Originally Posted by
Elvis90
5. Commanders are authorized to give you up to 20 days of permissive TDY for job hunting. It's just like Terminal Leave, and is added to your terminal leave.
You don't have to take the permissive job hunting TDY in conjunction with your terminal. It can be taken separately, or in several small pieces as long as the total doesn't exceed 20 days.
If you put in your papers and don't get hired, I'll bet the AF will take you back. The wording is that it has to be in the best interest of the AF to bring you back, and as they are 2,000 pilots short and getting worse, I think they'll consider it.
Projections are that the fighter pilot shortage will reach about 1500 before it starts to improve. The AF is currently 300+ Fighter Pilots short right now, but we're also 2000+ officers overmanned. HAF/A1PP is having a hard time justifying another rated recall, or even extensions to the current recallees given the $ costs of the overmanning. There will likely be very limited extensions and/or recall opportunities, particularly for fighter guys, but the timing may not line up well enough to count on it.