Anyone have any tipper on the FY 17 T/C board results as far as F-35 conversion goes? I would have thought the MARADMIN would have been out by now.
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F-35 Conversion Board 2017
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I'd have to be pretty junior to think joining a community consisting entirely of majors is a good idea. At least now they'll have some cat ones to shit on.
Rumor has it the majority of selectees were Prowler dudes and only one Hornet guy was picked. That'll be interesting...
Ready Room talk said it's because O-3 Hornet Manning is currently at 46%.
Ready Room talk said it's because O-3 Hornet Manning is currently at 46%.
Yeah, that's what I heard too.
Prowler pilot manning isn't any better. But what do you expect when you only train enough guys to take you to sundown, then let them transition out before then?
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The MARADMIN isn't out yet but I saw the list and it was 1x Hornet guy, 3x Harrier, and 5x Prowler selected as primaries. Bizarre. If anyone wants the list shoot me a PM no idea when the MARADMIN will actually be released.
One wonders what the threshold is where big USMC/ DoD tries to fix the problems that are causing folks to leave. 35%? 15%? Watch the last one walk out the door, call him a fucking quitter, then walk to the white board and start brain storming how to retain pilots?
But watch DCA still get an MSM for a successful tour.
It's Probably going to need to drop to 15% for squadrons to have any chance at getting their pilots NATOPS minimum flight hours for currency before long...
It's replacing all Harriers and F-18s. I think the date for F-18s to be phased out is 2030.
I know there was a Marine Corps times article about bonuses for TACAIR in the future. I doubt any bonus would be close to what the Air Force would offer. I remember seeing a lot of comments that the "number" needed to be around or north of a 70k/year bonus to be effective. I used to think that 70k was way high but the more I think about it that's probably closer to reality than 10-20k. The problem isn't a pay problem, it's a QOL problem. A bonus is in effect a sign that the QOL problem won't be addressed and that they're willing to pay more people to embrace the suck than make meaningful change. I wonder what F-35 retention rates will look like compared to F-18.
I would accept a pay CUT and sign a 20 year contract if you told me I would fly 300 hours and participate in 2 or 3+ flag size LFEs a year, have no ground job beyond ODO and skeds O level of work, not move more than once or twice, and be <= an O-3.... i.e. how foreign air forces work.
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The USMC Aviation Plan is the place to find that (page 49), current phase out date for F/A-18's is 2029 for the last active duty squadron and 2030 for the last reserve squadron.
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Couldn't help but notice that the file name was misspelled, felt this was relevant:
http://www.duffelblog.com/2013/11/marine-corps-spelling-bee/