Pilots can get $25,000 extra a year to stay in

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Pilot bonuses announced
Amounts unveiled 4 months late and are the same...


Pilots can get $25,000 extra a year to stay in
By Bruce Rolfsen - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Feb 1, 2008 20:19:14 EST

If $25,000 bonuses and five-year limits were good enough to keep active-duty pilots in the Air Force during 2007, the service believes more of the same will be enough to keep fliers in uniform during 2008.

Four months into the fiscal year, the service has announced that aviator continuation pay will not change. It didn’t change last year, either, meaning the 2008 rate is the same as was paid in 2006.

Details of the 2008 program were slated to come out Feb. 1.

Pilots reaching the end of their eight-year active-duty service commitments during fiscal 2008 can sign up to stay another five years in exchange for an annual $25,000 bonus, according to Lt. Col. Kip Turain, a mobility pilot and chief of the rated force policy branch at Air Force headquarters.

Air battle managers at the end of their six-year service commitments will receive $15,000 annually if they extend for five years.


Rest of article at: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/02/airforce_pilot_bonus_080201w/