Originally Posted by
Elvis90
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?
Treated how? Meaning do they give preference to the guy still in when they did the recall? I don't know if they did.
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.
A1PP is fighting for money with everyone else. A3O and A1P both know there's a wave of departures coming. Tom W. at A3O-AT thinks they can keep the total RL/BL matched once you add in 18X's (UAV operators), but the fighter pilots cann't keep up with demands.