Posted on Jul 10, 2015
Are Air Force personnel (military&civilian) safe from being downsized?
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Heard that the Army has to let go of 40,000 troops and the civilian personnel will be downsized as well in the next few years. They are looking at releasing 17,000 civilian personnel. I wanted to know from my fellow airmen and those who work for the AF, are Air Force personnel safe for now?
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No branches are safe from downsizing. Sgt (Join to see). The military size ebbs and flows with the events of the world... Check out the size of Army or Air Force thru the years. Downsizing is not a new event. The DOD is the largest part of the Federal Discretionary Budget, which means it is subject to budget cuts, when budget cuts are in order. That said, the USAF was downsizing when the Army was growing.
http://index.heritage.org/militarystrength/chapter/us-power/us-air-force/
http://index.heritage.org/militarystrength/chapter/us-power/us-air-force/
U.S. Air Force - 2015 Index of U.S. Military Strength
The U.S. Air Force provides military dominance in the air, space, and cyberspace domains that enables the Joint Force to quickly project power anywhere in the world at any time. The Air Force holds that it must be able to respond rapidly to contingencies and be the first force in the fight.
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The Air Force attempted to make all their personnel cuts in '13 and '14 Sgt (Join to see). And recently Deborah Lee James (Secretary of the Air Force) and General Mark Welsh (Chief of Staff AF) went on record saying that the Air Force had gotten, "too small" in the last round of personnel cuts.
So while we aren't on the chopping block again yet, and we hope not to be, we still keep one eye on the situation because as we all know: "unlikely is not the same thing as impossible" and it could easily happen again for the Air Force.
So while we aren't on the chopping block again yet, and we hope not to be, we still keep one eye on the situation because as we all know: "unlikely is not the same thing as impossible" and it could easily happen again for the Air Force.
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SrA Matthew Knight
Exactly, as of current they have not announced any cuts on AF personnel. I wouldn't be surprised to see them again in the future but the last I read the AF was actually looking for people separated in certain AFSCs to come back.
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MSgt Alan H
As price tags become larger with cost over runs and other countries that cancel or reduce orders for these insanely expensive pieces of hardware, I foresee more personnel cuts in the future of the Air Force to include reducing numbers, reducing benefits, reducing/eliminating older airframes. And there's also sequester........
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