Flight engineers, loadmasters, and sensor operators are among the 3,700 Airmen who will stop receiving special duty assignment pay over the next year, Air & Space Forces Magazine has confirmed. All told, 33 Air Force specialties will no longer qualify for SDAP starting in fiscal 2024. ...
Starting June 1, enlisted Airmen will be able to swap assignments—with restrictions. The Air Force announced its new enlisted assignment swap program May 25, eight months after Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne S. Bass first delighted the crowd at AFA’s Air, Space & ...
The Air Force is shutting down the personnel services website myPers as part of an ongoing effort to modernize the branch’s digital human resources platforms. The website will no longer be accessible to Airmen and Guardians starting April 30, and the old features used in ...
Housing allowances are finally catching up, as the Pentagon announced new Basic Allowance for Housing rates Dec. 14. On average, monthly payments will rise 12.1 percent starting Jan. 1. Increases vary by location. BAH is determined based on paygrade, location, and whether or not members have ...
The Basic Allowance for Subsistence will rise 11.2 percent effective January 1, ringing in the new year with big increases for ever service member. The new enlisted rate is $452.56 per month, while the rate for officers reaches $311.68. That's the biggest year-over-year increase since ...
The Air Force will hit its Active-duty recruiting goals for fiscal 2022, which ends Sept. 30, but the Guard and Reserve will fall short by about 1,500 recruits each, or about 2.1 percent for the Air Force Reserve. Air Force Reserve Command boss Lt. Gen. ...
The Air Force replaced the Airman Comprehensive Assessment with a new Airman Leadership Qualities feedback form, which Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr has said will change how the service measures, motivates, and rewards service members. The move is the latest by USAF ...
Striking a balance between mission requirements and Airmen’s preferences is one of the biggest challenges for the Air Force’s talent management, the service’s personnel boss told Congress on Feb. 8. And one of the trickiest aspects to that balance involves the moves that so often ...
The Pentagon on March 31 reversed its policy on transgender troops, formally opening the door to service for those who meet military standards. “The Secretary of Defense strongly believes that the all-volunteer force thrives when it is composed of diverse Americans who can meet the ...
The commander of 19th Air Force will be hitting the road in the coming months, explaining to nearly every USAF flying unit how pilot training is changing, and why they should accept it, Maj. Gen. Craig D. Wills told reporters March 23. The new systems ...
Aircrew flight equipment Airmen face deep problems maintaining proficiency, largely stemming from inadequate training and high operations tempo, and the Air Force should respond by expanding the number of personnel and overhauling the career field’s progression, according to a new report. Air Combat Command tasked ...
The Department of the Air Force has given USAF and Space Force commanders and senior enlisted leaders a toolkit to help equip them to carry out Defense Department-directed stand downs to address extremism within their ranks, department spokesperson Lt. Col. Malinda Singleton confirmed to Air ...