Montreal Meet (December 29 to January 2(+))

[Gammagooey]

yeah totally calling dibs on that, should be able to get some kind of answer from my coworkers on the usual jan. workload by the end of this week!

[Malakittens]

Ugh I want to go

[Maruchan]

So I have a maybe third person for coming up

[Maruchan]

So I get to jump through like 1000 hoops to travel outside of the continental US on personnal travel, and one of the things I need to provide to the agency giving me clearance to visit Canada is a full physical address and point of contact with contact information for my visit to Canada


if any of you Canadians wouldn't mind being plugged in to the Department of Defense's clearance-granting authority as my point of contact, I would greatly appreciate it. <3

[dramonic]

ummm sure?
What do you need exactly?

[Maruchan]

physical address, full legal name, daytime phone number should be sufficient.

[Albert B. Rampage]

The U.S. Department of State VA Passport?

[Maruchan]

Nope. Some third party randomness dot mil website that gives military authorization for foreign country travel. Don't have links on my cell but if your curious ill give you the compendium of links I was given by my antiterrorism officer to guide me in my process of leaving the united states legally as military

[hiplop]

/out, probably.

[Maruchan]

The U.S. Department of State VA Passport?

This is the response to a request to leave the country:

EM2

Canada is fairly easy, but still has some requirements. Good on you for planning well in advance!

Check the Foreign Clearance Guide https://www.fcg.pentagon.mil for the country/countries to which you intend to travel. Sections 1 and 4 will provide the information necessary for your travel request, to include training, documentation, medical forms, etc. Sections 6 and 7 provide amplifying information that you will need for the IFPP request. Additionally, you will need to know the FPCON and threat levels of the area in which you are traveling. This will dictate who approves your travel; FPCON B is first O6, FPCON C is first O7. You cannot just submit an eLeave request in NSIPS, as DCOM or CSG-8 would be unable to approve it. Begin filling out any required forms, requesting visas, and completing the required training now for travel in July/August.

Once you have completed all required training, input the information into APACS https://apacs.dtic.mil/apacs/apacsservl ... apacsLogin, if required for country and or theater clearance. This will alert the DAO that you intend to travel to a particular country and AOR. If theater and or country clearance is required, you must have an approved APACS request in order to travel.

Then you will draft an IFPP, using the MAY16 template on SIPR. It outlines specifics on your travel, the required training, and contact information, and general contingency plans. This message will go out to CDS-28 for approval, or further routing to CSG-8. Your DIVO and Chief can assist if you do not have SIPR access (if not, I can assist). The IFPP will identify your flight plan; this does not mean buy the tickets now, instead have the intended flight plan so it can be approved and then you can purchase it.
The end result is to have everything to them 45 days out so they can review and take action before the 30 day deadline.

Keeping your CoC, MAC, and me informed the whole time will make things go by smoothly. Any questions or concerns, please let me know!

Respectfully
ATO

The APACS one is the one that needed the contact information, for the Country Clearance. Luckily, I need no Theater Clearance!

[dramonic]

/out, probably.

[Katsuki]

/out, probably.

WHAT THE FUCK YOU FUCKER

[PJ.]

/out, probably.

WHAT THE FUCK YOU FUCKER

[Maruchan]

/out, probably.

WHAT THE FUCK YOU FUCKER

[PJ.]

Uh. I think I'm for real /out instead of fake /out. Some of my favorite people aren't gonna make it and the counterterrorism platoon is real weird.

[Aristophanes]

/out, probably.

WHAT THE FUCK YOU FUCKER

[hiplop]

Uh. I think I'm for real /out instead of fake /out. Some of my favorite people aren't gonna make it and the counterterrorism platoon is real weird.

hey its only a probably /out

[dramonic]

you're probably the worst T_T

[hiplop]

uhhh

awkwardly /in >_>

overreacted to something

[pirate mollie]

[Aristophanes]

HashtagSwag

[Albert B. Rampage]

The U.S. Department of State VA Passport?

This is the response to a request to leave the country:

EM2

Canada is fairly easy, but still has some requirements. Good on you for planning well in advance!

Check the Foreign Clearance Guide https://www.fcg.pentagon.mil for the country/countries to which you intend to travel. Sections 1 and 4 will provide the information necessary for your travel request, to include training, documentation, medical forms, etc. Sections 6 and 7 provide amplifying information that you will need for the IFPP request. Additionally, you will need to know the FPCON and threat levels of the area in which you are traveling. This will dictate who approves your travel; FPCON B is first O6, FPCON C is first O7. You cannot just submit an eLeave request in NSIPS, as DCOM or CSG-8 would be unable to approve it. Begin filling out any required forms, requesting visas, and completing the required training now for travel in July/August.

Once you have completed all required training, input the information into APACS https://apacs.dtic.mil/apacs/apacsservl ... apacsLogin, if required for country and or theater clearance. This will alert the DAO that you intend to travel to a particular country and AOR. If theater and or country clearance is required, you must have an approved APACS request in order to travel.

Then you will draft an IFPP, using the MAY16 template on SIPR. It outlines specifics on your travel, the required training, and contact information, and general contingency plans. This message will go out to CDS-28 for approval, or further routing to CSG-8. Your DIVO and Chief can assist if you do not have SIPR access (if not, I can assist). The IFPP will identify your flight plan; this does not mean buy the tickets now, instead have the intended flight plan so it can be approved and then you can purchase it.
The end result is to have everything to them 45 days out so they can review and take action before the 30 day deadline.

Keeping your CoC, MAC, and me informed the whole time will make things go by smoothly. Any questions or concerns, please let me know!

Respectfully
ATO

The APACS one is the one that needed the contact information, for the Country Clearance. Luckily, I need no Theater Clearance!

No wonder most you guys never leave the US

[Maruchan]

Yeah. Its a bit of a hassle even for the easy countries. Plus you have to start planning like 2 months out and you can usually never plan that far ahead in the military.

But we also have loopholes where I just visited 8 countries in the past 8 months and didn't pay a dime of travel expenses.

[Vi]

Owl dahling, how is Friday structured? Is it a pack-up-and-get-out-by-5PM sort of arrangement?

[dramonic]

sorta, but the landlord is pretty lax and we can just haul people over to my/DGB/Mina/Albert's place if necessary at that point.