More than 3,000 staff, technical and master sergeants have been identified to receive retraining vulnerability notices under the initial phase of the Air Force’s fiscal 2006 Noncommissioned Officer Retraining Program. The program will help balance the enlisted force by moving NCOs in specialties with surpluses to those with shortages. In Phase I of the program, Air Force officials notified NCOs who were vulnerable to retrain. Officials asked them to submit their choices of shortage career fields or to apply for special duty assignments no later than Oct. 14. If voluntary measures fail, the Air Staff will implement Phase II, involuntary retraining. In Phase II, individuals identified as vulnerable in Air Force Specialty Codes not meeting retraining-out objectives, and without approved retraining or special duty assignments by Oct. 14, will be involuntarily retrained. Vulnerability listings are on AFPC’s web site and will be updated weekly at https://www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/enlskills/retraining/retraining.htm.