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Once again the comments section on that article is hilarious. Everyone is an expert...

11B but no hire letter.

Same here.

I don't get it. Only asking 18 months and they disapprove. Trying to plug the ships holes with their fingers so to speak.

Did your Sq/WG recommend approve or disapprove? That's good to hear about them easing the policy on auto-disapprove anything outside a year. My OG called AFPC about a month ago and they told him they aren't seeing much of anything get approved outside of 12 months parole.

It's all cyclical. By the time you young-uns drop the AF will have screwed something else up...

Which is an excuse to get us fat kids running...

Exactly. And because SAF/PC is refusing to approve almost all Palace Chase Apps outside of 6 months, many guys I know are saying screw the Guard/Reserves, I am done with this garbage all together. If they would start being reasonable with PC approvals, guys would stay till retirement in the ARC, instead we lose them forever.

And it was my first student sortie...

Thanks for the info! Did #2 get passed over?

The juvenile record shouldn't affect anything from what I have seen. I would definitely bring it up during an ANG interview as a way you have grown up and learned. It may also bring some levity if you tell it the right way. I am most worried about your hand. I know from personal experience how strict the Medical Standards are for pilot applicants. Once you have wings they are much more inclined to do everything they can to chain er... Keep you in the service. This is probably something I wouldn't bring up. If they ask you about it tell them the truth, but don't do their jobs for them. At your DODMERB were you classified as "Pilot Qualified" or "Nav" or something else? (I was initially just Nav, do they even still do that?)

Sorry I should have been more clear. My MWS is at 107% and my T-6 base is over-manned by the mid teens. No t-6 guy here is DAV coded.

Community Manning is at 107% and my base is "double digit" T-6 IPs fat. I have a great record with good SQ and OG strats and a couple DGs, but from a smaller, less competitive base, so my records probably look better than if I was at a super wing for my first assignment. I feel confident that I am doing the best thing for my family and feel I have given the AF ample opportunity to retain me on the AD force. I will probably end up telling my DO, but I just have this feeling that no matter what I write on this letter the promotion rate is going to be so high that I am still going to get picked up anyways, but at least I can sleep knowing that I at least tried.

Absolutely, but after 4 failed PC/Hardship and Misc separations... And leadership telling me I need to stop applying until I am about a year out, it puts me in this situation.

Not sure how most units are but I would strongly suggest getting at least some logged flight time. Like 10 hours or so. At the Guard unit I was stationed they wouldn't consider anyone who hasn't at least done some flying just to see that it was for them.

Good suggestion but I tried that and got denied by WG/CC and AFPC and SAF/PC. Sq/CC approved though. At my base the current guidance is they will disapprove all Separation/PC cases outside of 6 months.

So my goal is to get once passed over and then request an early Palace Chase/Separation from AD before my second board. However those twice passed over waivers are getting approved by all my buds who have been twice passed over... I see all the gears turning on here but any answers to my original question on how to handle my True Blue leadership?

Ihtfp06, it would get me to the ANG 2 years sooner than if I stayed to the bitter end. I still want to serve full time but I have family issues pulling me back home. Twice passed over, they will offer me continuation and I will decline it and make the transition.

I am writing a "Do Not Promote" letter to my first look O-4 board. 1) will my Wing CC be able to see this? 2) should I give someone in my chain a heads up? They know why I want to get out and go to the ANG (family health reasons), but seem to hate anyone who tries to, God forbid, get out of AD. Any advice would be appreciated.

I had a great time at SOS. Only 3 pilots in my flight but we had 3 think tankers too. Re-reading my post I realize I came off as passive aggressive towards Ratner, definitely not my intention. When I went through CZ was in charge and I saw him take the Think Tank work and present it to the AETC Commander as his own. I was already pretty jaded on senior management but that was the tipping point.

Ratner you know that Think Tank is only designed to give the O-6 a bullet point to champion to his bosses right? But at least you will walk away with a DG for your efforts (most likely).

Shame on all of you for not asking for pictures first! Have you not learned anything since being here?

I failed my first depth perception test on the machine. The follow up test was much easier. I remember the guy remarking that it was not uncommon to fail that portion of the test. That was over 12 years ago so maybe they changed it?

The real test is easier I would say. The letters are much larger than your picture. I wouldn't worry about it. You can't change it either way.

Hello 2008.