
When on this screen, you will want to choose Restore from an iTunes backup. During the setup process, it will ask if you want to restore data and from where. The June 23 press release announcing the Special Duty Assignment board's findings said "the board was unaware of the budgeted SDAP funds until after each request was considered if SDAP was warranted.If you have already set up your iPhone and it’s on the home screen, you will have to perform a factory reset to have the device appear as new again. Under the fiscal 2024 ask, it would be for around 29,800 airmen, according to the service's documents. Under last year's budget request, the Air Force said the bonus would be for an estimated 33,500 airmen.

In the prior year's budget, it asked for an estimated $96.2 million for the financial incentive.

In fiscal 2024 budget documents released this year, the Air Force detailed a $92.2 million ask for Special Duty Assignment Pay. Those in jobs receiving an increase in Special Duty Assignment Pay will see it in place starting Oct. Jobs where the Special Duty Assignment Pay is being reduced will be "given 90 days before the reduced rate will become effective," the release added. Those serving in a field that will be removed from the bonus list won't lose all the pay at once they will still receive Special Duty Assignment Pay at "a rate of one-half their original SDAP through Sept. The service determined that 14 jobs were reapproved for the bonus, two were newly approved and three were cut, according to the news release. The Space Force also completed its own service-specific Special Duty Assignment Pay board, utilizing the same criteria as the Air Force. Just weeks before the cuts were scheduled to take place, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall made a speech in September 2022 at the Air & Space Forces Association's annual conference, where he announced the cuts would be reversed. Last year, hundreds of airmen were scheduled to see cuts to their fiscal 2023 Special Duty Assignment Pay, according to budget documents. The press release does disclose that 70 jobs were approved to receive Special Duty Assignment Pay and that, of those, "four were initial requests that were certified for the first time, 48 were recertified at their current rate, 11 increased rate and seven decreased rate to maintain parity with specialties of similar duties, responsibilities and training."īut there's no mention of what specific jobs are seeing increases, decreases or losing the bonus altogether. The June 23 press release from the Department of the Air Force said the new board "focused on identifying personnel in extremely demanding positions with unusually challenging responsibilities based on a defendable scoring methodology, and decisions were made agnostic of budgetary funding." The Department of the Air Force did not respond when asked why the list was not being released publicly, telling only that it "released the FY24 Special Duty Assignment Pay through command channels, reaching those who are directly impacted, and can be found on myFSS." taxpayers have a right to know how much they are paying members of the military." "The Air Force public affairs office is once again showing a reflexive secrecy, withholding unclassified information from the public without justification," Paladino said.

The Department of the Air Force's choice not to publicly disclose what jobs are being cut from Special Duty Assignment Pay is concerning to government watchdogs like Jason Paladino, a researcher at the nonprofit Project on Government Oversight.
