Posted on 12/09/2023 10:52:09 AM PST by DFG
Air Force pilots and others in rated fields who opt to stay in uniform can earn up to $600,000 over 12 years under the latest round of retention bonuses announced Nov. 30.
The fiscal year 2024 incentives offer manned aircraft and drone pilots, combat systems operators and air battle managers an extra $15,000 to $50,000 per year, depending on their assigned aircraft and the years to which they commit.
Annual bonus pay programs aim to keep airmen around to blunt the effects of a pilot shortage that has lasted decades, robbing the service of aviators in policy jobs that rely on their know-how to help the service plan for the future.
“The requirement to preserve critical skills in our Air Force has never been more important,” Maj. Gen. Adrian Spain, the training and readiness director at Air Force headquarters, said in a Nov. 30 release. “Retaining these professional aviators’ experience and expertise … is imperative in order to outpace future challenges.”
Bonuses are funneled through a pair of programs that target airmen as they near the end of their initial service commitment, or the time they owe the Air Force after training. Those agreements last 10 years for manned aircraft pilots and six years for drone operators, CSOs and ABMs.
One initiative, the Rated Officer Retention Demonstration Program, is open to active duty airmen whose contracts expire in fiscal 2025 or 2026. How much extra pay they nab depends on how much time is left before their commitment ends, according to a chart the service provided to Air Force Times on Thursday.
Fighter, bomber, mobility, search-and-rescue and special operations pilots, as well as those in high-altitude U-2 reconnaissance planes, can earn $30,000 to $35,000 a year with a three- to four-year contract — or $90,000 to $140,000 in total.
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“ “The requirement to preserve critical skills in our Air Force has never been more important,” Maj. Gen. Adrian Spain, the training and readiness director at Air Force headquarters, said…”
Diversity isn’t working out for them. That’s the AirForces main goal.
Em…I think vaccines was their main goal.
Worked out reel gud for Lt Gen Spain, the Real American ™
$600,000 but with a catch: The pilots have to accept they are racist if they are white, accept they are white supremacists, agree children should have sex changes, and transsexuals should be their CO’s
Since it’s the Air Force if they threw in a butt plug their retention and recruitment would go up.
I guess this sounds good — until they decide to do another round of forced medical experiments on the people in uniform.
The price for their souls.
Knew a pilot who had a stroke after getting shot.
Transgender minorities who can stand on a tarmac are eligible for a &6 million bonus.
Soucre: https://www.pacaf.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/591338/icemen-show-their-colors-during-lgbt-pride-month-kick-off/
Source: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/05/29/lgbtq-and-indigenous-focus-groups-hope-influence-air-force-policy.html
There is definitely a shortage of pilots, the flight school at my airport is SOLD out, they just bought another plane last week, and it will be booked solid by next week. Problem is, most of the instructors will be moving on to real flying jobs in the next 6 months and they desperately need more. But a lot of new students are coming in regularly. Gonna be interesting to watch it play out.
YES I realize that when Brandon starts the WWIII they will be calling me and my friends up, wont matter, we are still short of pilots big time.
And that's true. But there are so many more disadvantages to being an Air Force pilot.
OR, pilots can join any number of airlines at 5 times that rate.
I know of many Air Force pilots ditching military service for the airlines. Many!
“Die for Davos!”
I was flattered at the time but this $600,000 makes me feel like a simple grunt.
I was anti-vaccine before most people around here even knew what that was—but the reality is that members of the armed forces have been guinea pigs for vaccines for many decades—it is just a part of the deal.
It is when they start propagandizing and then coercing civilians that I start getting an “attitude”.
I saw an ad recently by united airlines calling for people to enter into their pilot training program. Never seen that before.
With Charley Brown as the Joint Chief, white pilots won't get the bonus. Brown decided that we have too many white pilots.
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