Wow, when the AF Slash and Burns, they really Slash and Burn.
I'd head straight for my nearest AFRES commissioned recruiter - They've gotta be cherry picking right now...
Wow, when the AF Slash and Burns, they really Slash and Burn.
Update from DS just now, he said that all the Non Rated Cadets at his DET were offered the release because all fell in the AFSC categories listed. He said that the cadre advised that they are looking to reduce 300 slots. Cadre also advised that there would be less EA's offered this year.
If I am doing the math correctly. @500 go rated. That would leave about 1700 non-rated, so they need to cut @17% from this yrs group.
The way that I read it for 13 was they were going to cut the ones that had yet to report for AD. That % becomes trickier to figure out because you don't know the amount that has not gone AD yet. If this was done last May, than it would have been easy to say it is 8% that they were cutting, but now that number could be higher if the only ones being offered it have not reported yet.
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Pima, I don't know the numbers from Y13 but the numbers posted by nick from FY12 were 951 Non Rated line and 857 Rated line for a total of 1808 AFROTC AFSC slots for that year group. If the numbers for Non Rated for Y14 is similar to Y12, then the % will be alot higher!
Pima, I am pretty sure that this year, class of 2014 was the first class after the large cuts in SFT selection to have the high selection rate.
Beginning next year, the U.S. Army will place new restrictions on its Tuition Assistance program to ensure officers and enlisted personnel are focusing more on soldiering than higher education.
Soldiers will have to wait one year after completing initial-entry training before they can participate in the TA program.
Also, soldiers who use TA money to complete a four-year baccalaureate degree will have to wait 10 years before using TA again to pursue a post-graduate degree.
The number of positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff and the combatant commands increased 24 percent, to 21,952 in 2012 from 17,765 in 2010, according to a graphic accompanying an analysis earlier this year by Marcus Weisgerber, a reporter for Defense News.
More than half of the overall increase came from the Joint Staff, which simply absorbed positions from Joint Forces Command after Gates ordered the latter to be shuttered in 2010, according to the analysis.
In perhaps a harbinger of the difficulty in ordering actual layoffs, Hagel spared the position of Andrew Marshall, the 92-year-old who directs the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment, an internal think tank, though Marshall will now report to Undersecretary of Defense for Policy James Miller.
Hagel said the staff cuts are designed to occur primarily through workforce attrition rather than layoffs, but a DOD fact sheet distributed to reporters indicated that more abrupt cuts might be necessary if the Congress’ sequestration budget framework remains in place.
The final details of the planned cutbacks will not be available until the President’s budget request is submitted next year, but Hagel plans the following changes:
Restructuring the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy by eliminating some Senior Executive Service (SES) positions,including a Deputy Under Secretary position and four Deputy Assistant Secretary positions along with their support structure through consolidation.
Realigning the Office of the Director of Administration and Management (DA&M) and its components under the Deputy Chief Management Officer (DCMO) structure.
Transferring responsibility for business IT systems from DCMO to DOD’s Chief Information Officer.
Combining the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Oversight and the Defense Privacy and Civil Liberties Offices into a single entity.
Directing the Office of Net Assessment (ONA) to report to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
Rebalancing resources within the Office of Personnel and Readiness to focus more on force management, readiness, and compensation and benefits reform.
Directing the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence to plan how the organization should evolve after the post-9/11 drawdown.
Eliminating the five remaining non-Presidentially Appointed, Senate-confirmed (non-PAS) Deputy Under Secretaries of Defense.
It is not ageism.
It is fiscal. That is the system for govt. pay. Can his job be done at the same level with a 50 yr old?
~ my guess is YES.
We are facing a new world from a budget aspect, are you saying that you support a 92 YO working in a think tank as a director?
Have you thought about the fact think tanks take away from ops?
Have you realized the big schocker on Hagel's announcement is how bloated the military is? Think about it...200 jobs will save 1 BN, yet Mr. Marshall at the age of 92 is saved at whatever his SES salary is.
You know what I always told Bullet during his ADAF career?
~ The AF wouldn't be crying over his grave, his family will! Hate to say it Mr. Marshall at 92 did not get that memo.
So to condense all of that just a little bit; "yes."
E: comparing the value of a respected statesman who has experienced foreign policy firsthand in the service of every Presidency since Nixon to a couple of O1s based solely on salary is an amusing proposal. I'd say that Uncle Sam is getting a bargain.