Originally Posted by
Kikuchiyo
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.
True...I should have said that this is how I chose to use my Permissive TDY. It allowed me to take an earlier class date, thus getting a better seniority number.
Originally Posted by
Kikuchiyo
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.
Are fighter pilot projections that important anymore with a Chief of Staff who is mobility/special ops and an ACC commander who is a bomber pilot? I think they'd be more concerned with the number of pilots in general, particularly for the largest group: UAVs.
Perhaps you know: is an officer on active duty with his retirement application submitted treated differently than one who has already retired? Or are they treated the same? Despite the over end strength numbers, it seems logical that if a person were in a critical career field, i.e., EOD, Security Forces, Special Ops, or UAV Pilots, wouldn't the AF consider keeping that asset?
I think HAF/A1PP will not have a difficult time making its case as airline mandatory retirement numbers are presented...in excess of 2,000 by 2015... Probably ought to try and lock those guys in now. I use to work in HAF/XOOT (now AF/A3O-AT) and our job was managing the overall training pipeline and distribution of pilots, working side by side with what use to be AF/DPPP to ensure the red line (Requirements) and blue line (Inventory) were not that far apart.