The Military Times has this story, suggesting that the Air Force still has lots of room to improve it's internal matching procedures:
Air Force to end preferred basing for enlisted as it changes how airmen find new jobs. By Rachel S. Cohen
"The Air Force this month will suspend its 4-year-old “base of preference” program for airmen who are on at least their second enlistment contract, saying it fails to send most applicants to the installations they want.
"Stopping the initiative at the end of May can also offer the service more flexibility to move airmen around as military staffing needs dictate.
The change affects “career airmen,” or those who have reenlisted at least once. They previously needed to spend at least four years in their jobs before leaving for a preferred base.
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"That success rate would have been way higher if we actually had a resource where your standard airman could easily see what bases had openings/low manning, without having to have your [senior enlisted leader] ask your [career field manager] (who probably gets pinged about that at least once a week from people all over the world),” Reddit user JustHangInThere wrote April 28."
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Here's a post from 2020 about a NAS report that offered some suggestions on how to improve Air Force matching of personnel to bases and jobs:
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