Many are on options to extend past their 38 point now, (AFPS 15 requirement to offer this) meaning many have over 7 years to their exit date.
Disappointing that the most experienced are not being offered retention money, although you could argue a PA offer is a better and more lucrative deal in the longer term for recruitment, this is as long as further changes are not made to the pension and/or accrual rules.
Personally managed 3 1/2 ME FL tours by year 12, with over 6 years as skipper.
Now on AFPS 15, OTE and considering all options.
One thing to note though, we all pretty much as aircrew got the biggest pay rise in the public sector, including I believe MPs, so peeps cannot deny retention is seriously being looked at.