Anyone know the National Guard Members' pay rate for driving a school bus?

TSgt Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:58:56 -0400

With multiple states activating troops to drive buses is it state pay or federal pay?

Response by SSG Roger Ayscue made Oct 1 at 2021 5:09 PM

SSG Roger Ayscue — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 17:09:29 -0400

Wow, Activating National Guard troops to drive school busses. Sounds like a good stop-gap, I wonder if they have thought about getting Retirees to do that same. With troops in uniform driving the busses, it could be a great Recruiting tool. To expose the kids to the Military doing something to serve the community. Great Idea

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 1 at 2021 8:41 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 20:41:52 -0400

Most likely state pay, rate unsure since last time I received it was back in 2008 for flood duty.

Response by SFC Michael Hasbun made Oct 2 at 2021 9:34 AM

SFC Michael Hasbun — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 09:34:52 -0400

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 4 at 2021 10:44 AM

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:44:09 -0400

I imagine State Active Duty, I did it for the COVID mission and it was whatever our base pay was for our pay grade.

We were not given BAS and told to keep receipts for food until the end of the mission to be compensated up to $25 per day. Of course there was no BAH either, and eventually people were put up in local hotels, that created its own issues resulting in hotel changes a couple times. Funny enough it wasn't the joes causing the problems by and large. It was Civilian staff causing problems or not holding to the agreement for the contract, but I digress from the BAS.

As you can imagine this pissed commanders and SNCO's off because now Soldiers were basically encouraged to eat fast food or go through the grocery store every single day and only buy a little of what they needed. On top of that the limited fridge space in the hotels also encouraged fast food, combined with the fact that they didn't want you traveling to locations with high concentrations of people such as stores. Eventually SAD ended and it was T32 though and all that nonsense went away.

Could be different depending on the State though for these bus driver orders.