‘Crippling’ manning crisis for enlisted aviators prompts Air Force to expand retraining

[rangerrebew]

‘Crippling’ manning crisis for enlisted aviators prompts Air Force to expand retraining

By: Stephen Losey  

The Air Force is expanding the ranks of airmen who can retrain into career enlisted aviator jobs in an effort to close severe manning shortfalls in some of those career fields.

Maj. Gen. Robert LaBrutta, the Air Force’s director of military force management policy, said in an April 22 memo that certain airframes and specialties in career enlisted aviator jobs are nearing 65 percent manning. Air Force officials have in the past said that they start to get nervous when manning drops below 90 percent in a career field.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/04/26/crippling-manning-crisis-for-enlisted-aviators-prompts-air-force-to-expand-retraining/

[Sanguine]

"manning" shortfalls?  I've never heard that term before.

[thackney]

"manning" shortfalls?  I've never heard that term before.

It is not a new term.

Compensation and Enlisted
Manning Shortfalls
https://www.cna.org/CNA_files/PDF/D0001998.A2.pdf
September 2000

[Sanguine]

It is not a new term.

Compensation and Enlisted
Manning Shortfalls
https://www.cna.org/CNA_files/PDF/D0001998.A2.pdf
September 2000

OK....and?

[rangerrebew]

OK....and?

There are manning shortfalls.