{"id":68617,"date":"2016-10-26T08:42:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68617"},"modified":"2016-10-26T08:42:41","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:42:41","slug":"drone-pilots-offered-175000-bonuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68617","title":{"rendered":"Drone pilots offered $175,000 bonuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=55526\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-55526\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/drone-operator-500x280.png\" alt=\"drone-operator\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-55526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/drone-operator-500x280.png 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/drone-operator-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/drone-operator.png 1368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bobo sends us a link to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/articles\/air-force-offers-bonuses-up-to-175-000-for-drone-pilots\">Air Force Times<\/a> that reports drone pilots are being offered up to $175,000 bonuses for a five year commitment to the job;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The critical skills retention bonus provides some RPA pilots $35,000 per year &#8212; for a total of $175,000 &#8212; if they agree to a five-year active-duty service commitment, or $35,000 for an additional year of commitment if they&#8217;re already receiving a similar CSRB or aviation retention pay bonus. The Air Force said in a Friday release that the bonuses are now officially authorized, and airmen can search for information on eligibility and application processes on the myPers website.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible, drone pilots must be in the 18S special operations RPA pilot, 11U pilots who started on manned aircraft and permanently transitioned to RPAs, 11X pilot, 12U RPA combat systems officers, or 13U RPA air battle manager career fields, and their undergraduate RPA or flying training commitments must be expiring in fiscal 2016 or 2017. The Air Force said the program will be retroactive for airmen whose commitment expired in 2016, and that applications for them must be submitted to the Air Force Personnel Center by Jan. 31, 2017.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, ten years from now the Pentagon will want their money back, if history teaches us anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to the Air Force Times that reports drone pilots are being &hellip; <a title=\"Drone pilots offered $175,000 bonuses\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68617\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drone pilots offered $175,000 bonuses<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68617","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=68617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}