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Old 06-18-2013, 02:49 PM
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gr8vu
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Joined APC: Apr 2013
Position: Retired AF/A320 FO
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The fighter pilot pipeline has become so small that the community cannot produce enough pilots to fill all it positions (AETC, rated staff, RPA, etc). This has impacted AMC where for example the mobility community is readily used to fill AETC IP slots and ACC staff positions. Where AMC sqdns used to be manned at 110% plus we are now held to 100% and the prior excess is used to fill prior ACC allocations. Can only give my opinion on the "why" or "how" we got here but it's where we are today. It's now the norm in AMC to see pilots do 2-3 ops to ops assignments. The AMC pipeline has the ability to produce bigger/excess numbers to make up for the shortfall on fighter side. Interesting times ahead.
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