Tankerwife

As long as you can get into your vMPF to check on what is being offered or changing, and check AFPCs website (which hasn't had much lately) you should be up to date. If my husband had applied just a few days earlier, he may have had a chance. Of course somebody told him that if he had already applied then got deployment orders, his PC application would have been cancelled. I don't see that in the AFI anywhere. Lot of people I talked to have no idea what palace chase even is, and these are military spouses and people that work on base. I got really frustrated hearing stories from him that people at work told him. Especially because he has been an 11M for over a freakin decade and deployed 13 times, people in his office have deployed once if any and most people he works with now are civilians! After I read through a few hundred pages of AFIs then I got mad that he listened to these people. It was a Guard recruiter, I believe, that gave him a time frame for PC, when he should have been applying much earlier, then about 3 days before he would have had paperwork done & ready to submit, he gets deployment notification!!! They posted the continuation criteria in MyPers over a week ago, seems much better chances this year compared to last year's when it said they were reducing forces, no longer says that! So I feel a little bit better now.

Maybe the recruiter thinks that just because they are not offering the current incentive, that was released in January I think, to any 11x? My husband has a friend that works over in AFPC, in another area, that said apply... Of course now he can't because he got deployment orders & is not currently aircrew. Seems that pilots are still getting processed through for now and it is not a critically manned area. Looking at last year's numbers they had on the pages of reports just on pilots and navs it seemed like a lot of people left last FY. It was a bit surprising to read. It is one of the 100+ reports on MyPers, I think more people need to read those & AFIs cause I am getting sick of hearing what "other people at the office say" because it is usually wrong!