[Degradation of SUPT]

6 minutes ago, hindsight2020 said:

Seriously, does anybody know what the "consolation" assignment was? Kinda hard to plaster your sob story on the internet about getting a 38 UPT gig removed from you, if you scoffed offline at a T-6 assignment to the same location, which would have effectively ameliorated the life disruption issue for the family. Not saying that's what happened here, just asking. 

T-6s to Pensacola.

[Pilot Shortage Deepens, USAF is SCREWED.]

1 minute ago, flyusaf83 said:

Cool. Can you point me to the AF slides that detail how they plan on improving retention (pay and QoL)?  I’m all for a multipronged solution, but the AF is only working one side of the problem, and it happens to be the side that isn’t an actual problem (production).  

So pardon us when we don’t trust AF management to fix the self-induced problem they can’t even admit to, let alone fix.

Pay and retention really aren't in AETC's wheelhouse are they? Pay at the very least is a HAF problem. You can't just take some slides from AETC and then proclaim that the Air Force is ignoring QoL and pay. Though they very well may be.

[Pilot Shortage Deepens, USAF is SCREWED.]

26 minutes ago, Jaded said:

Welcome to Baseops, random guy who just happens to use his second post to defend AETC.

Not exactly defending AETC, but production is the only part they can really take the lead on. So I guess I am. Oh well.

I understand that production didn't get us here, but now it is so bad that retention alone can't fix the problem. Hence the need to increase production.

But if that's the only solution, we're not fixing anything.

[Pilot Shortage Deepens, USAF is SCREWED.]

I think many people are missing the point to a degree. Yes, this is a retention problem. However, there is also a production problem, too, because retention has gotten so bad. This is proposal (of several hopefully) to fix part of the entire problem. And it isn't focusing on culture, support, dwell, or money because this is AETC, the command responsible for producing pilots, trying to figure out how to increase production.

Obviously things need to get better, but let's not shit on the people looking at different ways to fix a significant part of the problem.

[Promotion and PRF Information]

40 minutes ago, matmacwc said:

Nope, it's still the AIR Force.  

So do we support the creation of separate Cyber and Space Forces?