Rules for Appointment of Reserve Officers in PAF

Appointment to the Regular Force involves placement in the Philippine Air Force (PAF) promotion list for regular officers.
Seniority is primarily calculated based on total active commissioned service in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
Specific rules apply for calculating seniority:
- The difference in total AFP service affects seniority when one officer has longer PAF service but shorter total AFP service compared to another.
- Active service counted from assignment date in any PAF unit.
- Excludes service before Aviation Cadet appointment and in guerrilla units.
- Reserve officers must have at least one more year of total AFP active service than Philippine Military Academy graduates above whom they are placed.

Among pilot officers graduating together from flying schools, their relative seniority during training is retained.
Groups of pilot officers who graduated together are inserted according to class standing and relative seniority to existing members on the promotion list.
Special provisions prevent insertion above officers who graduated earlier unless those officers were deferred by a promotion board.
No reserve pilot officer can be appointed at a rank higher than any regular PAF pilot officer with longer active service.

Non-pilot reserve officers are placed according to total active service.
They cannot outrank any non-pilot regular officer with longer active commissioned service.
The order ensures fair positioning relative to regular officers with comparable service.

Reserve officers appointed under this order receive grades equivalent to the officer immediately above them in the regular promotion list.

The order took effect immediately upon issuance.
It remains operative for the two-year period stipulated in Republic Act No. 1915.