Aviation Continuation Pay (ACP - The Bonus)

[uhhello]

2 hours ago, CaptainMorgan said:

I thought Bashi was Bashi’s troll account?


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[LookieRookie]

20 hours ago, General Chang said:

It’s time for the Air Force to cut loose any ideas of retention, drop the bonus to $0, and focus on growing our way forward.  You only need one-two gray beards at the top to run a flying squadron.  The rest can be O-3 and below.  Higher risk?  Sure, a little.  Push people through UPT in 6-months, FTUs in 2 months, double the output, and GROW our AF out of the pilot shortage.  Retention is a useless fight at this point.  Drop the bonus to $0.  We will be just fine.

I mean the latter half of this is going to happen somewhat anyways.

T-6 direct coming to a MAF/SOF RTU soon.

[FourFans]

You should know: General Chang is actually James "Don't Call Me Jimmy" Slife

[Swizzle]

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Edited July 10, 2023 by Swizzle
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/air-force-delays-bonuses-new-assignments-political-feud-space-commands-rcna93491

[uhhello]

42 minutes ago, Swizzle said:

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That's fucking hilarious 

[08Dawg]

That’s AF-speak for “you’re about to get hosed”…

[McJay Pilot]

Bwahahahaa! They ran out of money, mudda-fugging-ing idiots. This checks with Cannon getting a bunch of reservists to come out and then realizing they didn’t have the funding.

Edited July 11, 2023 by McJay Pilot
Still can’t say f.u.c.k

[uhhello]

2 minutes ago, McJay Pilot said:

Bwahahahaa! They ran out of money, mudda-fugging-ing idiots. This checks with Cannon getting a bunch of reservists to come out and then realizing they didn’t have the funding.

I mean when Congress cuts you off, not much you can do.  Its not just the bonus program, its everything. 

[Majestik Møøse]

Lockheed always gets their $69B annual revenue; don’t worry they will also plan and execute the war for us so we don’t need you guys

[BroncoEN]

“Restructure”…. Could they reduce the amount? Does this apply to ARC and AD?

[McJay Pilot]

53 minutes ago, uhhello said:

I mean when Congress cuts you off, not much you can do.  Its not just the bonus program, its everything. 

Fair point. Also fair that “idiots” covers a wide variety of people! 🍺

[CaptainMorgan]

“Restructure”…. Could they reduce the amount? Does this apply to ARC and AD?

Guessing so, and it’ll only be available to those who sign before they run out of money.


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[CaptainMorgan]

Now if only they would offer VSP and TERA…


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[Swizzle]

Notice the cryptic, scare tactic of while $ lasts one can re-contract that being when, IF, it returns, but all under the overarching context of the notification that the personnel budget just ran out of $ under their management. It drips with conflict.

...but AF/AFPC won't share how much or how many contracts potential slots remain. I don't know if AvB is in a separate pot/color of $ which is isolated. Is the medical professionals bonus $ separate?

[Pooter]

All this and some people still believed the "base of preference" nonsense.

[jice]

To any young guys reading who know this but want to hear it externally: 

If you were on the fence before about taking the bonus, it is not rational to take the bonus solely based on [alleged] scarcity.  The value of the money and your time has not changed. (If you were going to take it but haven’t yet, scarcity is a rational consideration. So are continuing messes like this.)

Sadly, somewhere, some flesh-peddling fvck is seeing this cluster as an opportunity to pump up his rookie numbers. 

[BeefBears]

I'm sure the AFSOC flesh peddlers won't use this as an opportunity to delay PCSing people out of cannon... right?

[bad_timing]

I have an ADSC out to 20 years. I was planning on signing the bonus today. I logged in this morning to see that the window closed at 1630 CDT last night. "Surprise, fvcker!"

My UPT ADSC is up soon and I could've been free from these games. I regret choosing to stay in the AF.

Edited July 11, 2023 by bad_timing

[SocialD]

So they wait until the 9th month of the FY to roll out the bonus, it's out for like 3 minutes and then they shut'er down....you can't make this shit up.  Listen up young punks, this is what your leadership thinks of you, and I'm not just talking leaders in a military uniform. 

 

What do I expect them to do?  The same shit they expect me to do when they give me a TDY/Mission/task and only give me half the budget to accomplish it...figure it the fuck out!

[hindsight2020]

DOD can't pass an audit to save their lives, now this happy horsesh!t, Lockmart always gets its money though... and they still have the temerity of accusing my dual-vet household of sabotaging their recruitment efforts by steering our kids away from military service. Un.f^kin.real.

USAF takes run the clock offense to the Olympic Gold level. 

 

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[pawnman]

On 7/8/2023 at 10:19 AM, General Chang said:

It’s time for the Air Force to cut loose any ideas of retention, drop the bonus to $0, and focus on growing our way forward.  You only need one-two gray beards at the top to run a flying squadron.  The rest can be O-3 and below.  Higher risk?  Sure, a little.  Push people through UPT in 6-months, FTUs in 2 months, double the output, and GROW our AF out of the pilot shortage.  Retention is a useless fight at this point.  Drop the bonus to $0.  We will be just fine.

Looks like they took your advice, Chang. That next star is in sight!

[General Chang]

On 7/12/2023 at 6:06 AM, pawnman said:

Looks like they took your advice, Chang. That next star is in sight!

I sure hope so.  I deserve the extra money that another star would provide.

I will say this: for all of you complainers out there:  seriously?  You are complaining Uncle Sam took away your pittance $50K/yr to sign your life away for the next 12 years?  Get over yourselves you premadonna punks!  Get out of my Air Force and go make your money elsewhere.  We don’t need you, and we don’t want you.  But please, for the love of Pete, stop complaining about missing out on table scraps.  It’s so unbecoming of an officer.

[SocialD]

28 minutes ago, General Chang said:

I sure hope so.  I deserve the extra money that another star would provide.

I will say this: for all of you complainers out there:  seriously?  You are complaining Uncle Sam took away your pittance $50K/yr to sign your life away for the next 12 years?  Get over yourselves you premadonna punks!  Get out of my Air Force and go make your money elsewhere.  We don’t need you, and we don’t want you.  But please, for the love of Pete, stop complaining about missing out on table scraps.  It’s so unbecoming of an officer.

 

 

I know you're trolling, but the bolded line is perfectly timed!  Well done.  LOL.

Edited July 16, 2023 by SocialD

[BeefBears]

On 7/11/2023 at 10:03 AM, bad_timing said:

I have an ADSC out to 20 years. I was planning on signing the bonus today. I logged in this morning to see that the window closed at 1630 CDT last night. "Surprise, fvcker!"

My UPT ADSC is up soon and I could've been free from these games. I regret choosing to stay in the AF.

Sorry but your name is very ironic based on your post. 

[BashiChuni]

On 7/16/2023 at 12:27 AM, General Chang said:

I sure hope so.  I deserve the extra money that another star would provide.

I will say this: for all of you complainers out there:  seriously?  You are complaining Uncle Sam took away your pittance $50K/yr to sign your life away for the next 12 years?  Get over yourselves you premadonna punks!  Get out of my Air Force and go make your money elsewhere.  We don’t need you, and we don’t want you.  But please, for the love of Pete, stop complaining about missing out on table scraps.  It’s so unbecoming of an officer.

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