On Nov. 18, Michael Montelongo, senior Air Force financial
manager, told the Senate Armed Services Committee subcommittee
on readiness and management support that Air Force officials
are using an approach similar to the Army’s to deal with pay
issues involving reservists and guardsmen. “We set up a
(council) where we … work on three areas: integrating the
people involved in the process, making sure our processes
are as integrated as possible and doing some of the near-term
fixes in our personnel (and) pay systems so that we mitigate
… pay problems,” said Montelongo. These areas include the
Air Force’s personnel and finance communities and the Defense
Finance and Accounting Service, the Department of Defense-
level agency responsible for paying service members. In the
past, pay issues have risen from disconnects between at least
two of those areas — those internal to the Air Force, he said.
