Mike Honcho

Is the master's still a check box, or does it need to be in an applicable field? I got an MS in biology before OTS and I'm in the WSO pipeline; will I need to get another one? I know times change and this is a way off, but the thread's here.

What if you're still in training and don't have the leather? We're not in blues that much here at P'cola, but you never know around here. I've seen guys around the base wearing nomex and leather with civillian clothes, is this a Navy thing? Hate to ask noob questions, but 2903 is about as clear as mud and there's not very many places to go and ask AF specific questions around here.

What I'm hearing down here in Pensacola is that we (WSO studs) will be sent to EWO school for B-1's and possibly for the 15-E. But this is as far as I've been, wouldn't know about tracking to the strike side from the heavy side.

FWIW, I got my clothing stipend while at OTS, and I was non-prior. I'm also AD, so you may want to work this with your unit's finance folks. Also, if it makes sense for you, USAA has a pre-commissioning loan up to 25k with 5k unsecured (do anything you want with the $). Don't have to start paying back on it for a year after you get the loan. [ 28. September 2005, 21:22: Message edited by: JReyn ]

When he tested me the first time, my eyes were dilated with that cycloplegic ungodly-last-for-3-days crap they use during flight physicals. When it was a couple of points high, he performed the puff test 3-4 more times. THEN he figured out my corneas are thicker than normal, which gives a false positive on the test. After all that, he did a test called applanation tonometry, which is the gold standard. Of course it was high too. All these things (dilation, multiple tests) will raise pressures, and by the time he did the good test, it was way high. I went to a civillian opthalmologist for a full workup, thinking I had glaucoma, and got the rundown, which is that I'm fine. Of course it threw some light on the situation when the doc doing the original tests told me that if I was winged already he'd just give me drops to lower the pressure and it wouldn't be a big deal at all... :rolleyes: [ 08. September 2005, 16:17: Message edited by: JReyn ]

This hit me as well. I'd reccomend RIGHT NOW, before the next exam, go get checked by an opthalmologist (eye doc with an M.D.) that you trust for the bottom line. Having your eyes dilated will increase your IOP. So will multiple tests. The puff test isn't the best way to test pressure, you need something called applanation tonometry, where they touch a piece to your eye and measure it - that's dumbed down, but you get the picture. This almost cost me my flight physical and entry into OTS. Don't think it's something like being 2lbs overweight, they wanted to DQ me based on this. If you need more info, PM me.

Go to www.specialtactics.com. All the training info you need.

First of all, I have no idea nor clue about what happened to you. Why I'm answering is that during my FC1A, the doc read my chest X-ray and wrote I have "mild desxtroscoliosis of the thoracic spine". The machine was broken and they couldn't do a followup, so I went to an ortho doc I know here in town. Long story short, I've got 4 degrees of curve, and he said if he shot xrays on his office staff, 60-75% of them would have that much curve. Called the guy at the base a 'bozo' and said he was nuts. Anyway, they may just be seeing something that's barely there, and just want to document EVERYTHING before they let you go. That's the story I'm getting; they just want to know every damn thing. Good luck.

Can't speak for exact times, but I got notified of my selection for Nav on 11 June and could have been in the 6 July class (0408). Now that's for a Nav, and I don't have a completed flight physical. Get on the physical now if you want to leave soon after selection. I would also reccomend civilian workups of any weak links before you go, to be educated and not walk into any suprises. My 2 pesos.