New Air Force bargain for reservists: 15-day, all expenses paid trip to Iraq

[ProSense]

Air Force Reserve Command offers 15-day Iraq tours

Staff reports

Air Force Reserve Command originally hoped to make it easier to find volunteers for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan by offering 40-day tours.

It’s done even better: 15 day tours.

The shorter tours are available to reservists and air guardsmen as long as their units commit to a minimum of 60-day tours, according to Maj. Gen. Quentin Peterson, director operations for Air Mobility Command.

“This policy provides the with the necessary flexibility to schedule individual guardsmen and reservists in accordance with their annual commitments, yet gives the warfighter the continuity necessary to prosecute his operational responsibilities,” Peterson said Nov. 27 in an e-mail to Air Force Times.

With a growing number of reservists nearing, if not meeting, the end of the two-year commitment they can be called on to serve, the Air Force will have to rely more frequently on volunteers to meet its missions in OEF and OIF.

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[HCE SuiGeneris]

1. Does anyone else make the connection?

More Air Force recruitment pressure. Why? To bomb the shit out of Iran... that is why. Big problem here!

[Nickster]

2. Ooopss, did we say your tour was only 15 days? That must have been a typo

we actually meant 15 months.