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Old 04-19-2017, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by WhenPigsFLy View Post
Its already happening in the C130 guard/reserve world with IP's (All crew positions) being sent to A-stan for one year to teach the A-stan Air force.
How many Guard guys are actually being called up? Of them how many actually volunteered? I've heard of Reserve guys being individually mobilized but no Guard guys.

Status: Coordinating manpower requirements for 179/365-day assignments with the ARC.

Deployments: Review/validate all 179/365-day deployments and recommend AFCENT change ~ 10 billets
from 365-to-179 deployments, and change 11 F to other rated AFSCs....Working to coordinate man-days to enable more Guard and Reserve volunteers for these deployments.
Oh good, more deployments for the ARC! Are they trying to fix the AD shortage by worsening the ARC shortage?

-- New FTUs: Interim basing solution to stand-up two new F-16 Formal Training Units (FTUs) at Holloman
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-- More AGR IPs at FTUs: Fund 66 additional AGR Instructoi· Pilot positions at FTUs
More assignments to Holloman...again, are they trying to increase or decrease the shortage?

Good thing they shut down the FTU at Springfield.

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Might need more ADAIR companies...business opportunity? Although, I would want nothing to do with for profit tactical aviation!

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Old 04-21-2017, 07:32 PM
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The retention problem is real but it doesn't appear that stop loss is on the menu. Im ANG but this made it to my inbox. I will try to upload the bullet background paper.
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Recently there has been some open press coverage regarding "Stop Loss" of
pilots. Let me be clear, CSAF and I are NOT looking at "Stop Loss" as an
option to solve the 11F shortage. Stop Loss is a tool reserved for POTUS and
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I'm probably paranoid but when I read this as we are going to do a stop loss, but if we announce it right now a ton of guys will bail before we can make it official.

The 130 IPs to Afghanistan is a real deal for the guard. My unit can't get any aircraft commanders to upgrade to IP anymore. One of our navigator instructors quit rather than go. Most guys say I will fly anywhere with an American crew, but I'm not going to be the only American on a crew of Afgans.
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Old 04-22-2017, 04:52 AM
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Word of caution about taking 11F's out of some staff jobs. When you do this, someone else is being put into the slot. This someone might not be as capable or knowledgeable as that 11F. You can drive this train or you can let it drive you. This is why you have so many menus to fly the Rpa's. No pilots wanted anything to do with it and look at what we got.
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Old 04-22-2017, 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Klondike Bear View Post

The 130 IPs to Afghanistan is a real deal for the guard. My unit can't get any aircraft commanders to upgrade to IP anymore.
Wow! I had never heard of this for guard guys. Are these guard guys being non-volled to these gigs?
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Old 04-22-2017, 10:49 AM
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Originally Posted by crewdawg View Post
Wow! I had never heard of this for guard guys. Are these guard guys being non-volled to these gigs?
Yes... please expand on this "opportunity" for the Guardsmen.
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Old 04-22-2017, 11:02 AM
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Originally Posted by crewdawg View Post
Wow! I had never heard of this for guard guys. Are these guard guys being non-volled to these gigs?
They are asking for volunteers and since there are not many takers they are non-vol guys. Lots of guys getting out when their name is called for this opportunity. Rumor is they are going to start including aircraft commanders.
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Old 04-22-2017, 12:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Klondike Bear View Post
I'm probably paranoid but when I read this as we are going to do a stop loss, but if we announce it right now a ton of guys will bail before we can make it official.

The 130 IPs to Afghanistan is a real deal for the guard. My unit can't get any aircraft commanders to upgrade to IP anymore. One of our navigator instructors quit rather than go. Most guys say I will fly anywhere with an American crew, but I'm not going to be the only American on a crew of Afgans.
Can't blame them...with all the green-on-blue incidents. Every bro I have talked to that came back from it had nothing but awful experiences to share. For instance, many of them do actually believe Allah has the airplane...but I digress. The Air Force is also pushing Afghanistan/Pakistan hands on pilots. 1 year to learn Dari/Urdu in language school, 1 year on the ground there, 1 year on staff followed by another year on the ground....do we not have a pilot shortage or something?
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Old 04-22-2017, 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Klondike Bear View Post
They are asking for volunteers and since there are not many takers they are non-vol guys. Lots of guys getting out when their name is called for this opportunity. Rumor is they are going to start including aircraft commanders.
Crazy! I'm surprised TAGs are not pushing back on this...although I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't. I'm fairly certain there would be a mass exodus of our part-timers, after the first non-vol of this sort.

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Can't blame them...
For some many reasons.
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Old 04-22-2017, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by crewdawg View Post
A lot of the ARC guys are barely hanging on as it is now. If you start utilizing us more, you'll only drive more guys out. Before you start using the ARC more, they need to start cutting BS deployments. You have Guard fighter squadrons "deploying" to do NOTHING. Dudes are tired of being away from their families to NOT do what they've been trained to do. It's made worse by the fact that most of us take a giant pay cut to go on orders/deploy. I've seen a decent amount of dudes bail for heavies, UAVs, non-flying gigs, or just get out.
How often are Guard fighter units deploying? Are they at least flying?

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Alabama just went on a 6 month mobilization.
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