Pay and Allowances Continuation (PAC) is for service members during their hospitalization and rehabilitation resulting from wounds, injury, or illness incurred while on duty in a hostile fire area or exposed to an event of hostile fire or other hostile action anywhere in the world.

If an Air Force Reserve Service member on active duty incurs a wound, injury, or illness in the line of duty while serving in a combat operation or a combat zone, while serving in a hostile fire area, or while exposed to a hostile fire event (regardless of location),, and is hospitalized for treatment of the wound, injury, or illness, the Secretary concerned may continue to pay to the member, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, all pay and allowances (including any bonus, special and incentive pay, or similar benefit) that were being paid to the member at the time the member incurred the wound, injury, or illness.

PAC is intended to allow service members to continue to receive all pay and allowances (including any bonus, special and incentive pay, or similar benefit) that were being paid to the member at the time the member incurred the wound, injury, or illness.

PAC may continue until the end of the first month beginning after the earliest of the following dates:

• Is returned for assignment to other than a medical or patient unit for duty (The return to assignment is based on a determination that the member is fully fit to perform full military duties)

• Was hospitalized for one year for the treatment of a wound, injury, or illness; or

• Is discharged, separated, or retired (including temporary disability retirement) from the uniformed services.

Note: The Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness can under "extraordinary circumstances" extend PAC for six-month periods beyond the one-year limit under the authority of USC, title 37, Section 372.

For more information on PAC, contact your Chain of Command, the staff at the Recovery Coordination Program, or contact you Casualty Affairs Representative (CAR) Check with your CAR (normally located in your Military and Family Readiness Center) to see if you qualify for PAC pay.

Air Force Wounded Warrior (AFW2) Program:
https://www.woundedwarrior.af.mil/Benefits-and-Entitlements/Compensation/

Wounded, Ill, and/or Injured Compensation and Benefits Handbook:
https://warriorcare.dodlive.mil/Portals/113/Documents/Benefits/WCPBenefitsHandbook_JANUARY_Final_UPDATES.pdf

DoD FMR 7000.14-R, Volume 7A, Chapter 13: “Illness Or Injury Payment Programs”
https://comptroller.defense.gov/Portals/45/documents/fmr/current/07a/07a_13.pdf

In addition, contact information for Military and Family Readiness Centers (M&FRC) on Air Force installations may be located on the Military Resource Locator Library on MyAirForceBenefits:
https://www.myairforcebenefits.us.af.mil/Benefit-Library/Resource-Locator