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Just posted. Exactly the same as January but now 05 and 04 are not RIF eligible...
Says the data is from March...
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Any new PSDMs to accompany the slides?
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Can anyone offer any advice if I'm looking at a VA purchase of a home that could use some updating? My wife and I are looking at a place, and there's a lot of great character to it, but to get it up to 'standards' we're looking at about an additional 20k investment.
From what we've been told by our lender, VA home loans can only be for the purchase price of the home; so does anyone have any advice on if there are any alternative methods to doing this?
http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/housing/sfh/203k/203k--df
HUD home improvement loan.
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Is anyone able to check MyPers to see if the new RIF slides were posted as has been promised in the last two "Pulse on Force Management" articles? The AF portal and MyPers are down for non-.mil domain users currently.
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What's the deal with the overage matrix only showing a few year groups, but the eligibility matrix still showing lots of blue for most year groups?
Thats for FSB eligibles, not RIF eligibles.
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The term "Top Tier" in an OPR is considered a third level stratification correct? Does the term mean or help you during a board if there isn't a number after it to back it up?
Phrases don't help you on boards. Concrete strats do.
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Do they have updated numbers anywhere, or just the blue/red box matrix?
Nothing is updated. The red/blue matrix is the one they released on the 17th of last week (you know, the one they released too late to let folks know they weren't eligible anymore for the new TERA window that opened on the 15th).
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PSDM 14-08, VSP, was also updated. Looks like major changes to the rules WRT deployments and 365's.
EDIT: Changes have also been made to the new ADSC waiver table previously posted on MyPers. Looks like recoupment will now be required for any AFIT/AAD's paid for by big blue. Note says that HAF is in the process of approving/disapproving waiver to this policy.
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Talked to a friend at SOS. Bare in mind this is from a guy who didn't apply for VSP, so probably slept for half the speech, but it sounds like Gen Cox gave more generic BS with a few gold nuggets. Discussed numbers of applicants, eligibles and possibly numbers to get approved. Sounded like approx 2000 officers applied with 1400 eligible and they will approve approx 600. He also talked about UPT ADSCs. Said they originally had authority to waive up to 1 yr but had received delegated authority to waive up to 6. He was kind of unclear on these details but he was sure about the 6 yr number.
600 VSPs will be approved? The last numbers I saw estimated about 1900 Majors alone gone by the end of FY15 (might have been an AF Times article though). Sounds like the promise from James and Welsh to let volunteers go won't be honored...
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I had a 365 from '08-'09. The only gotacha I know of is moving your family at the government's expense during your year gone (which I did, and which they will offer you). That automatically bars you from getting a follow-on, no exceptions (no matter how much sense it makes to PCS you somewhere else).
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So it's 1610 at AFPC, I suppose it's safe to assume we are going into another weekend without a shred of real information about what's going on. I suppose rumor and innuendo will have to sustain us through the next 60 hours.
Edit: really don't want to be court martialed for a dumb message board post
We managed to corner a member of my DT today in a brief and got a few straight answers out of him. My understanding is that A1 and/or AFPC is under the gun to release the RIF matrices and associated guidance by the end of this month. If they fail, the RIF board date must be delayed again (supposedly driven by a legal requirement of 6 months between guidance/eligibility and the board itself).
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Revalidation fun coming to a base near you,..
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I was wondering how long it would take Tony to weigh in on this one...
http://www.jqpublic-blog.com/emails-edge-toxic-leadership-air-force-squadrons/
I love how he still manages to slam AFPC while addressing a totally unrelated topic.
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Firings in USAFE. Maybe someone in AFPC or A1 is next.
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I hear you, but transparency can be dangerous too (at times when rumor control is difficult). Trust Brig Gen Grosso- I promise you, she is a leader of great character who has the Air Force's best interest at heart, as should we all (core value #2).
Patience my friend, patience. Reference my post above.
Calling you out Liquid and Gen Chang! Would love to hear your perspective or are your tails between your legs since force shaping was announced?
Good luck getting Chang now. BG Grosso moved on from Director, Force Management Policy to head of the SAPR office on 31 Jan of this year (hmm wasn't that about a week before the bait and switch on 5 Feb....). My guess is some career SES is in charge now and "helping" all us poor blue suiters through these troubling times, and Chang doesn't want to add to his -20 reputation points.
CORRECTION: Chang has -20 points, not -19
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How does AFPC have the authority to order AFCENT to do anything? This policy was clearly written by a bunch of desk jockeys who have never deployed. During my last excursion to AFG I was working 18-20 hour shifts and lucky to get 2 to 4 hours of sleep a night. Soda/coffee/energy drinks were a necessity.
If they were really concerned about health issues they would be focusing on things like burn pits, electric diesel generators next to hooches, filthy (read: not hygienic) TCNs working at the DFACs, etc (but those aren't AFPC's purview IMHO either).
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Ready for another round in CY15? BOHICA.
And they were kind enough not extend the TERA or VSP window because, after all, it wasn't their fault everything was put on hold to actually figure out who was eligible and who wasn't.
Is anyone able to check MyPers and see if any of the charts, PSDMs, etc have been updated?
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More from PBS.
Lt Col Tater Tots gets the last laugh.
Holy shit, I finally googled Lt Col Tater Tots. Further proof our PME system is broken!
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"Senior Leaders Challenge Airmen to Reaffirm Commitment to Core Values"
We thats it folks. That should fix everything, time to shut this thread down. Leading by webpage, who knew?
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AFPC still taking and approving VSP apps...for those eligible (whatever that means).
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Anyone know if the "strategic delay" had anything to do with the massive quantity of applicants for the various voluntary sep programs (to the tune of tens of thousands...)? That's what I'm hearing...
I've heard its a combination of things:
1. Big blue realized that the FY restrictions imposed by congress on reducing the size of the force include all voluntary and involuntary measures, not simply the RIF board, and thus needed to spread actions across FY14 and FY15.
2. Only pilots were applying for VSP, virtually no non-rated line officers did.
3. The numbers of pilots were so overwhelming (i.e. far more applied than there were VSP slots) that AFPC had no criteria or rules established to decide who stays and who goes.
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Wright-Patt has some non-supervisory 14's.....Research labs and all that I guess....
The labs do not use the GS system, but rather something called "Lab Demo". The system allows AFRL to pay their specialized scientists and engineers like 14s/15s without the supervisory requirement. Even those in management use the Lab Demo system too. There are a scant few GS personnel here and there, but the lab is run by those in Lab Demo. While not perfect (or even easy), Lab Demo is lightyears ahead of the GS system in terms of holding personnel accountable and directly tying promotion, bonuses, etc to job performance.
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Just something I thought of the other day when I read the article about how miraculously the personnel cuts aren't going to be as bad as first thought - What's to stop someone from applying for the VSP/TERA multiple times until the window is closed? I'm afraid there will be plenty to VSP, or that this whole process was just a shakedown to scare Congress into easing the budget pressure and those who tried to bail will be left with every shitty deal over the remainder of our ADSC. I knew that was possible before I hit submit on my VSP application, but if it gets returned here shortly I think my next action will be to immediately resubmit. Maybe someone at AFPC will hit the wrong button the second time...
That article you're referencing was on AF Times, and I haven't seen that info on reducing from 25,000 anywhere else. I'm wondering if they got what SecAF said correct, their interpretations on Gen Welsh's masters degree comments from last weeks AFA conference are totally out of phase with what he said.
Curious how AF.mil's take on the SecAF's comments make no mention of a reduction from the 25,000 number. AF Times strikes again.
FY 15 Force Management Program (RIF, VSP, TERA)
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Not entirely true. About 815 '03 majors will not have 1 yr TIG by the date the board convenes and are not eligible. That means about 2/3s of the 03 year group will bear the entire cut burden. Additionally due to the line number distributions that means USAFA grads will be bearing a higher burden too.