You were correct my friend. I was one of the 18 alternates and my commander told me 2 days ago I got an offer to go to Laughlin RNLTD March. Yes or no with zero flexibility, of course I said yes. Insanity. Current RPA, 94 pilot, 85 PCSM, 1/2 Sq, unknown wing, LOR from my Sq commander of 2 years which was very personal, one deployment, and 3 quarterly awards. For my rated peers I know leadership is difficult for us to obtain and demonstrate, especially us LTs, but we can get a lot of it from exercises and deployments. Volunteer for everything. Also, the board said the scheduler loaded my dates in, don’t know what that means as I don’t have anything on my CDB but I think we are very close.