Originally Posted by
Hilltopper89
Yup. My experience is with 11Fs and it's a huge shortage...something like 1,000. They were bringing everybody, and I mean everybody, back to the airplane. My final assignment was at the FTU and I was amazed at some of the guys coming back to the TX course. I can't tell you how many times I said, "We brought THAT guy back? I thought we kicked him out of the community 4 years ago?"
I think AD retirement will be changing. I also think that those who are already retired won't see a change.
The old mantra of the LtCols are what was left standing is already back again. The bonus will stay inact so senior leaders can shrug their shoulders and say "what, we offered a bonus?" when congress wants to know why we don't have enough frontline, current, and experienced pilots to fight a one front war with Honduras.
Good thing we aren't talking about an O-11 shortage....then we could really be in trouble.