Civil engineer deployments will last 6 months

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Civil engineer deployments will last 6 months
Staff report
Posted : Friday Nov 2, 2007 6:32:56 EDT

Airmen in civil engineering career fields can expect their deployments to last six months instead of the four-month standard of traditional air expeditionary force deployments.

The official change is set for January.

"Over the past three years, civil engineers have been in a surge operations tempo that has a majority of our forces on 179-day tours, others on 120-day tours and an increasing number on 365-day tours,” Maj. Gen. Del Eulberg, Air Force civil engineer, said in a recent letter to his airmen. “To meet the continuing high demand while providing commanders a measure of predictability and stability to home station missions, we sought and received approval to place all civil engineers in an alternative construct for AEF Cycle 7 beginning January 2008."

The civil engineering airmen can expect to deploy for six months and then have 12 months at home base before being available for another six-month tour.

Several other Air Force career fields, such as security forces, already have six-month standard AEF deployments and others have had to send many of their members for half-year stays in order to make up for overall personnel shortages.

In fact, about 40 percent of airmen on deployment to Operation Enduring Freedom or Operation Iraqi Freedom are deploying for at least six months.


Article at: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/11/airforce_civilengineers_071102w/