Retaining senior air officers such as lieutenant colonel and colonel" The military proposes a plan to extend the service of Tom Cruise to the age of 58

In order to solve the problem of retaining pilots in the Air Force, the Ministry of National Defense has promoted the "Tom Cruise Plan" to allow lieutenant colonel flying officers to extend their service until the age of 58. The picture shows a still from the movie The Lone Ranger. (File photo, provided by UIP)

In order to solve the problem of retaining Air Force flying officers, the Ministry of National Defense stated yesterday that it has completed the "Air Force Dedicated Flying Officer Utilization Method" and submitted it to the Executive Yuan for review on September 4. It will adopt a special project to increase the number of posts and extend the service to retain highly qualified, experienced and mature lieutenant colonel flying officers who have served for more than 14 years.

The Ministry of National Defense promoted the "Air Force Specialized Flying Officer Utilization Measures", which is also known as the "Tom Cruise Plan" by the outside world. In the 2022 movie "The Lone Ranger", the famous American actor Tom. The character played by Cruise is Colonel Mitchell, who has served in the U.S. Navy for more than 30 years and has been promoted to general in the same period. He is still training new military pilots on the front line and even pilots aircraft to perform combat missions.

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The Ministry of National Defense pointed out that the Air Force’s flight manpower ratio currently stands at 87. eight%. The pilots who have retired from the Air Force so far this year have all served the minimum statutory years, and those who have not reached the maximum years of service at each level. The reasons for retirement include "the choice of middle-aged and elderly people to change careers", "recruitment for the expansion of civil aviation fleet", etc.

The Ministry of National Defense explained that according to the "Service Regulations for Army, Navy and Air Force Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers", the maximum service years for lieutenant colonels are twenty-six years (about 48 years old), and the maximum service years for colonels are thirty years (about fifty-two years old). Since there is no flying benefit after retirement, compared with civil aviation pilots who can practice until the age of 65, early transfer has the advantage of continuing the flying career. Some pilots will choose to transfer after the basic service period expires or after serving for 20 years, making it difficult to retain senior flight manpower in the national army.

According to public report data, senior school-level pilots can receive up to about 300,000 yuan per month after receiving bonuses and service renewal bonuses. However, compared with the average monthly salary of civil aviation regular pilots of 400,000 to 500,000 yuan, whether the new measures can truly retain talents needs to be verified later.

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