Retrain or separate, 1,500 airmen told

[unhappycamper]

Retraining requests due by Dec. 17.


Retrain or separate, 1,500 airmen told
Staff report
Posted : Thursday Dec 6, 2007 5:57:57 EST

More than 1,500 enlisted airmen are targeted for involuntary retraining in 2008, the Air Force announced Wednesday.

The move to require airmen to retrain into undermanned career fields comes after the service sought volunteers in June to change jobs. About 70 career fields are short of airmen.

If an airman does not agree to retraining, he will be told to leave the service on his current date of separation.

Airmen singled out must submit a retraining request by Dec. 17. After meeting the Dec. 17 deadline, airmen must choose an Air Force Specialty Code from a list of available career fields and submit a completed retraining application by Jan. 31.

“Airmen selected for retraining who have the necessary retainability cannot decline retraining,” Chief Master Sgt. Christine Williams, chief of the Air Force Personnel Center enlisted skills management branch, said in an Air Force statement. “All airmen identified as being retraining eligible must retrain or face separation under guidelines established for the retraining program.”


Rest of article at: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/12/airforce_enlisted_retraining_071205w/

[saigon68]

1. Retrained into "convoy security"

Yes a few more "security specialists" to ride shotgun on Convoys of fuel from kuwait to baghdad

sounds like fun to me </sarcasm>