Your Good Year status, participation requirements, and any days you owe — in about two minutes.
Know exactly where you stand — before it costs you.
Guard and Reserve members track two different clocks, and missing either one has real consequences. DutyDays checks both in one pass:
🎯Good Year check — are you on track for the 50 points your retirement year requires?
📋Participation check — will you meet your drill and Annual Tour requirements before the fiscal year closes?
📌What you owe — exactly how many days are outstanding, when they're due, and how much time you have left — including days that aren't showing in your official record.
Have these ready
📄Your PCARS — from vMPF: Self-Service Actions → Personal Data → ANG/USAFR Point Credit Summary → save the "All Pages" view as a PDF. (Don't have it handy? Manual entry works too.)
🗓️Your unit's drill schedule — for the full year. Remember: the military year started last October, so you'll need those fall dates too.
⏱️About two minutes. That's it.
🔒Private by design. Your PCARS is read entirely inside your browser — nothing is uploaded to any server. Anything you enter stays on this device only, and you can clear it anytime.
💾 We found saved info from a previous visit on this device.
Built by a Guard member who found out he owed days the hard way.
New to these terms? Quick glossary
PCARS
Your official point record — the Air Force's ledger of every duty day you've been credited. If it's not in PCARS, it doesn't count toward retirement.
UTA (drill)
Unit Training Assembly — a scheduled drill period. One drill day = 2 periods (morning + afternoon).
IDT period
Inactive Duty Training period — a 4-hour training block. A full drill day = 2 periods, so 48 required periods = 24 drill days.
RUTA (make-up drill)
Rescheduled UTA. When you're excused from a drill with a plan to make it up later — usually starts with an excusal form through your supervisor. Must be completed within the same fiscal year.
AT (Annual Tour)
Your ~15 days of active duty training each fiscal year (12 for IMAs). Separate from, and in addition to, drills.
Fiscal year (FY)
The military's budget year: Oct 1 – Sep 30. Drill and AT requirements run on this clock.
Anniversary year
Your personal 12-month retirement-points clock, starting on your R/R date. Different from the fiscal year — and both matter.
Good Year
50+ points earned in your anniversary year. You need 20 Good Years to qualify for Reserve retirement.
Step 1 — Upload your PCARS
Log into vMPF → Self-Service Actions → Personal Data → ANG/USAFR Point Credit Summary Inquiry → save the "All Pages" view as a PDF, then drop it here.
What's a PCARS?
Your official point record — the Air Force's ledger of every drill and duty day you've been credited for. If a day isn't in PCARS, it doesn't count toward retirement. That's why we check your schedule against it.
🔒Your file never leaves your device. It is read entirely inside your browser. Nothing is uploaded to any server.
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Drop your PCARS PDF here
or click to browse
Step 2 — Trust, but verify
Here's what we found in your PCARS. Check each value against your document before continuing.
⚠️Trust but verify. Automated reading isn't perfect, and PCARS itself can lag 60+ days behind your actual duty. Compare these values to your document — and if something looks wrong on the PCARS itself, contact your unit CSS/FSS.
The "From Date" under Current Anniversary Year Points Earned.
Anniversary year vs. fiscal year — the two clocks
Anniversary year: your personal 12-month clock for retirement points (needs 50 for a Good Year). Fiscal year (Oct 1 – Sep 30): the military's clock for drill and AT requirements. They overlap but don't line up — you can satisfy one and fail the other, which is exactly why this tool checks both.
"Inactive Duty Training" — current anniversary year.
"Active Duty Training" — current anniversary year.
Distance learning points, if any.
Missed drills
These are your RUTAs — rescheduled UTAs, or make-up drills. Per DAFMAN 36-2136, they must be completed within the same fiscal year they were missed.
Nothing owed for these — we just account for them so the points math adds up.
Worth a conversation: absences without an excusal can affect your participation status independent of your points — and the rules on this are strict enough that it's worth sorting out. Talk to your supervisor or unit CSS about whether those days can still be excused or made up. No judgment here — this tool just does math.
Step 3 — Your unit's schedule for the year
📅Heads up — the military year started last October. Enter every drill from through , including ones that already happened. Your unit's calendar-year schedule won't show last Oct–Dec — don't forget those.
Comparing your full year's schedule against your PCARS is how we spot days you may owe.
What's your unit's drill pattern?
4-day UTA
Every other month (6 per year)
2-day UTA
Every month (12 per year)
Custom
I'll enter each period myself
What counts as a drill (UTA)?
A UTA is a Unit Training Assembly — your scheduled drill. One drill day = 2 IDT periods (morning + afternoon blocks), so a 4-day UTA weekend = 8 periods. Don't include AFTPs (flying training periods) here — support for those is coming later.
UTA start dates
Annual Tour (AT)
Your ~15-day active duty requirement (12 for IMAs). Enter it if scheduled or completed this fiscal year — leave blank if not yet scheduled.
Other active duty this fiscal year (optional)
Special tours, ADOS, or other orders — total days.
DutyDays summary — generated — dutydays.com
📬 Never miss a deadline
We're building deadline reminders — a heads-up before your fiscal year closes or your anniversary year ends, based on exactly what you still owe. Join the waitlist: