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Personnel Support Detachment Bahrain

Personnel Support Detachment Bahrain. Sole Personnel Support Detachment in CENTCOM theater providing pay, personnel and transportation services to 92 tenant commands and all forces operating in or transiting the COMNAVCENT/FIFTH FLEET and AFRICOM AORs. OIC. ADMIN. AOIC/SEL.

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Personnel Support Detachment Bahrain

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  1. Personnel Support Detachment Bahrain Sole Personnel Support Detachment in CENTCOM theater providing pay, personnel and transportation services to 92 tenant commands and all forces operating in or transiting the COMNAVCENT/FIFTH FLEET and AFRICOM AORs.

  2. OIC ADMIN AOIC/SEL Down Range Processing Sites DISBURSING OPS/ESO NAVPTO FISCAL CTO Bahrain CAC/ID TRANSFERS TRAVEL CTO Djibouti CUST SVC RECEIPTS Djibouti Disbursing QA/PERS ACTG ASST ESO

  3. Not Your Typical PSD • Largest Cash Operation in the Navy • No Remote/Centralized Processing Support (Travel Claims, Travel, etc…) – We do it All • 11 “Down Range” Processing Sites: Afghanistan, Kuwait, Djibouti, Isa, USS PONCE, and Individual Support throughout the Region • Executive Agent Support (All Services, Coast Guard, Foreign Military, Contractors, State Department) CAC Cards, Check Cashing, Travel, Passport Agent… • Unique Programs: Eagle Cash, ITS.GOV, Currency Transport, DLAB/DLPT Testing, Currency Exchange, Savings Deposit Program, IDP

  4. We Are the Bank • Only Authorized U.S. Currency Importer in the Middle East or Africa • Currency Exchange • Commercial Banking • Ship Support • Currency Transport • Politics Affect our Business

  5. PSD Bahrain Annual Workload • Regional support services to COMUSNAVCENT/5th FLT and AFRICOM. • 1500 PCS transfers and 1500 gains • 36,000 Transaction Online Processing System (TOPS) documents • 54,000 NSIPS and DMO transactions • 2300 Navy-wide advancement Exams • 200 AOR/ASVAB exams • 7500 travel claims < $20M • 5900 TLA claims < $9M

  6. PSD Bahrain Annual Workload Cont’d • 5500 CAC / I.D. Cards • 25,000 Tickets < 9.6M • ITS.GOV $96 million • Eagle Cash $7.8 million • Savings Deposit Program $8.8 million • 40 Paying agents with advances of $400,000

  7. Location Benefits • Money, Money, Money -Tax Free -IDP -COLA -E3 Example – over 50% more take home than E3 in Norfolk • Living Conditions • Work Experience / Advancement • FEML / EML • OTEIP

  8. Location Drawbacks • Heat – Black Flag is flying • Ramadan • Uniform Policy • Liberty Restrictions • Driving • Product Availability • Recreation Availability • Dependent Quotas

  9. Challenges • 12 Month Tour – 10 Months of Work • OTEIP Decision within your first month of work • Junior Personnel • CPC Program • Facility Issues • Supply Support • Time/Work Week Difference for Support • Expansion limitations • Remote Support and Quality Cut • Atypical Full Time Jobs: IDP, SDP, TLA, Commercial Banking Support ADDO

  10. IDP • Law Change = Process Change • National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2012 • NAVADMIN 062/12 • MPA 11-12 • Not “geared” for full time PCS any longer • Exemption from DFAS • Coordination Process • Adjustment applicable to TAD outside country and ALL Leave

  11. Future • NSA 2 • Bahrain is too expensive • OIC Predictions • Loss of Tax Free/IDP • IA/GSA Reductions will equal loss of manpower • CSD Djibouti

  12. Djibouti - Present • Three processing sites: Camp PSO, HOA J1, Disbursing • Separate Chains of Command with Processing OPCON to PSD Bahrain • PSO and HOA J1 currently treated as any other “down-range” site. • Disbursing HOA (J8) is also ADCON for all financial business, to include daily business, cash DDO responsibility, etc…

  13. Disbursing Djibouti (HOA J8) • Process all Navy Camp Travel Claims • Serves as the U.S. “Bank” in Africa under PSD Bahrain Supervision • Executive Agent for SDP, Check Cashing, Currency Exchange, Pay Agents, and Eagle Cash

  14. Disbursing (HOA J8) • A Division of HOA J8. • Fulfills Executive Agent Role to All Services. Like Bahrain - The Only “Bank” in the Region • Currency Exchange • Check Cashing • Pay Agent Service • Eagle Cash • Saving Deposit Program • Commercial Services to NEX, MWR, Deployed Command Support

  15. HOA J1 • Element within HOA J1 that provides Pay and Personnel Support for HOA Personnel only. • Manning office for HOA. • PSs provide general manning support as well as LCPO services. • PSs may be switched between J1, Disbursing and General Duty Assignments

  16. Personnel Support Office (PSO) • Military Pay and Personnel Service to all Camp Lemonnier personnel and “non-deployment” tenant commands. • Executive Agent for all ID Card Processing • Educational Service Office for all Navy Commands

  17. Djibouti - Future • Rolling up the functions of Camp Lemonnier PSO, HOA Personnel and HOA Disbursing into CSD Djibouti • Camp Lemonnier becomes NAF Djibouti on 1 October 2012 • Billets convert from IA to PCS Oct 12 – TBD Baseline Completion • CSD Bahrain formal stand-up 1 October 2013 (dependent upon billets/funding) • Current facilities necessitate maintaining a two building split between Pay and PERS functions.

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