Hundreds of Army aviation officers who were set to leave the military are being held to another three years of service after they say the branch quietly reinterpreted part of their contract amid retention and recruitment issues.
The shift has sparked an uproar among the more than 600 affected active-duty commissioned officers, including some who say their plans to start families, launch businesses and begin their civilian lives have been suddenly derailed.
“We are now completely in limbo,” said a captain who had scheduled his wedding around thinking he would be leaving the military this spring.
That captain and three other active-duty aviation officers who spoke to NBC News spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation.
“All-volunteer force”.
Nothing says “be all you can be” like locking the doors so nobody can leave.
Chilling. This must be illegal. If it’s not challenged they’ll bring back the draft ie slavery.
Shocking. Biden is my hero and master.
Which one, The Hunter of Pole Peelers or the Pants Shitter in Chief ?
Rather progressive don’t ya think ?
I’m sure this will help with the recruiting issues.
In the short term, it’ll help with the retention issue. Long term, it’ll probably cost a lot in recruitment and retention issues. But sometimes you have to deal with what is urgent, at the expense of what is important.
That’s going to be a highly motivated and effective group of pilots for the next 3 years.
I get a sense that in the near future there might be ohhhh, about 600 people flunking their periodic eye test.
Just a feeling, you know.
“Can you read this line?”
No.
“Let’s try the next line up.”
No
“How about this next line?”
No.
Look, I’m sorry, Major…
“I’m not a Major. I’m a Lieutenant.”
Oh. Sorry. I had trouble making out your insignia.
“You’re grounded, and if you can’t get your eyes fixed, you’ll be mustered out.”
Oh dear, oh dear! Not that. [wink, wink]
+1 Mischief often helps.
Mustered out? With the shortage of officers, more likely they will be assigned to be the civil affairs officer in some distant hardship station hell hole.
Um, no.
In the 80s the 82nd Airborne Division had what was colloquially known as the fat lawyer program. It seems a number of JAG officers decided that after they got the government to pay for law school, they could shirk the time in service that they’d agreed to by gaining so much weight that the Army would find them unfit to serve and discharge them. Instead, they got a strict diet, extra PT, and whatever level of supervised billeting was required to make sure they weren’t sneaking junk food until they were back down to am acceptable weight.
If you’re a pilot who passed your flight physical last year and you show up this year claiming some infirmity that prevents you from flying, you can bet the Army will find a way to get you to pass your physical.
If you want to know who owns you, look at who can dictate what should be your free life choices. The contracted period is ending, so they’re supposed to be able to chose. If the US were at war then this could be understandable (but would still be wrong).
For once, UnMe has a point.
Oh shit. My wife is a slave owner.
I thought DeMarcus was just her “special friend” ?
/kidding
“If the US were at war then this could be understandable…”
What if the US anticipates a war?
Democrats have always been the Party of Slavery.
And they regard the American Citizen as just that.
Funny they figure on pushing pilots around,could be a real bad idea in the long run..Oh right,Progressives see no consequences..
Is this part of Sleepy Joe’s puppet masters scheme?
No one will voluntarily sign up to an oath breaking,contract shredding agency..
But I am sure the Democrats have a whole bunch of “Chinese Americans” selected to fly in the defence of the USA.
A “recruiter” lied? that’s never happened before..
Also, the “root cause” crowd seems rather incurious about the root causes of the recruiting “crisis”…
It just occurred to me that it might be a bad idea to ever have any live missiles or bombs on those 600 pilots’ planes.
Did the DoD learn this tactic from the Russians?
What didn’t our supposed freedom loving leaders NOT learn from the Communists?
Mass surveillance?
Corrupt two tier justice system?
Confiscation of private property?
They are just as authoritarian and corrupt as the Communists.
So the forced injection which we now know has significant adverse side effects to a certain military age group has brought us to this precipice. The US Forces cannot entice enough warriors to volunteer so they targeted Shirleys and Karens to enhance their recruitment drives and now they still can’t fill the ranks with volunteers so it falls on the existing service personel to fill the gap and that can only be done by reneging on pre-existing service contracts. The Chinese must be rolling on the floor laughing their behinds off. How to conquer a nation without firing a single shot, scare the pants off the stupid, ignorant, and illiterate over a virus that was not much worse than the seasonal flu and was constructed in a bought and paid for foreign laboratory and then convince the aforementioned that if they didn’t get the ‘miracle’ injection they were going to die. The ultimate result is a country that cannot defend itself because the Armed Forces and the blue-collar army have been decimated by questionable leaders that are as smart and with it as a bag of hockey pucks at an outdoor hockey arena in Prince Albert in January. Lord, Give me the strength to bring these ‘leaders’ to the justice they so richly deserve.
so, basically Canada, who has been using socialist engineering of it’s armed forces in an attempt to get the “correct” result, which constantly attacking and belittling the groups most likely to volunteer for groups that have no history of doing the same.
at least they told numnuts Trudeau NO to trucker convoy.
Maybe the military was afraid they’d get beat up?
Maybe draft-dodger-in-chief Biden could suggest a workaround. He has some expertise in this area.
This speaks to Biden’s all-around poor management of everything.
Biden might not care about China but someone does and it will take every available body to keep it at bay.
They should identify as civilians.
Honestly, I don’t think the US could wage a war on the scale of Desert Storm anymore. Not enough men willing to fight.
I wonder why?
/sarc
Go read the Army Times article. These pilots signed a contract, were told by the Army’s equivalent of HR that they didn’t have to serve the entire time that they were contractually obligated to, and are now upset that they’re actually held to the contract. They agreed to an extra three years so that they’d get the training they wanted, and now that the Army held up it’s end of the deal by sending them to flight school, they want to act as if the extra 3 years they agreed to wasn’t part of the deal.
Thanks. This is a relief and changes everything. This should be appended to the post.
Heh …
If they were to refuse the so called “vaccine” just a year ago, they woudabeen home free noe.
For the idiot politicians, an asteroid would be easy way out.