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Need a sanity check...
I flew active duty for 11+ years and accumulated 126 gate months. PHA is still current. Last fall I joined the ANG in a non-flying Wing Staff position. I don't intend on flying for the foreseeable future. HARM is refusing to turn flight pay back on claiming that since I'm in an API 6 billet on the UMD, I can't get flight pay unless I "I am in the process of acquiring an ACIQ slot." I disagree and think flight pay eligibility depends solely on gate months when in a non-flying billet...
Who's right?
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Car wash manager for minimum of 125K....thats like a senior Capt at a UPT base flying 3 sorties a day...goes to show you how far behind the Air Force is at valuing its pilots
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1 hour ago, 1111 said:
Grosso is the master of spin. How many stars did she get after VSP/TERA/FS lottery bonanza?! Of course stop loss is on the table. They tried to bully us by calling it early, then realized the potential for backlash, but that cat is out of the bag. I love how this leadership class have lost of every shred of integrity. It makes you chuckle every time you hear them talk about AF core values.
Goldfein backing Grosso today...
http://www.heritage.org/defense/event/rebuilding-air-force-readiness
watch the whole thing but stop loss talk at 17 min mark
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Cross posted in the other thread...
Looks like Grosso doesn't agree with Everhart
The disturbing part about this is it seems that the Air Force generals aren't even close to being on the same page with each other AND you even have generals acting on their own and talking with the industry about potential measures that aren't even being considered. Unreal
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Looks like Grosso doesn't agree with Everhart
the disturbing part about this is it seems that the Air Force generals aren't even close to being on the same page with each other AND you even have generals acting on their own and talking with the industry about potential measures that aren't even being considered. Unreal
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11 hours ago, Jaded said:
Can we rename this thread, "I'm not staying in, but does anyone know if the Air Force is going to give me more money before I leave?"
I see what he's saying. But ya never going to happen. If you opt into BRS as a pilot they will just wait and offer you the BRS continuation and the pilot retention bonus at the same time...that's not a bad chunk of change though.
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33 minutes ago, Azimuth said:
I don't think you'd like a lawyer telling you how to fly, lawyers don't like pilots telling them how to interpret law. If you think CC's don't consult the base JA for almost every piece of paperwork they issue someone (especially in AETC), then I have some beach front property to sell you in Wyoming.
Also if you knew anything about how IG complaints worked, which it sounds like you don't, the first question they ask you is "have you tried to resolve this through your chain of command?"
Good luck.
Y'all are right I have no idea what I'm talking about
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Anyone know how much the new BRS continuation bonus will be for pilots?
I know it's between 2.5X and 13X your base pay at the 8-12 year mark. Just didn't know if pilots would get the max if they opted in and took the BRS continuation bonus
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1 hour ago, Jaded said:
You've obviously never had first hand experience with the UCMJ. What's the quote?
"Military justice is to justice as military music is to music."
Ya I haven't and don't plan on it
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28 minutes ago, ihtfp06 said:
Guys! This is great news! According to faipmafiaofficial, CCs no longer have the ability to tell us where to stay! Phuck Al Udeid, downtown Doha from now on!!!
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkYa man you got it
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3 hours ago, faipmafiaofficial said:
Think that will hold up during an IG investigation for a CONUS base in a nice city?
If commanders give unlawful orders then the IG won't have their back. The schoolhouse cc clause in appendix O was removed in December of 2016. It is no longer in the JTR anywhere that a CC is allowed to take away your rights and entitlements given to you by federal law.
Commanders are are not allowed to disregard federal law and do whatever they want. Unless I'm wrong and I totally could be. But if they could, what's the point of the JTR?
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37 minutes ago, HossHarris said:
They'll cite security concerns or good order and discipline or some other nebulous reason. If you have nothing to lose, ask for the order in writing ....
Think that will hold up during an IG investigation for a CONUS base in a nice city?
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36 minutes ago, HossHarris said:
FALSE.
and disobeying an order will have consequences.
What gives him/her authority to override federal law?
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2 hours ago, the g-man said:
Yeah but you still have to spend 3 years Ion Enid/Del Rio/Columbus
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkColumbus is fine. Well worth the 1200 T-1 instructor hours
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1 hour ago, Duck said:
http://federalnewsradio.com/air-force/2017/03/air-force-meeting-airlines-pilot-shortage-may/
Home » Defense » Air Force » UPDATED: Air Force meeting…
EXCLUSIVE
UPDATED: Air Force meeting with airlines on pilot shortage in May
By Scott Maucione | @smaucioneWFED
March 27, 2017 3:04 pm
5 min read
The Air Force is preparing to meet with commercial flight companies in hopes it can find a way to stop the bleeding of experienced pilots leaving the force.
“Our senior leaders are going to start collaborating with the airlines in May to see if we can get a public private partnership and what that might look like, so I think that’s where you’ll see we are going,” Lt. Gen. Gina Grosso, the Air Force deputy chief of staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services, told Federal News Radio.
During a March 29 House Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee hearing, Grosso said that the Air Force is exploring an intermission program that would allow pilots to fly certain seasons with an airline company and then come back to the Air Force.
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“We are also starting to look at [allowing] aviators to fly part time on their on their own. I think those are just two ideas, and there are many more,” Grosso said.
Grosso said the partnership would look for a “win-win” situation for both the airlines and the Air Force.
“How can we get stability for defending and protecting the United States and how can [the airlines] get stability in having a pipeline for their aviators? We think there are some possibilities there, especially when we look to our allies,” Grosso said. “Our allies have national airlines, so it makes it a little easier, but there are definitely some models out there that we are hoping that we can take advantage of.”
The Air Force alone is dealing with a shortage of more than 600 pilots. The service is having trouble competing with airlines that can pay pilots more. The trouble comes when pilots are up for reenlistment.
Military pilots have training and hours required to qualify to fly for the major airlines without having to work for smaller regional airlines first.
“Because major airlines work on a seniority system, the best opportunity for salary growth in the major airlines occurs for military pilots leaving after their initial service obligation,” a July 2016 RAND report stated. Another factor that is appealing to military pilots is the Federal Aviation Administration increased the mandatory retirement age for pilots from 60 to 65 in 2007, giving pilots longer to cash in on their talents.
The military services tried using reenlistment bonuses to keep pilots in the force, but their appeal is dropping.
The Navy saw a 3.7 percent drop in new retention bonus contracts in 2015, dropping from almost 59 percent to 55 percent, stated a 2016 report to Congress.
The Air Force is seeing even bigger declines. In 2013, 68 percent of eligible pilots signed on for incentive pay contracts with the Air Force. That number dropped to 59 percent in 2014 and further to 55 percent in 2015. Only 410 out of 745 pilots eligible for bonuses actually took them in 2015. Only 42 percent of pilots offered early bonus contracts took the bait.
That’s especially troubling when the Air Force estimates that the cost to train one F-22 fighter pilot, for example, is $12.5 million.
One reason the report states for the pilots’ lack of interest in bonuses is the size of the incentive pay. Pilots are allowed a maximum $25,000 bonus per year, a number that has not changed since 1999.
That incentive pay may have worked five or 10 years ago when commercial airlines weren’t paying as well, but the RAND study states commercial airline pay has rebounded to mid-1990s peak salaries of $200,000.
“We have no trouble recruiting pilots. We have more people who want to be pilots than we have spaces to train them. For us the issue is … we are not retaining enough,” Grosso said.
Grosso added that as pilots reach their 11th year in the service the Air Force needs to keep around 65 percent. Over the years, that number has slowly declined.
“We have gaps in the force and we are very, very concerned about this and our chief has called this a crisis,” Grosso said.
Grosso told Congress the new blended retirement system may provide less of an incentive for pilots to stay in the service for a full 20 years as well.
Part of the Air Force’s attempt to become more appealing to pilots involves bettering their quality of life.
“What we found in the past — and we’ve been through this before because airlines have hired before — is quality of service is as important as quality of life. And quality of service is making sure that you’re given the opportunity to be the best you can be in your design, in your chosen occupation. Pilots who don’t fly, maintainers who’s don’t maintain, controllers who don’t control, will walk. And there’s not enough money in the Treasury to keep them in if we don’t need to give them the resources to be the best they can be. In my mind, readiness and morale are inexplicably linked. Where we have high readiness, we tend to have high moral because they’re given the opportunities to compete. Where we have low readiness, we have our lowest morale,” Air Force Chief of Staff David Goldfein told the Senate Armed Services Committee last September.
To make up for that the Air Force reduced additional training and extra duties for airmen, so they can have more free time. The service is currently looking for additional areas to cut in order to better quality of life.
Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) suggested the military services try to contact pilots who left the service, but did not join an airline to see if they may be interested in flying again.
“Maybe they went to start a business of their own or tried some other ‘grass is always greener’ thing and now they are realizing they miss the camaraderie, they miss the mission … it’s challenging to try and find these people it’s challenging to find the experienced pilots that have left. Maybe they are two, three, five years out, it doesn’t matter. Retraining them with the experience they’ve had and bringing them back even for just one assignment is worth the investment,” McSally said.
Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network ForumsIf I'm an airline CEO I'm just laughing at this. How would any of that above benefit them? They are REAPING the benefits of the Air Force losing pilots. Why would they even come to the table to talk about stuff like this?
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1 minute ago, ihtfp06 said:
Yes
Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkA schoolhouse commander cannot order you to stay on base
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Was just told by Travis finance that I would not be reimbursed for lodging if off base lodging was used when on base is available...Then got emailed back like an hour later saying they would lol
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The worst fighter pilot is better than the best heavy pilot. Duh
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4 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:
This is not entirely accurate. The whole reason we have hotels on base is so they can get their hands on the travel money. They lose it all when you go to a Marriott. I'm not saying I agree with the strategy, but if you don't think Wing Commanders are constantly updated on how well the revenue generators are doing, you're incorrect.
It's the same thing with the O-Clubs. Of course the AF, in it's perpetual quest to deny the long-established fundamentals of business and human motivation (pilot retention, alcohol policies, sexual assault training, mandatory fun runs, etc), has determined that the way to make a restaurant/hotel/bowling center profitable is not to increase the quality and value of the product to increase volume of sales, but to instead limit alternative options through restrictions and mandatory attendance.
You know... just like Amazon incentivizes you to shop there by banning you from Best Buy.
The JTR was written to encourage competition. "If you don't like your room, just go off base" That SHOULD cause base lodging to raise their game to get our business. Competition increases quality of product. 10 times out of 10 Base lodging sucks compared to off base lodging. Outdated/dirty/broken...etc base lodging rooms are the norm. Instead of renovating and fixing issues to compete in the market, wing leadership just forces people (up to 5 people in a 1 bedroom, 450 sq ft TLF) to stay in them and doesn't waste the money to fix anything.
Good times in the AF right now, good times
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1 minute ago, Jaded said:
Yes. There's no "appeal" to an LOR, and you're not entitled to a lawyer.
Lol fair enough. Who cares about regs then
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30 minutes ago, Jaded said:
A commander can always give you paperwork for whatever he wants.
Even if what you do is legal/not wrong?
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On 2/12/2017 at 10:07 AM, Lord Ratner said:
FYI. A commander can order you to stay on base (or at a particular hotel), but if you disobey, as long as you still follow the JTR, they have to reimburse you. Your commander can, however, punish you with paperwork for not following an order.
Where does it say they can override the JTR and order you to stay on base? Been looking for a week for this
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1 hour ago, Smokin said:
If that doesn't work, make it readily apparent to him that a 1 bedroom TLF isn't enough. Baby crying? Take him to the lobby. Kids going crazy for being pent up? I think the lobby would make a great playground. As soon as the manager takes a break, put the baby to sleep in his office and tell him that you consider the hallway to be an "suitable" office for him.
Love it. We will see what happens.
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Was told today that the lodging manager at Lackland decided the 1 bedroom TLF's are suitable for 5 people. He won't give a non-A unless you have 6 or more and a 1 bedroom unit is all that is available...thoughts?
Flight Pay question
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ya I've been in that reg. not a good answer in there unfortunately. I'm API 6, but dont plan on flying thats the big hangup