I've never understood why Reserve pay seems to be so screwed up. I left the Naval Reserve 25 years ago and it sounds to me as if many of the pay problems we had then still exist. Only now it seems, we have computers to help foul it up faster and more seriously. :nod: What is so difficult about inputting a pay sheet into the system in a timely manner? Apparently, I was lucky in that I only had one serious pay problem in my time in the Reserve. The master print-out of payments printed my name on the seam between two pages (i.e. it didn't print) and so a cheque was never issued. It took two years to sort it out. I had actually left the Reserve by then and I had to personally go to the finance section at Central Militia Area HQ, but I did get my money in the end (after they confirmed that the cheque that was never issued was never cashed). All my other pay was on time and I had my first pay within my first month in the Reserve.