A utility to determine whether a specific IP address is accessible. It works by sending a packet to the specified address and waiting for a reply. PING is used primarily to troubleshoot Internet connections. There are many freeware and sharewarePing utilities available for personal computers. It is often believed that Ping is an abbreviation for Packet Internet Groper, but Ping's author has stated that the names comes from the sound that a sonar makes.
Base Pay. Base pay is a term that generally describes the minimum compensation that you can expect to make on your job. Base pay can be expressed in terms of an hourly rate of pay, such as $10.15 per hour, or it can be expressed in a number of other different forms. If you work on a salary basis, your base pay may be expressed as a monthly figure such as $4,000 per month, or on a yearly basis as $48,000 per year. Annual Pay Annual pay differs somewhat from base pay because annual pay is not necessarily a baseline or minimum figure you can expect to make.
There are two methods for determining the retired pay base. They are the final pay method and the high-36 month average method. The final pay method, as the name implies, establishes the retired pay base equal to final basic pay. The high-36 method is the average of the highest 36 months of basic pay divided by 36. This is generally the last 3 years of service and is sometimes called high-3. The method used depends upon when the member first entered military service.