AF releases mid-year selective re-enlistment bonus list, changes

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WASHINGTON (AFNS) --  Air Force officials today released the fiscal year 2012 mid-year selective re-enlistment bonus list along with some changes to the program.

In addition to a rebalance in overall payments, the Air Force identified 53 Air Force specialties, down from 78, to receive bonuses.

Based on the semiannual program review that began in March, officials published the latest list, which includes Airmen in special operations, explosive ordnance disposal, tactical air control party, cryptological language analysts, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, to name a few.

Deleted bonuses will take effect August 18.

The Air Force also reduced overall payments across most career fields and enlistment zones, and eliminated bonuses for Zone E re-enlistees or those in the 18-20 year range.

While the Air Force remains at a 17-year high in overall retention, the bonus list is indicative of stressed or undermanned career fields within the Air Force.

"We are facing the realities of high retention in many areas of the force, and government-wide budget deficits," said Lt. Gen. Darrel D. Jones, deputy chief of staff for Manpower, Personnel, and Services at headquarters U.S. Air Force. "These are difficult decisions--we need to be good managers of the most valuable resource in the Air Force, and that's our dedicated Airmen. But we also need to be responsible stewards for the American taxpayer, and that means living within the budget."

General Jones said that is what these SRB changes reflect.

According to Lt. Col. Robert Romer, the acting force management division chief for the Air Force, the criteria used to determine to which career fields the Air Force would pay bonuses includes current and projected manning levels, career field retention and re-enlistment trends, career field force structure changes, and career field stress indicators.

Even though SRB multiples have decreased for many career fields that remain on the list, Colonel Romer said Airmen may still be able to get a bonus that approaches the $90,000 maximum allowed by law by reenlisting for a longer term.

"For our most critical Air Force specialty codes that have been offered bonuses with a multiple of seven that maxed out at $90,000 for a 4-year re-enlistment, we reset the multiple so the average re-enlistee could still reach the max bonus with a 6-year re-enlistment."

Airmen will have 30 days from today to re-enlist under the current bonus offerings.

Due to the continued budget trend, FY13 SRB multiples are projected to be consistent with the mid-year changes. The Air Force will release FY13 bonus offerings in October.

For more information, contact the re-enlistments office at 480-5898 or 06371-47-5898.

The following AFSC/zone decreases/removals will be effective Aug. 18, 2012.

AFSC/SRB CHANGES:

1A2X1      Zone B: 3.5    Zone C: 1.5
1A8X1      Zone B: 5.0    Zone C: 3.5
1A8X2      Zone B: 4.0    Zone C: 2.0
1C1X1     Zone A: 4.0    Zone B: 1.0
1C2X1     Zone B: 5.5    Zone C: 4.5
1C3X1     Zone A: 2.0    Zone C: 1.0
1C4X1     Zone B: 5.5    Zone C: 4.5
1C7X1     Zone A: 3.0
1N0X1     Zone B: 4.0    Zone C: 3.0
1N1X1A   Zone B: 5.5   Zone C: 4.0
1N1X1B   Zone C: 1.0
1N3X1     Zone B: 4.5    Zone C: 1.0
1N4X1A   Zone B: 2.5    Zone C: 2.5
1N4X1B   Zone B: 2.5   Zone C: 2.5
1T0X1      Zone B: 2.0    Zone C: 2.0
1T2X1      Zone B: 5.5    Zone C: 4.5
1U0X1      Zone B: 2.0   Zone C: 2.0
1W0X2     Zone B: 5.5   Zone C: 4.5
2A7X1      Zone A: 2.0
2A7X5      Zone A: 2.0    Zone B:2.0   Zone C: 2.0
2M0X1     Zone A: 1.0
2M0X3     Zone A: 1.0
2T3X7      Zone B: 1.0
2W2X1    Zone A: 1.0
3D0X2     Zone A: 1.0    Zone B: 1.0
3D0X4     Zone C: 1.0
3E2X1     Zone A: 1.0
3E3X1     Zone A: 3.0
3E4X1     Zone A: 1.0
3E8X1     Zone B: 5.5    Zone C: 4.5
3N0X1     Zone B: 2.5
3N0X2     Zone A: 3.0
3P0X1A   Zone A: 2.5    Zone B: 1.0
4C0X1     Zone C: 1.0
4E0X1     Zone B: 1.5
4H0X1     Zone C: 1.0
4N0X1C  Zone B: 1.0
4N1X1C  Zone C: 1.0
4P0X1     Zone B: 1.0
6C0X1     Zone A: 5.0   Zone B:  3.5
7S0X1     Zone B: 1.0


AFSC/ZONES REMOVED

1A1X1     Zone A   Zone B
1A4X1     Zone C
1A7X1     Zone A
1B4X1     Zone A
1C1X1     Zone C
1C3X1     Zone E
1C4X1     Zone E
1C5X1D  Zone B   Zone C
1C7X1     Zone B   Zone C
1N1X1B  Zone A   Zone B
1N2X1A   Zone C
1N2X1C  Zone A
1T0X1     Zone E
1W0X1    Zone B   Zone C
1W0X2    Zone E
2A3X4A   Zone C
2A3X4B   Zone C
2A5X1     Zone A   Zone B   Zone C
2A5X3C  Zone B
2A7X1     Zone C
2A7X2     Zone C
2A7X5     Zone E
2M0X1    Zone C
2R0X1    Zone A
2T2X1     Zone C
2T3X2C  Zone A
2T3X7     Zone C
2W2X1   Zone C   Zone E
3D0X3    Zone B
3D0X4    Zone B
3D1X7    Zone B
3E0X1     Zone A
3E6X1     Zone A   Zone B   Zone C
3E8X1     Zone E
3E9X1     Zone C
4B0X1     Zone A
4C0X1     Zone A   Zone B
4H0X1     Zone B
4N0X1B  Zone A
4N0X1C  Zone A
4N1X1B  Zone A   Zone B
4N1X1C Zone B
4P0X1    Zone A
4R0X1    Zone A
4R0X1A  Zone A
4R0X1B  Zone A
4R0X1C  Zone A
4Y0X1H  Zone C
4Y0X2     Zone A   Zone B
6C0X1    Zone C   Zone E
6F0X1    Zone A
7S0X1    Zone C
9L0X0    Zone A    Zone B   Zone C
9S1X0   Zone A    Zone B