{"id":38505,"date":"2013-11-19T14:23:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T19:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38505"},"modified":"2013-11-19T14:25:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T19:25:42","slug":"air-force-cant-keep-pilots-with-225k-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38505","title":{"rendered":"Air Force can&#8217;t keep pilots with $225k bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/montgomery\/2013\/11\/air_force_finds_few_takers_for.html\">AL.com<\/a> reports that teh Air Force is still having trouble keeping pilots in uniform even with a $225,000 bonus for signing on for nine more years;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In June, the Air Force said it would give $225,000 signing bonuses for military aviators that commit to an additional nine-year flying fighter jets. The bonus would be paid in a lump-sum of $112,500 with the rest being paid out over the remaining nine years of the contract.<\/p>\n<p>The bonus offer was a $100,000 increase from the existing amount that required a five-year commitment. Salary ranges for the job would remain the same &#8211; anywhere from $34,500 to $97,400 a year.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Force was hoping to land more than 150 veteran military aviators to commit to the nine years in an effort to overcome growing deficit of fighter pilots.<\/p>\n<p>That hasn&#8217;t happened, however. The Air Force won&#8217;t say how many pilots have applied for the bonus by the Oct. 31 deadline but conceded the number was small. Acting Secretary of the Air Force Eric Fanning said a reduction in flying hours due to budget cuts is to blame for the lack of interest. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, it&#8217;s sequestration that did it &#8211; and maybe watching the Pentagon pick apart retirees&#8217; benefits and squabble about retirement packages.  And that&#8217;s pilots with huge bonuses &#8211; imagine what will happen to the rest of the career fields &#8211; the force will hemorrhage   experience. The Pentagon is doing what the Taliban couldn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL.com reports that teh Air Force is still having trouble keeping pilots in uniform even with &hellip; <a title=\"Air Force can&#8217;t keep pilots with $225k bonus\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38505\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air Force can&#8217;t keep pilots with $225k bonus<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}