| Member Aviation Service Entry Base Date | | Description | Member Aviation Service Entry Base Date is the calendar date on which a DoD Military Service member first reports, under competent orders, to flight training leading to the original rating.
Usage
Member Aviation Service Entry Base Date is used to document the calendar date on which a DoD Military Service member first reports, under competent orders, to flight training leading to the original rating.
Member Aviation Service Entry Base Date is also used to determine when an aviation officer is no longer eligible for aviation career incentive pay (ACIP) due to reaching twenty-five years of aviation Service and not a warrant officer; entitlement to continuous ACIP ceases for an officer (other than a warrant officer) upon completion of twenty-five years of aviation Service. Officers above pay grade O-6 with over twenty-five years of aviation Service are not entitled to ACIP, either continuous or conditional.
Member Aviation Service Entry Base Date is also used to determine when a aviation officer reaches a control or gate year; which relates to the rate in which ACIP will be paid.
Member Aviation Service Entry Base Date may also be referred to as Aviation Service Date. | |