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Air Force Pay Cuts Looming Next Month for Airmen in the Service's Toughest Jobs
Military.com ^ | 6 September 2022 | Thomas Novelly

Posted on 09/06/2022 7:11:14 PM PDT by 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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(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...


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To: NautiNurse

Actually there is a definition in the excerpt above...

“were an extra incentive “to compensate enlisted service members who serve in duties which are extremely difficult,””

So what duties are “extremely difficult” if not wartime? And do they still have those same duties? Is the difficulty the same?


21 posted on 09/06/2022 7:40:00 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: NautiNurse
When I read the article, it did not appear to describe wartime bonuses.

You are correct. These are AF career fields that are hard to fill or retain.

22 posted on 09/06/2022 7:40:27 PM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: DannyTN

The second paragraph of the article describes “Special Duty.” If reading is a problem, there is an app in the article allowing you to listen to it.


23 posted on 09/06/2022 7:41:47 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Ron DeSantis is Top Gov)
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To: fidelis

Thank you.


24 posted on 09/06/2022 7:46:41 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Ron DeSantis is Top Gov)
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To: NautiNurse

It gets worse...

Inflation Catches the Pentagon Flat-Footed
By using rosy assumptions about prices, officials have ended up hurting both readiness and troops.

...Since January 2021, service members will have received a 3% raise (2021), a 2.7% raise (2022), and a 4.6% raise (2023 projected)—but none of these will let them clear inflation. Uniformed personnel are facing a real pay cut of 12.5% by our estimate.
The Pentagon did all this over the protestations of Congress. Knowing the Defense Department was misjudging inflation, all four defense committees on Capitol Hill were left to estimate their own inflation numbers. When Congress asked how it could help the military cope with inflation, Pentagon leaders said no financial help was needed.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/inflation-catches-the-pentagon-flat-footed-army-paychecks-food-stamps-defense-department-budget-ppi-troops-11662405897


25 posted on 09/06/2022 7:48:22 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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To: DannyTN

When I was in the USN, I got extra pay each month for working on the Flight Deck. It wasn’t much, but when your base salary is about $4500 a year, you take what you can get.


26 posted on 09/06/2022 7:53:23 PM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Good find. Thanks for sharing the link.


27 posted on 09/06/2022 8:06:05 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Ron DeSantis is Top Gov)
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To: NautiNurse

Yea, thank you for your service and screw you is what they really mean.


28 posted on 09/06/2022 8:25:47 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: NautiNurse
WTF? Biden is pushing a 4.6% pay increase for Washington do nothing weebees but he is cutting the pay of skilled military personnel
29 posted on 09/06/2022 8:43:37 PM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: NautiNurse

hazardous duty pay next???


30 posted on 09/06/2022 8:54:35 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: JoSixChip

We could call them airheads instead.


31 posted on 09/06/2022 8:56:18 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: NautiNurse
There are currently 43 active-duty four-star officers in the uniformed services of the United States: 16 in the Army, 3 in the Marine Corps, 9 in the Navy, 10 in the Air Force, 2 in the Space Force, 2 in the Coast Guard and 1 in the Public Health Service (source-numbers probably changing frequently.)

This seems a fairly accurate picture of the cause for a top heavy armed forces being spun in all sorts of hapless directions. Too many general/flag officers not enough effective, focused leadership...

32 posted on 09/06/2022 9:17:12 PM PDT by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. - Mencken)
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To: NautiNurse
Outrageous!

The Military deserve the very best of everything!

33 posted on 09/06/2022 9:20:45 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: NautiNurse

Especially now, with inflation at 40 year highs, this is disgustingly bad.


34 posted on 09/06/2022 9:28:21 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: NautiNurse

Hey, gotta pay for all the benefits for Dumbo’s illegal criminal invaders—to heck with the military who defend our nation (if they can squeeze in time to do so between CRT lectures, transgender propaganda lectures, sex change surgery and ballet lessons insisted upon by Milley Vanilli and the jerk Austen).


35 posted on 09/06/2022 9:52:11 PM PDT by EinNYC
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Sounds like an AF budgeting problem, not a “need more freshly printed money from Congress” problem: “Air Force Headquarters held a meeting this past November to address the problem prior to crafting the 2023 budget, Falls told Military.com.”

Perhaps fewer AF equipment shipments (i.e. “Ghost drones” & “Switchblade drones”) to Ukraine might help.

Other DoD branches not having the same budget problem?


36 posted on 09/06/2022 10:09:47 PM PDT by Drago
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To: DIRTYSECRET; NautiNurse; DannyTN; laplata
I was a ‘plumber’. Turd chaser.

I was an air traffic control supervisor, in from 67 to 87. For several years, we got pro pay ($75 a month) There were VERY FEW career fields that got anything extra. In 1975, they took it away from us, so we got paid the same as the guy passing out basketballs at the gym, and more people knew him, than knew me. In exchange for that, they gave us ATC badges to wear. We were less than impressed. In actuality, it was a coincidence, but the troops perceived it differently, and the perception is more important than the reality. We never got it back.
I didn’t even know other people were getting extra cash, so this has happened before. It’s not new. This was why I told my son, not to go in as an enlisted man. There are too many inequities. He took my advice and is a commissioned officer, and a USAF pilot.
I wouldn’t recommend anyone being enlisted today, but it’s mostly due to wokeness.

37 posted on 09/06/2022 11:21:12 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: JoSixChip

no, It’s skypeoples.


38 posted on 09/06/2022 11:31:33 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (Buy JHP ammo, Level 3/4 armor and rifles. Won’t be able to for much longer, and we’re gonna need em)
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To: Qwapisking; DannyTN; laplata
So....who will fly those f15’s that fjb says will overpower MAGA folks with mere ar15’s? Inquiring minds want to know.

These are all enlisted people. No enlisted people will ever fly F-15s, only officers. Now, there was, and maybe to a certain point, still is, a pilot shortage, so they let a few enlisted people go to pilot training. My son went to pilot training with a few Tech’s, Master’s and Senior’s. I think the enlisted pilots, were only going to “fly” the MQ-4 Global Hawk. I think they could actually fly the aircraft, if need be, but I think the aircraft is programmed to fly a certain route, and all the enlisted pilots do, is monitor it. My son says, as far as he knows, the enlisted pilots are being phased out, and are being replaced with officers.

39 posted on 09/06/2022 11:45:45 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: rdcbn1
WTF? Biden is pushing a 4.6% pay increase for Washington do nothing weebees but he is cutting the pay of skilled military personnel

That’s exactly what they are doing. It causes lots of hate and discontent among the troops.

40 posted on 09/06/2022 11:53:16 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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