Quote Originally Posted by Jayhawker View Post
The AF recently cut 6000 manpower billets in order to fund new jets, but had to spend the money on current ops instead so it got us nowhere. .
PBD 720 may have required an overall AF personnel reduction, but the AF base where I work as a contractor is growing in its government civilian manpower. It also has more GS13-15's than I can imagine are needed (or would be found in a comparable Army activity). I won't even try to count the O-5's and 0-6's that floodd the organization (and this is not a mjaor headquarters. And as far as warm body counts go, how can the AF cry poor mouth when it is in the middle of establishing AFCYBER as a new AF MAJCOM?

AF deployments to SWA are for 6 month not 15 months and are largely done on an individual replacement basis. I wonder how much O&M money could be saved if the deployment technigues were changed.