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Force shaping board details announced

Posted 2/7/2011 Email story   Print story

    


by Daniel P. Elkins
Air Force Personnel, Services and Manpower Public Affairs


2/7/2011 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) -- Officials are convening the 2011 Force Shaping Board May 9 at the Air Force Personnel Center here to consider officers for retention as part of the service's force management efforts to meet its end strength.

This board is one of a variety of voluntary and involuntary measures being taken by service officials as part of a tailored, multi-year Force Management Program. Air Force leaders recently announced programs aimed at managing the force at various phase points along a career.

The board will evaluate officers serving on the active duty list in the grade of first lieutenant and captain in the following competitive categories and year groups: biomedical sciences corps, 2008; medical service corps, 2006 through 2008; and line of the Air Force-judge advocate general, 2006 through 2008. Officers are ineligible if they have an approved date of separation before the mandatory Oct. 1, separation date or have entered active duty after May 9, 2009.

Additionally, officers with six or more years of total federal commissioned service by the mandatory separation date or who have 15 or more years of total active service as of the board convening date are also ineligible under the FSB.

Retention recommendation forms must be completed for all board-eligible officers with less than 15 years total active federal service as of May 9. The RRF must be forwarded to AFPC no later than April 8.

Officials said the objective of the board is to manage the force by retaining officers the Air Force needs to develop as its future leaders. The board will make its determination based on information similarly considered by a promotion board, to include an officer selection brief, performance reports, training reports and decorations. The board will also consider the officer's retention recommendation form and any letters submitted by eligible officers to provide additional information relevant to the board's decision process that is not included in any other documents.

Voluntary force management programs are still in place for interested officers with the following separation options that include time-in-grade waivers, limited active-duty service commitment waivers, Palace Chase, Blue-to-Green and officer cross-flow programs.

For more information on these programs or the force shaping board, visit the Air Force Personnel Services website and select the 2011 Force Management link or call the Total Force Service Center at 800-525-0102.



tabComments
3/4/2011 4:20:58 PM ET
If you survive one RIF you should be exempt from the next. This is frustrating, contradictory and confusing. I'm in a supposedly undermanned career field but that's not a factor.
RIF, Deployed
 
2/9/2011 11:39:07 PM ET
PILOTS in charge of the AIR Force? Wow...that concept is so huge I can barely wrap an unecessary reflective belt around it. Joe at Offut has it correct.
YGBSM, Osan AB ROK
 
2/9/2011 8:24:07 AM ET
The Air Force is still ran by the Pilot Mafia.
Danny, RAFL
 
2/8/2011 3:41:46 PM ET
I know pilots that were RIFed last time around....there goes that theory Non-TRated.
M, CA
 
2/8/2011 12:02:33 PM ET
MAYBE just maybe it's because Pilots don't have retention problems because they consistently have job opportunities in the public sector. They offer Aviation Continuation Pay ACP because they actually have to entice them to stay. This is how retention works not some Govt. conspiracy to love Pilots more. By the way I'm not a Pilot but its not hard to understand before spreading nasty innuendo on the official AF Page.
Joe Rated-O, Offutt AFB
 
2/8/2011 10:56:00 AM ET
I love how the comm now cyber career field is always overmanned. Meanwhile we are constantly deployed and under constant demand to do more with less. Just because we are a large career field doesn't mean we have too many. The AF has targeted this career field every time. I wonder if it will ever end.
Concerned Cyber, Deployed
 
2/7/2011 7:46:38 PM ET
Isn't it odd that the Pilot career field is never overmanned...only the non-rated folks. CP
Retired Non-TRated Ops, Colo Springs CO
 
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