Good evening!! Quick question that hopefully someone here might be able to help with. Our DD is c/o 2022 so where will her Home of Record be? Her dad is AD AF and we are currently stationed in FL. Our Home of Record is AZ but we are all AK residents. Her nomination came from an Alaskan MOC. Our DD has a CA driver’s license and she is graduating in FL (after only living here 10 months) so we are unsure if she will have FL as her HoR or if she can choose.
Thanks for any advice.
It took a little digging, but I found the Navy reg on Home of Record, see below link. Interesting how many times HOR and SLR for tax purposes came up, in all kinds of articles on military.com, intuit.com (tax articles), other unofficial but fairly reliable sources.
I also laughed because it’s a classic military situation, living in one place, driver’s license from somewhere else, etc.
I always understood it to be the place you were physically living from which you reported to active duty. So, I think your DD’s HOR will be FL. That will also be handy to elect as her SLR for state income tax purposes.
I didn’t want to guess, so here’s the reg:
http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/reference/milpersman/1000/1000General/Documents/1000-100.pdf
And the quote:
2. HOR
a. The place recorded as the Service member’s home when
commissioned, appointed, enlisted, inducted, or ordered into a
tour of active duty.
All the Services would be the same definition, since HOR is used for military benefits. I just know how to find stuff for Navy. HOR is really a geographic marker associated with each service member at their time of accession.
Did she also have a Presidential nom? There is usually no way of knowing at this point where her appointment will be charged.
If you wanted to talk to someone at USAFA about it, there has to be a Cadet Personnel Office. Assuming a parallel to USNA, with which I am familiar, the civil service folks there are long-time experts in all cadet-related record stuff. Now is the time to call, understanding that they are just about to process 2018’s orders, paperwork, close out cadet records, which peaks in May.
Edit: I took a deep breath and plunged into the JTR, Joint Travel Regulations, which has ruled benefits and entitlements of military members for decades. On page 20 in Appendix A, in the acronyms and terms list, is the root definition for HOR for all services.
https://www.defensetravel.dod.mil/D...ppendices/APP_316_(04-01-13)JFTRAppChange.pdf