{"id":9314,"date":"2011-02-08T00:30:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T05:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9314"},"modified":"2011-02-06T22:17:16","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T03:17:16","slug":"air-force-pilot-uav-bonus-continues-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/08\/air-force-pilot-uav-bonus-continues-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Pilot, UAV Bonus Continues in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123239974\">announced it would continue<\/a> the &#8220;pilot bonus,&#8221; formally known as Aviator Continuation Pay (ACP), in 2011.\u00a0 The program gives a bonus to pilots and now UAV pilots for a commitment extending beyond their initial service requirement.\u00a0 For most pilots, this occurs 10 years after they graduate from pilot training.<\/p>\n<p>As in <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/air-force-renews-pilot-bonuses\/\">past years<\/a>, these aircrew can accept a $25,000 per year bonus for an additional commitment of five years.\u00a0 A second (lower) level is offered for those who did not take the bonus the first time they were eligible.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, Air Battle Managers and Combat System Operators (formerly known as WSOs or Navs) are not eligible, because their &#8220;career field has stabilized.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Air Force announced it would continue the &#8220;pilot bonus,&#8221; formally known as Aviator Continuation Pay (ACP), in 2011.\u00a0 The program gives a bonus to pilots and now UAV pilots for a commitment extending beyond their initial service requirement.\u00a0 For most pilots, this occurs 10 years after they graduate from pilot training. As in past years, these aircrew can accept [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1414,134,1415,5285,2,1416,32],"class_list":["post-9314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-acp","tag-air-force","tag-aviator-continuation-pay","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-pilot-bonus","tag-pilot-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}