Originally Posted by
Lowslung
Fair enough, BUT... At least when I left a decade ago, there were a mind boggling number of staff and deployed staff positions that had to be filled by rated officers. After spending years of watching the AF advance the careers of guys who planned Christmas parties and change of command ceremonies, deployed into completely superfluous billets, rode the coattails of mediocre (at best) leaders, and generally spent a ludicrous number of man-hours doing work that was exactly zero value added for the Air Force, I knew it was time to go.
Yes but don't throw out the baby with the bath water... having warfighter equities represented by WARFIGHTERS at all echelons of the defense establishment is priceless. Alternative is that it would be done by what AF folks call non-rated/shoes. Even if not all of those rated staff bodies are fully utilized in those roles, or in some cases not suitable to be fully utilized.