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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maintain its strength, the Air Force figures that it must retain 59 of every 100 pilots and 54 of every 100 navigators after twelve years of service. Today only 27 pilots and 40 navigators per 100 trained are still in uniform at the end of this period. The airlines are hiring 2,000 pilots a year, most of them right out of military cockpits. The Air Force estimates that a pilot with twelve years of experience has received pay, allowances and training worth roughly $4 million. "Trying to replace that experience is not only very expensive, but it takes time...
...Army guidelines call for retaining about 38 of every 100 soldiers with four years' service for at least six more years; only 30 of the 100 now stay in uniform that long. The shortfall is particularly serious among technicians, weapons specialists and drill sergeants. At Fort Benning, for example, much of today's training is done by drill corporals (and even acting drill corporals); these are recruits who have just completed their own basic training...
...rigorous training. The civilian nuclear industry just gobbles them up, along with other engineering types, as fast as we can manufacture them." Example: last year the Navy had 138 nuclear-qualified petty officers with ten to 13 years of service who were eligible for reenlistment; only 36 are in uniform today. The Navy is 35% short of its needs for pilots with the rank of lieutenant; by 1982 it expects to be 46% short...
...military, of course, enjoys indirect financial benefits: free medical care (though it is not always readily available and not always first-class); cut-rate prices for food and other items at commissaries and a pension that provides half-pay after 20 years in uniform and three-fourths of base pay after 30 years. But with galloping inflation, these fringes no longer offset low wages. Then, too, most civilian jobs also have attractive fringe benefits...
...such a measure are now before Congress. Army Chief of Staff Edward C. Meyer argues that such benefits should be transferable to the children of those now serving in the AVF. General Meyer believes this would induce many experienced NCOS and officers who were family men to stay in uniform...