Biomedical service corps officers and judge advocate general competitive categories no longer will have to go before the reduction-in-force board in September due to sufficient voluntary separations, announced service officials Thursday. The board, slated to convene in mid-September, will consider roughly 9,000 captain and major line officers in the following year groups: captains, 2000 and 2003-05; and majors, 2000, according to a release. The board is expected to keep roughly 95 percent of these airmen. The service announced in April that it had removed chaplains and medical service corps officers from the board, which is one component of the services overall force-management initiative. “While this remains a challenging time for airmen still meeting the RIF board, the percentage [of involuntary separations] will be lower than previously projected,” said Col. Ken Sersun, chief of USAF’s military force policy division.
Aircraft readiness will suffer if Congress does not approve some $1.5 billion worth of spare parts the Air Force requested in its annual Unfunded Priorities List, sent to Capitol Hill last week, Chief of Staff Gen. David W. Allvin said.