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Commanders are dropping like flies this year
ClearedHot replied to MDDieselPilot's topic in General Discussion
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Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone who applied for the UPT slot for the 112th Fighter Squadron out of Toledo has heard anything back about interviews and/or next steps in that process? The application was due 8/4 so it's been almost three weeks. This is only the second place I've applied and the first one sent me a rush invite the day the application closed, so I don't know if it's normal for there to be a wait like this or if it's normal to not even receive a rejection. I did receive confirmation that my application was received but nothing since then. Appreciate any insight on this, thanks.
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ClearedHot replied to Sua Sponte's topic in General Discussion
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True. Though, even suppressed, its still going to be at damaging levels. No reason to not.have a can on though.
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Sadly, I’ll still be deployed beyond the extended deadline so I have no way of accruing more hours before the deadline. It’s all good though. I’m not going to stress it at this point, because I literally can’t change any of it. The wing still thinks I have a competitive package, so we’ll see how it all plays out! Was your buddy by chance from Travis?
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Think the PSDM mentioned something about getting an extension to update flight hours if you’re deployed? Or something like that. In terms of strats, 2/2 is significantly different from getting 18/18 for example so I wouldn’t worry too much about it. I got a buddy who was 3/3 out of his wing and all 3 of them got a rated slot. Nice that you got your foot in the door at least!
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I’m not sure why my reply didn’t post but I’m typing it again. In my sq, we have instructor Lt’s so that’s weird your sq doesn’t have that. But, in my squadron there were about 5 that I believe submitted and I think all 5 made it to the wing. I did get confirmation that my package made it to the board so I’m hoping others did as well. As for the wing strat, I’d love to know how I did and I hate that this year it was changed to where the wing had to submit packages because it felt like once the package left the sq, it just went to a black hole. But at this phase I do believe that knowing how you did at the wing may be a moot point. If we’re meant to be picked up this year then we will, regardless of wing strats. After asking around I know how I did at the group, my sq cc told us, and I am assuming the rankings at the group could be similar to how we did at the wing since the group strat doesn’t go on the 215. Regardless, being rated already makes things super competitive and you gotta figure out how to make yourself stand out and FAA ratings beyond ppl can help because it seems like everyone has a ppl now a days. Anyways good luck to you and your peeps in your sq.
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Doesn't mean he didn't damage his cilia.
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I’ve been wondering the same thing. I was 2/2 at my Wing. The other applicant is/was(?) the Wing Exec, so there wasn’t much of a chance for anyone else to get that 1/2 strat. I think my SR rewrote his comments as best he could to portray that I’m also a competitive applicant, but it’s still a bummer. I’m currently deployed so even getting the package completed and submitted was a feat in and of itself seeing as I didn’t start until May and then had my AFOQT, TBAS, and IFC1 rescheduled multiple times thanks to Iran’s shenanigans. I did the best I could this time around without the ability to get more flight hours or enough time to retake the TBAS before the suspense. I’m proud of what I was able to accomplish and if I don’t get picked up I know where I can improve next year.
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Ill say for my sq we were/are the last lr squadron until we stand down and remission in 6 months. As for the bar, we had 6-7 push a package and 4 made it through. Myself and two other Lts with a deployment each and pilot/pcsm 99/99, 99/99, 99/98 then a seasoned captain: great scores, prior exec, shop chief, evaluator. At my sq it's tough to be shit hot whole Airman concept when every officer in the sq is an RPA Pilot and you arent making instructor as an Lt so you had to fire wall the numbers on the 215.
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what was the bar? and what sq?
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Auditory exclusion most definitely kicked in. He didn't hear shit
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Out at Creech so 90% of officers are rated and probably 99% of applicants are RPA pilots. I reached out to guys who applied in other sq with no luck. Only guess I have is that if you didn't get the push you were told. The bar in my sq was so high the hope is everyone made it all the way and hope you stratted well against everyone else.
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Fe warren, missile wing
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That’s crazy they didn’t tell y’all your strats or if you even made it out of the wing. And yeah, my thoughts exactly. Esp since the higher numbers are already rated folks going for pilot. I imagine those rated squadrons will have a more similar rack and stack compared to the board than non-rated.
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Silencer would be useful in these situations.
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What wing are you at?
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If you don’t mind what wing are you at or base
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My wg didn't even tell us our strats or whose packages they submitted. Only way I think i got submitted is my buddy in my sq got push back on his etp after the deadline by afpc which then trickled down the chain. A couple years ago we had the 1 at the wg and in my sq picked up for upt and my same buddy be #11 at the wg yet get an alternate slot. There's a chance the execs do most of the stratting based on cc guidance which may not align with the board's rack and stack. There were a handful of people in between in my wg that didn't even make the alternate list. I imagine strats could be used as a tie breaker but tough to assign a value when some wgs push 1 and others 15+.
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Does anyone know how heavy the senior rater stratifications weigh? I felt pretty confident in my package until our Wg/CC strated all of us that applied. I was ranked pretty low and after talking with some of the other guys, I noticed he didn’t really change any of the comments we drafted for him so I felt maybe he didn’t look over our packages thoroughly. Thinking of asking for feedback on how to earn a higher strat if I don’t get picked up this board, since I’m not sure what his ranking criteria is. Not sure if my scores, LOR, or accomplishments will help offset a low strat but I’m hoping it’s a whole person concept and this one data point won’t have too much effect.
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Man shoots bear that broke into his house...
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Sadly, propane. The natural gas comes in on the other side of the house. With the shape of the house, pool and screen enclosure I had to put the outdoor kitchen on the exact opposite corner of the house. My house is fairly large and they wanted $2,000 to run a gas line to the opposite side of the house. Also, the Ooni...man it makes a great pie. I have an iron skillet with the grip cut off that I use to cook steaks. Get it up to 900 degrees and slide the skillet in on top of the stone...Ruth's Chris style.
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Picking countries and percentages for tariffs:
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