668 Airmen face involuntary retraining

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RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) --  Although many Airmen have already volunteered to change career fields or separate under the initial phase of the Air Force's fiscal 2005 noncommissioned officer retraining program, 668 other active-duty Airmen face involuntary retraining.

In Phase I of the program, Air Force officials notified more than 3,000 Airmen selected as “vulnerable” to retrain and asked them to submit their choices of shortage career fields they would most like to retrain into.

As part of Phase II, 668 active-duty Airmen have been targeted for involuntary retraining into a specialty chosen for them by Air Force Personnel Center enlisted retraining officials here.

Phase II began Dec. 2 and will run through Feb. 28.

"This phase of the retraining program is necessary to help meet the needs of the Air Force by putting Airmen where they are needed most," said Tech. Sgt. Catina Johnson-Roscoe, NCO in charge of Air Force enlisted retraining.

"The retraining program is designed to help balance the enlisted force by moving NCOs in specialties with surpluses to those with shortages," said Chief Master Sgt. Terrence Reed, chief of AFPC's skills management branch.

"We will work with those Airmen who are selected for retraining, as we would any retraining case, in order to make the transition as smooth as possible for the Airman and his or her family while still meeting the needs of the Air Force," Sergeant Johnson-Roscoe said.

Vulnerability listings by grade and Air Force specialty are posted on the Web and will be updated weekly online at https://www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/enlskills/Retraining/retraining.htm.

Airmen interested in more details about the program can contact their local military personnel flight. (Courtesy of AFPC News Service)