///AMG
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The airlines should really realize that partnering with the military who is also desperate to spark interest is a good long term solution to both our manpower issues on maintaining a pool of professional aviators. The coast guard literally uses that as it’s model for training. Go start somewhere else, 6-8 years later come to the coast guard. It’s called the DCA program and it’s literally 3/4 of their aviator pool.
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If only our leaders could think that far outside the box, or I should say, outside their immediate rice bowl. Adjust maximum ages for aviation service entry. Adjust the ability to flow in and out of the active component. The airlines already have the groundwork configured via USERRA. I've known guys who left regional 121 life to come fly grey jets, and of course many more who went from grey jets to major 121. But if there were a way to just embrace the full continuum, and keep more qualified guys available for crunch time in the AC, albeit being incentivized with what we already dump as free money into guys who aren't really the folks who will or should always stick around. They need a lot more hiring and rehiring flexibility, especially when you get to the field grade ranks where certain quals are sometimes hard to keep in the service. Specifically, I mean let a guy/gal go without hassle at 10 YOS. But be willing to throw that whole $300-400k bonus (whatever the stat limit is currently) that they didn't take back at them if they want to come back for a hard sell tour that is undermanned. Don't put them on the hook for anything past that need. Need a department head for workups and deployment? Here's $250k, on top of normal salary/benefits to come do it. It is the only way we could ever be competitive with the draw from the airlines. But of course, all our admiralty and generalty are simply biding their time, waiting for an economic disaster that will stem the outflow. That is a lot of mumbo jumbo nonsense sentences, but maybe you can pick up what I'm laying down.