being killed. Solomon would get to know Oahu and get to know their new HI ANG duties while working in a familiar dual-status tech job. In FY17, when the dual-status billet ends, they'll probably take leave from the DoD dual-technician status job on Oahu and be cross-trained for the HI ANG's new billet's AFSC by going TDY to a CONUS training facility that's not available on Oahu. (See how this new vocabulary sort of takes over the English language?)
2) I will be accepted by the military unit before the technician final offer is received. Accordingly, I will be enrolled in the first available class date of FY17 (this October?). When coupled with the technician final offer, I will simply submit my military training orders after my acceptance, which effectively places a hold on my move until after I graduate from tech school in early 2017. Once completed, I will then report to both my new DoD technician and ANG military owning entities at the same time in early 2017.
With all the bureaucracy to date, it's pretty clear that the HI ANG will complete the transfer to their unit before the DoD "permanent temporary" dual-status technician transfer is approved. (If it's ever approved at all.) That clears Solomon to have the ANG unit issue the TDY orders for the next available school for the new AFSC while they're still on the Mainland.
If Solomon gets the new technician civil-service offer then they'll accept the offer and stay on the Mainland while taking leave from the new tech job to do the military training. Once they get the new AFSC then they'll be qualified to do a different DoD civil-service dual-status technician job (as well as a different HI ANG military billet).
Reality (2) above is the most likely but is certainly not ideal (though it would save taxpayers significant $$ due to my current close proximity to the technical school of my future AFSC). Learning two distinctly different occupations concurrently will be challenging - especially since I will also be establishing a new life routine when not "on the clock" - but I can handle the stress so long as I quickly identify stable residential and transportation options on O'ahu.
Although Solomon would be transferred to a HI ANG unit and given a different DoD civil-service technician job, that would all be on paper. The reality is that they'd stay on the Mainland and do the tech school for the new AFSC, then move to Oahu. Since the DoD is paying for the move (our tax dollars at work) that's cheaper than moving Solomon to Oahu and then paying for a TDY trip back to the Mainland.
The "downside" is that after all of this training, Solomon would (1) move to Oahu to (2) join the new HI ANG unit and (3) learn the new civil-service tech job at the same time. Which is pretty much what the military does with every transfer to a new duty station, but learning two new jobs at the same time would be extra fun.
Given the above continued uncertainty about when I will physically relocate to O'ahu, I have not pursued any residential leads since my last commentary. However, I did learn that another ANG Airman in a neighboring state is also being heavily recruited to join me on setting up a new life in Honolulu. He is to graduate with his masters in December and would be ready to relocate next January. If reality (2) comes to fruition and his recruitment process is expedited (mine has already lapsed eight months), we could find ourselves moving at the same time next year. I have proposed rooming together to my Wingman shortly before my completed TDY but have not received a response (I don't anticipate receiving a response from him this month, either, as he is TDY and I will be the same in another week).
The Air Force and the ANG call their servicemembers "Airmen" instead of "Soldiers", "Sailors", or "Marines".
"Wingman" is the AF/ANG partner term for "Battle Buddy", "Shipmate", or "Marine". Of course the civilian definition of "wingman" is a whole different subject.
Having a roommate on Oahu opens a lot of new rental opportunities.