While we pay for all of the illegals having babies and working under the table.....

Air Force Pink Slips More Than 400 Officers
Published November 02, 2011

The Air Force is laying off 436 captains and majors as part of a multiyear program to adjust its staffing levels after its retention rate hit its highest level in 16 years.

Although the cuts are aimed at meeting congressionally mandated targets, they are not related to the $450 billion that the Pentagon will slash from its budget over the next decade, officials told FoxNews.com.

The Air Force must limit its workforce to 332,800 officers and enlisted airmen by the end of this fiscal year, or Sept. 30, 2012. As of October, the workforce numbered 329,000 people. But the reductions are based on projections made at the beginning of the fiscal year and monthly numbers wildly fluctuate, officials told FoxNews.com.

The layoffs were made by the Reduction-in-Force Board, which reviewed the records of 8,832 officers.

“The objective of the board was to retain the best-qualified officers according to the ‘whole-person’ concept used in promotion boards,â€