The Air National Guard (ANG) utilizes a cadre of full time personnel to provide its administration, training, and ongoing operational needs. This cadre, drawn from the ANG's traditional weekender personnel, is called the Full Time Support (FTS) system. FTS personnel are under one of two programs--Military Technician (MT) and Military Duty (MD). The older, more dominant MT program is federal civil service, and the newer MD program is military active duty. With entirely different compensation, benefit and work rule packages, the two programs are indiscriminately intermixed at most ANG installations. This paper describes the dual personnel system and discusses its potential for problems from the base-level point of view. Recommendations are made to individual personnel and commanders as to how to best live with the system, with suggestions to the program managers as to how the system could be made more palatable to the ANG at base level.

Recounts the Air National Guard's service and heritage as part of the nation's military forces. Traces the militia tradition and connects this story with the rising influence of air power. Outlines the Air National Guard's three primary missions: to reinforce active duty forces in wartime; to assist State governments responding to natural disasters and public emergencies; and to provide various community service functions. L.C. card 94-067989.

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