MCO 1326.2H - Administration Of Temporary Flight Orders

Scope

MCO 1326.2H governs the administration of temporary flight orders across the Marine Corps. Temporary flight orders put enlisted members, and certain officers, on flight status for duties requiring regular participation in flight. The order is the Marine Corps anchor for flight pay administration, and every inspection cite in the repo lands in its paragraph 4.

To administer temporary flight orders for all enlisted members, as well as certain officers, required to participate in regular [...]

Quoted from the document's opening section.

Audience

• Squadron and unit admin sections preparing flight duty assignment orders.
• Commanders responsible for convening monthly flight audit boards.
• Reporting unit and PAC clerks posting flight pay transactions in MCTFS.
• MCAAT inspectors working the special and hazardous duty pay checklist.

Content scope

Repo evidence names no chapter structure. Paragraph 4 carries the reporting, audit board, and documentation rules for flight pay, with subparagraph 4.a(2)(b)3 holding the monthly flight audit board requirement.

Operative content

• Flight pay is reported per paragraph 4, with DoD FMR Volume 7A Chapter 22 paragraph 2202 and MCTFSPRIUM 9-90101 Tables 9-1 and 9-2.
• Flight duty assignment orders are prepared under the same reference set, this order plus DoD FMR Chapter 22 and PRIUM Tables 9-1 and 9-2.
• Units conduct monthly flight audit boards. Paragraph 4.a(2)(b)3.
• Key supporting documents substantiating flight pay reach the reporting unit no later than 5 days after the end of the month. Paragraph 4, with MCTFSPRIUM 1-10100.6 and 2-20103.
• MCTFSPRIUM 90101 points detailing for flying duty to MCO 1326.2 and defines temporary definite orders as orders issued to non-crewmembers for hazardous duty performed for a period of 1 month or less.

Connection to higher policy

• DoD 7000.14-R Financial Management Regulation Volume 7A, Chapter 22. Incentive pay instructions and performance requirements for hazardous duty, including flight pay at paragraph 2202.

Connection to Marine Corps doctrine and lower policy

• MCTFSPRIUM 9-90101. Tables 9-1 through 9-7 prescribe the unit diary entries for commencement, termination, or change of incentive pay entitlement.
• MCO 1000.6 ACTSMAN. The PRIUM names it beside MCO 1326.2 for regulations on detailing personnel to hazardous duties.
• MCAAT admin special and hazardous duty pay checklist. Inspection items test the paragraph 4 rules above.

Status

Signed 2019-10-21. The MCPEL lists MCO 1326.2H as Current with the same publication date. Source PDF on file from the 2026-04-28 archive snapshot, and the external link opens the PDF on marines.mil. Inspection checklists render the paragraph 4 subparagraph string in differing formats, confirm the exact subparagraph against the signed order before writing findings.