Air Force Pay Cuts Looming Next Month for Airmen in the Service's Toughest Jobs

Military.com ^ | 6 September 2022 | Thomas Novelly

[NautiNurse]

Enlisted airmen who work in some of the Air Force's most difficult jobs will receive from $900 to $5,400 less annually beginning next month as the service faces financial challenges that affect the ranks.

Hundreds of service members will see cuts to their Special Duty Assignment Pay, known as SDAP, in fiscal 2023 -- which starts Oct. 1. Those monthly payments, ranging from $75 to $450, were an extra incentive "to compensate enlisted service members who serve in duties which are extremely difficult," according to budget documents.

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To avoid the cuts, lawmakers would have to reinstate the Special Duty Assignment Pay difference in the 2023 budget proposal before it's approved by Congress...

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Air Force Recruiters are set to lose their $75 in special duty pay each month for fiscal 2023, which would add up to nearly $900 a year in lost wages.

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[NautiNurse]

Pay cuts to our military while FJB buys votes with tuition loan gifts to college grads making $125K. Surely, we need to grift $$$ Billions more into that deep slush fund named Ukraine. We haven't anywhere else to disappear our tax dollars. Contact your Congress Critters.

Here's a list of all the Air Force's special duty pay that would be reduced in fiscal 2023, according to budget documents:

Recruiters
Basic Military Training instructors
Human Intelligence debriefers
Combat Controllers
Pararescue operators
Command chief master sergeants
First sergeants
Defense Attaché Office (DAO) liaisons
Nuclear Enterprise airmen
Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) agents
Air Traffic Control (ATC) supervisors
Postal and National Defense Advisory Commission (NDAC) enablers
Tactical Air Command and Control Party (TACP) operators
Enlisted pilots and weapons directors
Parachute instructors and those with test parachute program
Flight attendants
Mission system specialists
Load masters
USAF Honor Guards
Special Reconnaissance operators
Phoenix Raven Security Forces defenders
Forward Area Refueling Point enablers
Flying crew chiefs
Defense couriers
Airmen who support various commands
Enlisted airmen who work with special government agencies
Public affairs airmen assigned to recruiting squadrons
Air transportation airmen
Airmen assigned to special classified Air Force projects.

[DIRTYSECRET]

I was a ‘plumber’. Turd chaser.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Plus the armed forces aren’t are falling short of their recruitment goals and the woke BS has told all white people “you are not wanted.” 90% of air force pilots are white males.

The Biden give-away to deadbeat students getting worthless “studies” and “intersectionality” and “critical this and that” degrees will cost us $1 trillion when it is all done.

[NautiNurse]

Thank you for your service.

[Yashcheritsiy]

Hey, this is gonna help the recruiting shortfall.

[butlerweave]

Have to pay for Biden’s $470 billion Green Scam some how

[laplata]

This is sickening.

[JoSixChip]

Are they still allowed to say Airmen?

[SaveFerris]

Give more money to Ukraine and student loans!!!

[adorno]

Well, the money for all the student loans payments has to come from somewhere.

FACT is that, with democrats, they’d rather sacrifice our national defense for social programs and to win voted. They’ve done it often in the past.

[NorthMountain]

Hey! I have a BRILLIANT idea!

Cut all welfare benefits to illegal aliens, and use the money for the troops!

[NautiNurse]

Cut all welfare benefits to illegal aliens, and use the money for the troops!

This is why we are called radical extremists.

[Qwapisking]

So....who will fly those f15’s that fjb says will overpower MAGA folks with mere ar15’s? Inquiring minds want to know.

[DannyTN]

Are they still on “Special Duty”?

It sounds like they are losing a wartime bonus as opposed to a cut in their base salary.

I don’t know what they get paid, and it’s probably too low, but we shouldn’t continue a wartime bonus if we are not at war. We should instead increase the base if it’s not at an appropriate level.

[NorthMountain]

I’ll wear that badge with pride!

[RoseofTexas]

And don’t forget the big bonus Ukraine is about to get! 40 billion I believe? I hate this administration with every been in my body!

[Rowdyone]

Yeh, that will increase retention and recruitment rates. Didn’t see many Officer types on that list. How about cutting Pentagon staff for a change?

[NautiNurse]

When I read the article, it did not appear to describe wartime bonuses.

[DannyTN]

what does “Special Duty” mean?

[gundog]

I recently found out there was a dead space behind the medicine chests in the AF dorms I lived in. (Homestead) I’m assuming that was so plumbers could access the pipes. It would have been a squeeze getting someone in there, though.