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Best bet is to buy all the high tech survival gear you discovered you needed right afterwards. And then spend the next 6-9 years looking over at it every time you walk through your garage before finally throwing it away.

What a laugh! If anyone thinks that this is going to put even a small dent in the retention problem they are dead wrong! Looking at this objectively, it took 2 decades and a severe pilot retention problem for the Air Force to ask Congress for this increase which only barely corrects the old bonus for inflation. Ridiculous. I'm right at the end of my commitment and for my own personal desires and situation it's not about the money. However, for the bonus to factor into my decision making and PERHAPS entice me into staying to 20 it would have to be $50K minimum. Even then the bonus comes into account only after significant increases in quality of life, changes to the promotion system, an end to the social experiments and having more senior leaders with integrity and a true desire to serve others instead of themselves.

As it stands right now, you couldn't pay me enough to stay in. Now fix some of the issues, get rid of the terrible middle management leadership, get rid of the bs deployments that contribute nothing but keep me away from my family for 6 months, end 365s and I would stay 20+

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The proposal to increase the bonus to $35K just barely covers inflation from 2000-2016. $25K in 2000 = $34,325 today. The other pay factor worthy of discussion is the ACIP. Hasn't increased in the critical 6-14 year range since 1990. $650 in 1990 = $1178 today. Pay won't keep everyone in, but it certainly won't hurt to take us back to pay rates on par or better than the 2000 era, which was the last time the AF was worried about retention.