Afi 38 201
16 community-sourced questions and answers. Free — no login.
What does the Chaplain Corp follow to establish manpower requirement determination processes to ensure they have properly identified the minimum manpower levels?
AFPD 38-2, Manpower, AFI 38-201, Determining Manpower Requirements, and AFI 38-204 Programming USAF Manpower.
How do you derive manpower requirements from AFMS that determine man-hour requirements?
Divide the MAF and appropriate overload factor into total man-hour requirements from the AFMS man-hour computation. If the flight has approved multiple MAFs, the MAJCOM determines the mix to meet local mission requirements.
How many days for the implement manpower requirement changes resulting from applications of newAFMS
90 days
What does implementation include?
Applying the AFMS and coding the manpower requirements with the correct codes to include an effective date of the current quarter, plus two fiscal quarters to allow lead time for personal actions.
Programmed Manpower
A critical service, and contractor full-time equivalents necessary to support an approved program. It is not a program by itself and not be manipulated independent of the program it supports.
Manpower Requirement
A statement of the manpower required to accomplish a specified job, workload, mission, or program.
Two types of manpower requirements
Funded and unfunded
Funded Manpower Requirements
Are validated and allocated manpower needs
Unfunded Manpower Requirements
Are validated manpower needs but are deferred because of budgetary constraints.
Manpower Authorization
A funded manpower requirement with detail that defines the position in terms of its function, organization, location, skill, grade, and other appropriate characteristics
End Strength
The count of Air Force military and civilian positions the Air Force needs to have funded in each year of the Future Year's Defense Program (FYDP) to accomplish all approved missions.
MAJCOM-established AGRAuthorizations
Include duties that support the applicable section of the United States Code Title 10 Armed Forces, AFPD 36-21, Utilization and Classification of Air Force Personnel, and AFI 36-2116
Who validates all AGR authorizations
Director of the Air National Guard /Chief of the Air Force
Where does MAJCOM/XPMs or equivalent send request too?
NGB/CF, 2500 Arny Pentagon, Washington DC. 20310-1150
Where are requirements routed to?
Requirements are validated by the agency manpower office and forward through NGB and HQ USAF
36-2619
Where can you reference MPA?
Looking for a different version?
CBTs get updated every year. Search for the exact version you're taking (e.g. "cyber awareness 2025").
Search all study materials