{"id":67395,"date":"2016-08-11T09:55:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T13:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67395"},"modified":"2016-08-11T09:55:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T13:55:36","slug":"air-force-admits-pilot-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67395","title":{"rendered":"Air Force admits pilot shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/air-force-struggles-fighter-pilot-shortage-amid-air-221425917.html?nhp=1\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that the Air Force is struggling with a shortage of pilots. Yeah, we&#8217;re mired in an endless air war and the Air Force cut back flying time, bonuses and air frames &#8211; who knew that pilots who couldn&#8217;t fly would leave the service? The Air Force blames the commercial airlines for luring away the talent, because it certainly couldn&#8217;t be Air force policies that&#8217;s chasing them away;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Air Force has grappled with pilot retention for some time, particularly as airlines look to hire them, promising higher salaries and benefits. James said the pilot shortage could grow to 1,000 in a couple years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The airlines are forecast to be hiring a lot more,&#8221; she said, adding that the Air Force also needs to increase its training of new pilots.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, they planning on increasing bonuses for drone crews;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James also told Pentagon reporters Wednesday that she is planning to pay drone pilots a $35,000 a year retention bonus to encourage them to stay in the service.<\/p>\n<p>The 35,000 a year retention bonus would be an increase over $25,000 bonus the service has been allowed to provide. And all drone pilots would be eligible once their service contract is up. She added that Air Force needs the authority to increase bonuses for all pilots in order to address the shortage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More opportunities for pilots to stay on the ground &#8211; that should bring them in herds.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew that focusing on social warfare instead of the actual national security warfare would impact readiness?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that the Air Force is struggling with a shortage of pilots. Yeah, &hellip; <a title=\"Air Force admits pilot shortage\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67395\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Air Force admits pilot shortage<\/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":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67395","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=67395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}