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So weird...also 2006 11m and mine got kicked back like 2 weeks ago. Unless they did a batch right after the window and are about to do another

Also got my denial....also eligible for everything according to the guidance. Sounds like everyone will get their denial if you have any UPT commitment and we can all agree that it's bullshit. However for the people talking about an IG complaint...this sounds very familiar to last time. I am wondering if anything actually changed or came out of the IG complaints last time around? Because it doesn't seem like it did anything. What is your goal for an IG complaint in this situation?

My wing cc mentioned the same thing today...unless they change something they will all get denied

Anyone have some updated info on this topic? I don't know much about the reserves, but it seems like orders have changed a bunch since 2009. Is it still possible to make a living in the reserves with no other job? What is the reserve hiring climate right now for a current active duty C-17 IP?

I see what you are saying...but a vsp looks good if you don't think you would be selected for RIF. My understanding is the RIF is quality cuts based. While I don't think I am a superstar, if you have SOS, masters complete, and a series of good strats my guess is you could have a low shot of getting picked. And then if you bank on the RIF, miss it, and the Air Force subsequently over reacts and cuts too many people you could lose out on your only shot.

Elaborate please...

Nope, you can get the BAC+ just fine with the 12 credits for FTU of some sort and SOS in-res, plus an additional 1 class to total 15 credits. After you are done, you have to call up some office at AFIT which is responsible for updating your SURF to reflect BAC+. I think I had to send in a copy of my current transcript showing I had 15 credits. So, like others were saying, if you did something like Brandman where you automatically get 15 credits just for signing up, then you should get the BAC+ in the amount of time to apply for the college, get accepted, and for AFIT to correct your records. At least that has been my experience and the experience of a bunch of my friends...

I am enrolled in ERAU right now with one course under my belt. I got no credit for UPT, and I am not aware of that option. You get 3 credits for SOS in-res (counts towards 1 of the 4 classes you need to take for an Aerospace emphasis for Aeronautical Sciences. I also got 9 credits for C-17 initial qualification (which all count towards the 9 elective credits you need for the degree. So, you wind up only needing to take 1 class to get the BAC+.

I have done 1 class through ERAU and really not enjoying it. It seems worthless, and yet I had to spend a bunch more time on it than I thought I would...so whats the point. I would rather spend my time getting a legit degree; unfortunately I only have above 1 year and 8 months or so until I should really have this thing done for my Majors board, and that really isn't enough time to start a legit MBA program. So now, I want to just get the absolute easiest degree done (something I can do within a year or so) and then go back later and get a real masters. After reading this entire thread, I am considering the AU ALMP because it sounds pretty easy and has the benefit of ACSC partial completion. However, this UMT sounds easy as shit. Can anyone expand on this "close to zero effort" you speak of?

Thanks for the info everybody. They sure did not make it easy to get a short tour with these new changes...at least not in the C-17 community (unless of course you go on a 365).

I have a couple of questions about this short tour subject, if anyone has some info. First, does anyone have an answer to the above question? Seems pretty applicable in my airframe. Secondly, I am wondering how important a short tour is at my current stage. I am an 06 Captain with DOR of 2010 and a C-17 driver at second C-17 assignment. I could be getting a 180 day CAOC tour and if I combine this with another 60 day deployment, then I might be able to squeeze out a short tour (also counting other OCONUS days TDY from other missions). In this scenario I would be using the 300 days in 18 month rule. Right now my STRD is some random date in 2007, which confuses me because I don't believe I should have a short tour at all...and so I figured your STRD would just be your date of commissioning. Regardless, if I can get my STRD to be sometime this year...could that be beneficial to me to avoid other shitty deals and possible iTDYs, etc in the future? I would imagine that most of my peers do not have a short tour as well, and so once we become Majors in 2 or 3 years, we will be looked at for all these random deployments and the guys with the most recent STRD will be the winners, correct?

No, in my experience, being AD qual'd does not make you more likely to stay in the C-17...although I think 5-10 years ago it could have and so a lot of new guys might hear that from their UPT instructors. I would like to say that currently it has almost nothing to do with it at all. I just got to my second C-17 assignment, as an airland guy at Charleston and timing and ranking has everything to do with if you get a follow on C-17. For example, while I was there I saw countless guys that were not only airdrop but also SOLL II, get sent to a non C-17 assignment or to a non-air drop C-17 base...even real stand up guys. Out of my year group, myself, and two of my friends who were all just airland guys all got another C-17 assignment. Then, the next couple of assignment cycles after that there were at least 4 to 5 airdrop guys that all got sent to MC-12s or T6s/T1s. I would say that the only thing that airdrop does for you is makes you slightly more competitive for some opportunities and awards while you are at that base, which in turn could potentially give you a higher ranking and then get you that coveted only C-17 that might drop as a second assignment to your base/squadron. Also, as an airdrop guy, you could be more marketable for places like Hickam if they just so happen to only want a lead airdrop pilot or something. However, you will also spend a shit ton more time at Altus, and not go on as many trips as just airland guys...and just because you are airdrop does not guarantee you a higher ranking if you just happen to also be a douchebag. So in my mind, it was not really a risk at all to not go airdrop since I did not want to. Currently there are three situation that will happen: If you work your ass off and are a stand up person, and your commander loves you, you should get a C-17 as a second assignment; if you work kinda hard, and you have the right timing, you will also get a follow on; and lastly if the timing is just horrible, or you suck, there is nothing you can do about it, and you will most likely go AETC, MC-12s or UAVs. Of course, that could probably be applied to any assignment...

They updated one of the news stories: "I was watching it do maneuvers, thinking it was practicing for the Air Show this weekend," wrote one witness on base who asked to remain anonymous. He wrote he saw it just drop out of the sky followed by huge fireball. https://www.adn.com/2010/07/28/1385727/cargo-plane-reported-down-on-base.html

I seem to get different answers all the time on what the current palace chase rule is. The most recent I heard was that you could "apply" for the program when 8 out of your 10 years is done, or something along those lines, but before that I heard something completely different. Any documentation on this? Is it that the program just doesn't exist anymore...or that the air force is just not approving any right now. Policy on this type of thing just goes in waves right? I mean, I haven't been in the air force for more than 10 years, but there seems to be a trend of over-reacting to these situations...too many people in, kick too many people out, too many people out, get too many people back in...right? So if the trend continues that would imply that in 3 or 4 years, we should be kicking people out again? Care to speculate?

I don't get this "blues on monday" sh*& at all...how is it that everyone on this site (obviously including all different ranks) can agree that this is a horrible idea and yet this is still a policy. Maybe someone of higher ranking than myself can answer this but at what stage in the rank game do people start making decisions like this??? And can ANYONE explain how blues on monday is a good idea? What could possibly have been a good reason for this??..or perhaps a reason at all...anyone? Also I hear rumors of fighter pilots / fighter pilot bases just saying f*#$ it and not wearing blues on mondays at all...is this true...because if it is I wonder why heavy bases can't jump on board.

When people talk about "applying to the 89th", that isn't just air force one right? I looked it up and it looks like they fly like 5 different types of aircraft...so is there one of those that you have to start with? Are the requirements listed above just for entry into the squadron...or just for air force one? I was under the impression that you had to work in the 89th for a long long time before actually landing something like air force one. Regardless it seems to me like you would have to know a lot of people to get anywhere near it.

I'm going C-17s to Charleston within the month...does anyone have any recent info on how often you'll be gone / how many trips you get a month (I'm going to the 15th, so I am missing my squadron's deployment right now) One of the reasons i ask is I am trying to rationalize the type of place I get to live in...aka, if I'm never going to be there I'm going to get a shittier place. I just don't want to be spending my entire BAH on a place if I'm never going to see it.

I figured i would post this here since we're talking about headsets. I am about to go to C17 PIQ, and someday in the near future I am considering noise cancelling headsets. Anyone have experience with these and/or have recommendations not to? I don't even know if you can use them with the C17 actually...but I am worried that you won't be able to hear the engine and it will screw up your controls.

The T-1 side actually got 3 NSAs to cannon...and only 3 C17s. Not so hot of a drop honestly. I guess not having a Vance 0808 didn't help us much. I can't complain though since I got one of the C17s.