Ep 472: The Air Force Just Ghosted Your Bonus and Retirement Plans

Ones Ready

Aaron Love, Trent Seegmiller, and Jared "Peaches" Pietras

Pj, Cct, Combat Control, Tacp, Government, Special Warfare, Assessment And Selection, Education, Pararescue, Special Reconnaissance, Tactical Air Control Party, Special Operations, Fitness, Selection, Self-improvement, Air Force, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Send us a text In this high-velocity “WTF is happening?” episode of the Ones Ready podcast, Jared pulls no punches breaking down the latest Pentagon finance dumpster fire—because apparently, the Air Force’s solution to a budget shortfall is to hit pause on YOUR retirement and nuke the Selective Retention Bonus mid-fiscal year. Classic. We’re talking cancelled bonuses, delayed separation orders, SkillBridge chaos, and the mind-blowing revelation that even the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air F...

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0:00.0	One's ready?
0:03.2	Go!
0:07.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to the Once Ready podcast.
0:09.8	This is going to be a pretty quick one for you.
0:13.7	So no ad reads or anything like that.
0:16.4	But we have plenty of ad reads that you want to go over to Wond's Ready.com.
0:20.9	Check out our partner page under prep.
0:24.1	All right, Aaron put out a reel yesterday, and it was, I don't want to say it's going viral,
0:30.5	but it's definitely catching a lot of steam.
0:34.7	And I've been in contact with some of the members up at the
0:37.8	Chief Mass starting the Air Force's office. Also this was sent out today. So let me
0:46.1	share this with you guys. That way you have an update on it and then we can just kind
0:51.6	of go from there and we'll there.
0:55.3	Okay.
0:57.6	So what this says, and I'll just read it out, especially for the audio folks, directors,
1:02.5	executives and chiefs, or not executives, execs, rather, bluff for bottom line up front.
1:09.4	Guidance below has been pushed out from ACC A1 and the 99th MPF to leadership in your CCS-CS
1:17.6	distress.
1:18.6	Exception to policy requests can be submitted to the Wing A-1 for Wing Commander endorsement,
1:25.6	subject to the conditions outlined below in the PDPSDM.
1:31.3	The Air Force is experiencing a shortfall in FY25 military personnel appropriations.
1:38.6	To ensure the solvency of the FY25 no-perse pay budget, the Air Force directed AFPC to take the following specific
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