AFI 36-2301 - Air Force E-Publishing

44 AFI36-2301 16 JULY 2010
26.1.1. Eligible personnel who intend to decline PME attendance may request an
extension of the 5 duty day time period if needed. Provide justification and the calendar
date of additional time required. Forward extension requests to: AFPC/DPS via email,
fax, or memorandum. Unnecessary delay or failure in submitting this request and/or the
statement below will result in loss of declination opportunity.
26.1.2. Eligible personnel who decline EPME will sign the following statement: “I
decline to attend the (NCOA or AFSNCOA) class starting on (class start date), for which
I have been selected/scheduled. I have, or will have, 19 or more years of active service
as of class start date. I understand that this declination renders me ineligible for
promotion and reenlistment, and that I must retire upon reaching 20 years in service or
the first day of the seventh month following the date of this declination, whichever is
later. I further acknowledge that this declination renders me ineligible to participate in
the High Year Tenure Extension Program.” After updating AAC 9 in MilPDS, forward
the signed statement along with the signed AF Form 964, PCS, TDY or Training
Declination Statement to AFPC IAW established procedures for including miscellaneous
documents in member‘s Personnel Records Display Action (PRDA).
26.2. Deferments. Airmen selected for resident EPME may be deferred for compelling nonroutine
mission, humanitarian, medical, or other reasons (as described below) without
prejudice upon approval of the member‘s wing commander (or equivalent). Deferment
requests will be kept to the absolute minimum. EPME deferment requests require solid
justification, wing command chief coordination/concurrence, and wing commander (or
equivalent) approval. In all cases, resident attendance remains mandatory for enlisted
personnel as outlined in this Instruction.
26.2.1. Commanders, first sergeants, and supervisors should make their people available
as scheduled for EPME and hold deferment requests strictly to the following criteria.
26.2.1.1. Mission: The individual scheduled to attend is indispensible to the mission;
in short, the mission will fail without their presence. No other individual could stand
in or temporarily replace the selected individual. Mission deferments must contain
the verbiage ―…the mission will fail.‖
26.2.1.2. Humanitarian: The individual scheduled to attend has an unusually
stressful family or personal situation or an emergency situation with an immediate
family member as similarly defined under humanitarian reassignment guidance.
26.2.1.3. Medical: The individual scheduled to attend has a medical condition
(including some pregnancies) that renders him/her ineligible for course attendance or
requires on-going treatment (including Mental Health counseling and ADAPT
program) that would be detrimental if interrupted. EPME commandants will
determine the member‘s eligibility based on the school‘s ability to accommodate the
member‘s medical condition and an overall assessment of the member‘s ability to
meet course objectives.