Air Force massively expands re-up bonus list; some could get $90,000 to stay in

SrA Karla Kiser, what is more interesting is that they won't let well qualified people in.

Maybe they should hire a supply chain manager to better forecast on the shortfalls...looks like reaction leadership.

They are fighting hard because when certain AF leadership was told to shed a large amount of people over the next few years said certain AF leadership decided to shed them all in less than one. Then they realized 'oops, we cut way too many'. Hence the reason a number of people cut during the force reductions received letters offering them their jobs back.

While I do see a potential benefit in offering re-enlistment bonuses in certain career fields the Air Force as a whole has a lot of work to do to actually make it seem beneficial to stay in. That's why we are losing so many people, you take people and throw them around base to base burying them in additional duties and wearing them down so much they feel burnt out and decide they've had enough and leave. That's the position that many people I know at all ranks have hit and it's where I have hit myself. I and others have come to realize that we just can't keep wearing ourselves down more and more for 20 years. And where as re-enlistment bonuses will give some reasons to stay in it is far from a long term solution as I know there are others (myself included) that wouldn't even take the extra money to stay in.

We need to work on fixing the way things are ran. We need leadership who gives there people the motivation to actually enjoy what they do and want to stay in rather than leadership who recognize the problems we have and just keep passing it on down the ranks expecting the next generation to fix everything while they prepare for their cushy retirements because if that is what we have to look forward to, having to fix problems that have existed for years because everyone else has ignored them, then I know at least I want no part of it.