AF High Year Tenure Policy
 

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MILPDS MESSAGE NUMBER : 09-069

REFERENCES: NEW FY10 AIR FORCE HIGH YEAR TENURE POLICIES

1. Please disseminate to Airmen at all levels. As result of Senate proposed
force reductions and budget cuts, the Department of the Air Force has
developed a program to reduce its number of personnel. This program is under
test phase and will take affect 1 March 2010 (FY10). Under this new
program, older Airmen will be asked to go on early retirement, thus
permitting the retention of the younger Airmen who will represent the
future. Therefore, program will phase out older Airmen by the end of the
current fiscal year. This initial phase of the program will be known as
S.L.A.P. (SNCO/NCO/AMN Late-Aged Program).

2. Airmen who are S.L.A.P.'d will be given the opportunity to look for jobs
outside the Air Force. S.L.A.P.'d Airmen can request a review of their
personnel records before actual retirement takes place. This phase of the
program is called S.C.R.E.W. (Survey of Capabilities of Retired Early
Workers). All Airmen who have been S.L.A.P.'d or S.C.R.E.W.'d may file an
appeal with their chain of command with final authority at the AFPC
Functional level. This is called S.H.A.F.T. (Study by Higher Authority
Following Termination).

3. Under the terms of the new policy, a Airman may be S.L.A.P.'d once,
S.C.R.E.W.'d twice, but may be S.H.A.F.T.'d as many times as the Air Force
deems appropriate.

4. If an Airman follows the above procedures, he/she will be entitled to get
H.E.R.P.E.S. (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel's Early Severance) or
C.L.A.P. (Combined Lump-sum Assistance Payment) unless he/she already has
A.I.D.S. (Additional Income from Dependents or Spouse).

5. As H.E.R.P.E.S. and C.L.A.P. are considered benefit plans, any Airman who
has received H.E.R.P.E.S. or C.L.A.P. will no longer be S.L.A.P.'d or
S.C.R.E.W.'d by the Air Force.

6. The Air Force wishes to assure the younger Airmen who remain that the Air
Force will continue its policy of training through our Special High
Intensity Training (S.H.I.T.). This Air Force takes pride in the amount of
S.H.I.T. our Airmen receive. We have given our Airmen more S.H.I.T. than any
other service. If any Airmen feels they do not
receive enough S.H.I.T. or can handle taking more S.H.I.T. at their current
assignment, please have them contact their immediate supervisor.

7. Remember that first line supervisors are best qualified to gauge the
amount of extra S.H.I.T. that their Airmen need or can handle. If
supervisors determine that their Airman cannot handle the amount of S.H.I.T.
they are given, they may eligible to get S.L.A.P.'d regardless of time in
service, but still with the possibility of getting H.E.R.P.E.S., C.L.A.P. or
A.I.D.S.

U.S. AIR FORCE, ABOVE ALL!

Ah...re-TACumsizing the AF IAW 2010's standards...shades of morale busting Tony McPeak. :p :D :D

Richard

What is really sad is that although the message above is a joke, it is a paradie of the actual one that came out 3 weeks ago. ALOT of folks are having to get out MUCH sooner than what they normally would have to do.

During my 19 USAF years, I saw three RIF boards come and go. I do not know how often the other services hold these boards, if at all. Most of the time the RIF's were to adjust the rank structure heavy in 0-3's. The RIF's were generally AFSC sensitive; but not always.

I do think the parody, and acronyms accurately reflect the real world if ya happen to wind up in the RIFted pile.

RF 1

RF1, that sounds exactly like the corporate world and how older workers have been targeted in the RIFs...especially at large companies that self-insure their medical plans.

The question is, in a voluntary service organization where folks put in years protecting our country, should they be subject to the same push out the door that older corporate workers are getting? :(

Ok, it's getting depressing in here, back to the comedy! ;)

This newest high year tenure issue is directed only at enlisted personnel. Col's can still stay in for as long as they please.

Afchic you know if they would just let the lower leadership get rid of the dead weight, oxygen stealing, incompetent NCO's and junionr officers wondering around bumping into walls there probably wouldn't be a need to actually rift anyone. I had a folder thicker than my thumb on a SNCO who was not only incompetent but lazy and just plain thick as well, he had 20 years in and all I wanted to do was not let him re-enlist, but what did leadership (O-6) do, a trophy for everyone:mad:, you can't make someone retire, how dare you. :eek:

Afchic I respect you, and you're fighting a good fight but in a losing battle, the AF is retarded and I see no hope for a change in their future. I fear in the not to distant future we will lose air superiority due to the leadership failures in the USAF, case in point KC-X.

AIM HIGH! (make'm duck)

RF1,

How true it is and does reflect the real world!!!!!!!! :(

Big Teddy :munchin