852 AF lieutenants vulnerable to cuts

[unhappycamper]

852 AF lieutenants vulnerable to cuts
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Tuesday, December 18, 2007

ARLINGTON, Va. — Instead of glad tidings, December brought uncertainty to 852 Air Force lieutenants who received notification letters telling them they’re vulnerable to involuntary separation by Aug. 31.

From that group, commissioned in 2005, 124 lieutenants will be selected for separation by a board that will meet beginning March 30 at the Air Force’s Personnel Center at Randolph Air Force Base, Texas.

The results of the separation board will be announced “around the end of May or early June,” according to Lt. Col. Scott Arcuri, the Air Force’s chief of retirements and separations.

The cuts are coming in the third year of the service’s four-year “force shaping” program to reduce officer and enlisted personnel to pay for modernizing its aging fleet of aircraft.

For officers with fewer than five years’ experience, the yearly chops are simply the way the service does business, Arcuri said.


Rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=51070



uhc comment: With the F-22 Raptor costing $330,000,000 a pop and the F-35 costing $233,000,000 a pop, the Air Force is going to need to lay off more than 124 lieutenants.

[Eagle_Eye]

1. Vulnerable to cuts? What kind of cuts? Paper cuts?

ARMY Lieutenant:
"It's cold - this is terrible!"

MARINE Lieutenant:
"It's wet - this is terrible!"

NAVY SEAL Lieutenant:
"It's cold and wet - this the GREAT!"

Air Force Lieutenant:
"Hello barracks service desk - my cable TV is out."
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