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For those of us who are currently in GME or beyond: what are you guys hearing these days about future billet/manning levels?
For Navy I have heard from reliable sources to expect about a 30% reduction in billets over the next five years for my specialty. From other specialties I have heard about the numbers have ranged from 30-40+% cuts. These are apparently coming from a medical manning program.
Are the Army and Air Force folks hearing a similar story?
Granted things ebb and flow but this is a pretty quick and drastic change to manning levels of it is actually implemented over 5 years. That's 2-3 active duty billets a year for the smaller specialties and maybe 8-10 for the larger ones. It was put in a way that made it seem the billets would essentially be converted to civilian positions, so the total manning would be similar, just a much smaller AD population.
Interested to hear what y'all are hearing. Can't imagine this will help retention given the additional impact of abysmal in zone promotion rates to O5 and O6 as of late.
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For Navy I have heard from reliable sources to expect about a 30% reduction in billets over the next five years for my specialty. From other specialties I have heard about the numbers have ranged from 30-40+% cuts. These are apparently coming from a medical manning program.
Are the Army and Air Force folks hearing a similar story?
Granted things ebb and flow but this is a pretty quick and drastic change to manning levels of it is actually implemented over 5 years. That's 2-3 active duty billets a year for the smaller specialties and maybe 8-10 for the larger ones. It was put in a way that made it seem the billets would essentially be converted to civilian positions, so the total manning would be similar, just a much smaller AD population.
Interested to hear what y'all are hearing. Can't imagine this will help retention given the additional impact of abysmal in zone promotion rates to O5 and O6 as of late.
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