PET-Shot

You can't switch while in Nav school to the Guard or Reserves. Also, the RC-26 consists of a crew of 2 pilots. No navs.

With regards to speeding and parking tickets, I don't think there is an exact set number of tickets that will automatically become an issue for you. I think the Air Force looks at it like this: If you are constantly receiving tickets or get a bunch of tickets in a short amount of time, you are establishing a pattern of poor judgment and/or carelessness. That, they believe, could indicate how you will act in the future on more important or sensitive issues. Valid point or not, I don't know, and am not the one to decide that, but that is how they do it. There citations are completely in your control so there really is no excuse, ie not speeding or parking illegally. Don't test the waters and be reckless especially in these times of Force Shapping and the RIF. You're just highlighting yourself. Oh, and since most Universities are State Universities, citations issued by their "parking nazis" or police are legit and COULD (not always) get you into more trouble if you ignore them. They are citations by the state, even if you don't think they are significant. JUST DON'T DO IT.

I have been to Turkey as well. But only while traveling. Visiting an arab/Islamic nation for 3 weeks is vastly different than living there for a 11-12 months. By living there for that long you will inevitably make "contacts" according to investigators. They will ask you this strait up, and there is no way you could deny it. They would take a very close look at that. You can study the language, culture, beliefs in the US. The Air Force does have emersion programs where they will send you on official orders - which they look at a lot differently than if you go off and do it on your own. I have a pilot in my squadron who became perminently DNIFd and DQd from flying. He is fluent in Chineese and has studied the culture. The Air Force is now sending him on a 6-8 month emersion program to China instead of giving him the pink slip, and they offered him an Intel Slot to boot. There is no reason to take off a year of school to go there to experience the language and culture. You will have the opportunities in the future to do the same thing. After you look into it further, you should let us know what you find out and what you decide.

I think that this will likely hamper your ability to serve especially under those circumstances. You may very well have to decide what is more important to you. You will travel while in the Air Force, and you are more than welcome to travel once you get out of the Air Force. Leaving ROTC for a year to travel to those countries for "vacation" will not look favorable on you. Do some in depth research before you make your choice. And contrary to what you said, the Air Force may not always be there for you when you get back. Think about it. I am sure others agree with me. [ 29. November 2006, 06:21: Message edited by: PET-Shot ]

You can not randomly declare a state your state of residence. You must have some connection to that state to claim residence there (whether it be living there, going to school there, being stationed there, have a DL from there or vehicle registered there, etc). While you probably will not be prevented from claiming that state with finance, it could one day bite you in the butt. I don't know to what extent you could be punished, but you do not want a black mark on your file for tax fraud or evasion - or something along those lines. Shoot an email to a JAG. [ 26. October 2006, 10:50: Message edited by: PET-Shot ]

I don't think it will be too difficult. I have to make an appointment to speak with the JAGs office. They are going to give me a short brief on what to do. Hopefully it the project will be short and sweet, but I know they can be very time consuming sometimes.

It is for the computer section within our squadron, which means the equipment could actually belong to one of the shops. I kind of figured that filling out the paperwork would be the most difficult part. Thanks.

Anyone ever done a Report of Survey? I got tagged by my squadron to be the investigating officer for some stolen/missing equipment. Have not found anybody in the squadron who has done one that has time to answer a few questions. It's an interesting additional duty but going through regs is a pain. Grandpa [ 08. October 2006, 18:47: Message edited by: Toro ]

I do actually think it is valuable that we get training in both areas (nav, ewo). It never hurts to be knowledgable on what everyone does on board. The new CSO concept will make us more versitile and more of an asset than just a nav or ewo or wso. After all, it takes a crew to get the mission done. We can always be there to back each other up.

Randolph is quite different than Pcola. That is why they plan on combining both school there in 4 or 5 years. I did not find the Nav side all that exciting so I tracked EWO. It's quite a bit more challenging than the Nav side. I know you Pcola guys come and take classes with us EWOs, though I didn't have any in my class. I just got my wings a few weeks ago and I already forgot how to use the whiz wheel. J/K. Though I won't be doing much of that anymore anyways as a RC EWO. Guess my first 5 months of nav training were just FYI. But seriously, the training was invaluable. So they tell us. Ha! Grandpa

Falconview beats the heck out of planning/plotting manually. Somewhere in your unit should be a instruction manual, though you could just take some free time and play around with it (sts). You can figure it out pretty quickly. It will do dang near everything you need it to do.

172 training days is about 9 months give or take.

It's 172 training days (week days-not to include weekends/holidays). That training timeline starts once your class begins, not when you report. You will be in San Antonio a lot longer than that. Approx 1 year, maybe shorter if you are lucky. A RIP is just a recursor to orders; PCS, training, etc.

Well if you are already a citizen with SSN and all that jazz, then you are well on your way. Just got to worry about college and ROTC. Good Luck

Before you would be able to commission in the US Air Force you would have to become a US citizen. One must be a US citizen to become an officer, and one must be an officer before you can become a pilot. I am not sure what your situation is since you were born in the US; though you stated you are a Danish citizen. I imagine that it would make things easier since you were born here. Good Luck with it all Grandpa

If any of you are in charge of putting together your commissioning ceremonies for December or next spring, I was in charge of putting together my Dets ceremony this past May. It went really well. I have a script I could pass on, along with a program and flyer that could be used as templates for future use. Just PM me or give me your email address. Grandpa

I'm 06-11. We just started SN a week ago. I'm thinking about EWO but want to get more info. I believe we get more briefs on it in a few months. I was a Criminal Justice major in college, so this Tech stuff is well beyond me right now but they say wouldn't be impossible for me. The track select is basically first come - first served. They rank everyone in your class performance and start from the top. They go up to the front in order, and each individual must choose/announce what they want. After the last of any one slot is taken (usually EWO), everyone else gets what is left. 06-08 (I think) just did this on Thursday. They only had 5 EWO slots for 30+ people in the flight. I believe they made it into the double digets (10 or 11 people went up) before all of the EWO slots were taken. You have to come back for further training after you get your wings and complete survival/SERE. I'm not sure how long that is. We shall see after I get more info. For now I'm just trining to survive Nav training. It's all down hill after your EP test, so enjoy it while you can. Grandpa

Thanks for everyone's input. I am going to keep pushing things for the Nav slot for the next few weeks. As time to commissioning becomes short, I will start following up on other options. Grandpa

I have been handling it to the best of my ability, as an officer should. I keep getting the answers "just hang in there", or "we don't know". Being told to wait and see bothers me. This is very disconserting. They are not very proactive in this situation. Grandpa

I feel like I am getting screwed by the Air Force. I am AFROTC and was awarded a navigator slot as a alternate in Novermber of 2004. 5 days later I was given a pilot slot. In January 05 I went to Brooks. On the 10th of this month, I was told I was DQd from pilot because of my eyes, but I was given a waiver for navigator. However, no navigator slots are available at this time. Because of this, and the timing of it all, I have been slated to be a missile/munitions maintenance officer, but I have not been given a base. They said that I may get a nav slot back if one becomes available prior to commissioning (14 May 05), but if not, I have to take the missile/munitions maintenance job. I feel like I was give a job from the bottom of the barrel - whatever was left over from the general catigorization at the end of last year. Going from what many consider to be the most prestegious jobs in the AF (pilot, nav) to the bottom is not sitting well with me. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Grandpa