WolfPack0708

VSP approved. 51J, 9 years, 1 ADSC for PCS, applied 6 Feb. Notified via email. Thanks for all the information posted in here from everyone. Major

Cue the circus music... A friend of mine that's on Air Staff tells me that she was on a telecon with the guy that A1 has tapped to run this debacle. It's none other than the AF SAPR official accused of sexual battery last year: Lt Col Jeff Krusinki. No joke. I have to keep laughing, or I'd start crying.

For all TERA folks: one of our CC's briefed this week that one of their members unexpectedly showed up on a loss roster so the squadron went and asked him what was going on. He had no idea so he called the total force support center and was told that he had been approved for TERA. I know you all will be shocked to learn that he never received any notification from AFPC that he had been approved; so make sure that you're checking on your application weekly with the TFSC.

Cue circus music... AF finalizing details for two officer force management programs Friday, February 28, 2014 9:12 0 (Before It's News) by Debbie Gildea Air Force Personnel Center Public Affairs 2/28/2014 - JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) – Details for implementation of two fiscal 2014 officer force management programs announced in December are being finalized to allow Air Force officials to release eligibility criteria, Air Force Personnel Center officials said today. Details regarding the reduction in force board, coupled with voluntary separation pay, and the force shaping board are expected to be released within the next two weeks, said Col. Joe Atkins, the AFPC operations division chief. “We understand that because the programs were addressed in a Dec. 11 news story, many potentially eligible officers are waiting for the details so that they can make some critical career decisions,” Atkins said. “Air Staff and AFPC experts are working aggressively to refine the eligibility criteria and provide accurate information as quickly as possible. This still allows an eligible officer a three-month window to apply for voluntary separation programs.” The application window for other force management programs already announced, such as officer and enlisted Temporary Early Retirement Authority and enlisted voluntary separation pay, remain the same. To see all available FY14 force management programs, go to myPers at https://mypers.af.mil and enter FY14 Force Management Program in the search window.

Longtime lurker, first time poster here. In the interests of disclosure: I am not rated. I found this board by accident in 2011, when I was trying to find any kind of intelligent discussion on the force management programs that year. This year is the first year I ended up being eligible for VSP, so I came back and have been happy to find that the discussion has kept up. I appreciate you all for your comments, I learn more from reading this board than my command, the A1 community and my functional combined. It's sad that this is where my information has to come from, but thank you nonetheless. Given all that I have learned from you all, I wanted to share some tidbits that I have come across. Take them for what they're worth. This week in our staff meeting, our FSS/CC said that officer VSP packages will not be reviewed for at least two weeks. Apparently the Chief heard you all. The VSP packages are being held up while a package routes through A1 to look at waiving ADSCs for UPT. Finally someone realized that it isn't fair to have a blanket denial for VSP and then subject folks to the RIF. That's not saying that UPT ADSC's will be waived, but it is being looked at by the Air Staff. Second, our functional works pretty closely with A1. He said that the initial overage matrix put out by AFPC aren't necessarily a lie, but in all probability they won't be the final number of cuts. Apparently A1 puts a worst case scenario for cuts out there at the beginning, knowing that isn't what's going to happen. In theory this is so that everyone is on notice that the cuts could be bad. It isn't lost on them that one of the effects of this is that people freak out about how bad the cuts will be and get out voluntarily. Expect the number of "overages" to drop. Like I said, take these for what they're worth. Thank you all for putting this discussion out there.