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FROM AF Daily Report 18 Nov 09

Too Much of a Good Thing: The Air Force has too many airmen in hand—thanks to the poor economy which officials believe has led to a higher retention rate—so plans to shed 3,700 personnel during fiscal 2010 to stay on target for an end strength of 331,700 airmen. The service plans to use voluntary and involuntary early separation and retirement programs, as needed, to cut 2,074 officers and 1,633 enlisted members. USAF is facing a $228 million personnel funding shortfall. To cut the enlisted force, it will institute a date of separation rollback and reduce specialty quotas, eliminating those airmen who fail to complete initial technical training. Officials expect to have to continue the officer reductions into 2011 since they do not believe voluntary measures will cover the entire 2,074. The officer plan includes reducing the 2010 officer training school accessions by 144 and delaying 417 ROTC graduates. (Air Force Personnel Center report by Daniel Elkins)

Son-of-a-b!%&#........

I'm supposed to hear back December 4thish if I was accepted into OTS....guess it just got that much harder lol

Maybe not.
If your forces are like ours they still recruit at the same level even if they reduce in numbers. The Brits just don't sign people up for extensions.
The theory being that more people have been through military training should a future national emergency need a general mobilization.

That's how come I couldn't extend in '84, as we had to pay for the Falklands with cutbacks.

Good thing I just reenlisted in March!

Does that mean that my extention in the Andrew was more to do with economics and less my stellar performance twiddling dials on a radio

My experience with serveral SERB (Selective Early Retirement Board) and Enlisted Select-out boards has been that the Military Personnel Center (it used to be called that, I don't know if it still is) develops criteria for 'selecting-out' people. The SERBs operated exactly like a Promotion Board in reverse. A set of year groups was put into the pool and the board then ranked them. Some percentage was then selected for early retirement. The saving grace is that if you were SERBED, you were ineligible for another one for several years.
At one time you had more SERB exposure than promotion opportunity. I think that program has been stopped. But it would be easy to do it again. Definately not good advertisement for those seeking a career. Probably part of the reason it died.