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Places chase approved! 4 months parole, and just under a year GI bill to reserves. approvals at all levels with letter of intent to hire. At SAF PC for 8 weeks Thanks for all the help guys!!

Asked for 4 months off UPT with just under 365 days to GI bill to reserves, with approvals all the way up so far and a letter of intent to hire. Not conifdent in the "approval" though. It was the standard friend of a friend of a friend. ISR called AFPC contact who called SAF/PC contact and relayed back, but I feel it's as "that one will get approved with all the supporting info". Its aggravating that the new process went from somewhat streamlined of 1-5 weeks to now 12-16 weeks.

Got informally told approved but that it will be 12-15 weeks for "official approval". It's been there 5 weeks. House sold, reserves hired, waiting on "official approval" so my family and I can get on with our life.....

What problems have you seen? Seriously asking. Not trying to start the standard bomber on bomber hate fest, has there a problem with B-1 units run by B-52 guys? As you know, B-52 wings also swapped leadership, and I for one am extremely happy with the "progress" we are making in crossflow in our communities. As the bone and buff pogo between AORs, having mid and upper level leadership with experience in both locations can, in my mind, help us all advance. Bones in the Pacific, WG/CCs that have been SQ/CCs there (plus a shit hot SQ/CC leading the charge who developed the current CBP). BUFFs in CENTCOM, great B-1 WG/CCs that were SQ/CCs through that. To me, the biggest down fall is that the CGO level exchange should have been going on for far longer in order to share/populate good ideas from both communities and highlight/question bad ones with the outside perspective this crossflow provides. Thoughts?

That blows! Got in touch with my functional today and he said it has recently been 1-5 weeks. Hopefully we all get answers soon.

Any recent updates on timeline? My package made it to SAF PC last week so curious to see if the new process has sped things up or slowed it down. Fingers crossed.

Yeah, seriously asked at my base. SSgt xx: excuse me sir, where is Capt xx doing that thing? me: what thing? SSgt xx: makes a "takeoff" motion with her hands a few times me: flying? SSgt xx: yeah! That's it! me: the runway SSgt xx: where is that?

The article references us as a "national asset". Maybe the AF is starting to realize that pilots are important to this whole AF thing.

Thanks for all the data. For the MFR, I'm going to a TFI FTU so should be able to spin that to help out as long as I don't get fragged by GI Bill.

Anyone have luck Palace Front with GI Bill TX still past your DOS? I was pursuing PC due to GI Bill, but ISR is recommending PF. I know the whole discussion we have had here on the GI Bill, but my recruiters all concur that PF with GI Bill straight to the reserves is a non-issue.

I got a couple responses. Thanks for the help guys!

Anyone mind sharing examples of successful personal MFRs? Spoke with my AFPC functional today and he approves but highly recommended the MFR for SAF. Asking for 4 months off UPT and transfer 363 days of GI Bill to Reserves.

Yeah I think overall it's considered a great deal by buff drivers. Don't know why you bone guys aren't amped about things like Minot and nuke?? (Sarcasm)

Speaking of the hiring letter, my reserve unit said they just fill in a position number when I submit my 1288. Recruiter agreed. Am I missing anything with that by not having an actual hiring letter? Also, any luck recently with requests around the below stats? requesting 4 months UPT and 12 months TEB to the reserves. Will not be supported by base leadership, but may have AFPC buy in. Contiplating sucking it up for the last 4 months of UPT ADSC to give myself the best odds. Thanks

Hah! That's hilarious to take one last discriminative jab. Guess what? The airline bonus is well beyond that.