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i'm sure the security forces guy who shot out the door is going to get a valor award for that one

maybe @stuckindayton can fill us in.

All clear has been given in one area Now reporting there was a training exercise and a possible negligent discharge...must have been someone's first desk pop https://on.whio.com/2KlOWs8 https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/08/02/active-shooter-incident-reported-at-wright-patterson-air-force-base/ *edit for more info

What unit are you going to? Have you heard anything about what waiver timelines actually are supposed to be now?

PM me your info and we can chat over the phone about what you want to do. short story...yes your wings do mean something to the AF, but with conditions, and yes squadrons are hiring and typically going to a recruiter first is the wrong approach. I'll get you squared away

I am also a satisfied customer of the interview prep service

keep trying, don't go Army...speaking from experience -Army Officers fly a decent amount as LT's, but that drops off drastically once you hit CPT and go to staff. If you go Army, go Warrant Officer and find a guard unit that you like. Rush them like you would the AF or you could end up with a community that sucks bad. -Age waivers are a real thing. For fighters they are less common. -I wont speak to your scores, i'll let someone who has sat on a board comment on that. @FlyArmy would you like to chime in as well?

December

read DoDI 1205.05, DoDI 1300.04, and DoDI 1304.25 Key words to search for... MSO, Inter-service transfer, service obligation

I’m doing one but I am doing it after I swear in with the new unit

1- Yes, it has been done multiple times. I will be one of those once my transfer from Army Guard to Air Guard goes through. 2- Yes especially if you are AD. If you are Guard/Reserve, it could be different. It would be best to talk about this offline as there is no "one size fits all" 3- Check out Dodi 1205.05, 1300.04, and 1304.25 4-Yes and easier as you would not need to go through UPT. you would go through a qualification course on the RW airframe. PM me if you would like to chat offline sometime.

These boards are typically for weekend warrior stuff. You can be offered full time status when you complete all your training but it differs unit to unit and what their needs are. again, depends on the unit. Some want your first point of contact to be with a recruiter they advertise, while others want you to talk to one of the pilots whose additional duties is being the POC for hiring boards.

Are you not interested in going through UPT to get a FW slot? which units have you already reached out to out of curiosity?

Messaging, and thanks for the quote.

The way my recruiter told me is that the paperwork passes through multiple offices during the approval process. It is reasonable to assume that each office only reviews the information in their lane, instead of one office doing a full top to bottom scrub. What verbiage do I need to tell my recruiter when this time comes so we can get this going? Do you have this in writing so I could show this to my recruiter? I would love to get dates in line as soon as my packet approval is done (fingers crossed for a first time go).

I'll second this. I have been issued this light and it works well...even after your crew chief leans out the window and drops it on the pavement from a 150 ft hover...

I had the honor to give a WWII fighter pilot his final send off today and hand the flag off to his family. if you are at your squadron bar tonight, throw up some shots for 1LT William Brown. Blue skies and strong tail winds https://obittree.com/obituary/us/indiana/knightstown/heritage-funeral-care/william-brown/3503869/

What he said...I stand corrected

Yes BAH is the same across all Compos. It is based off of your home of record and rank When I went through Army Flight school my wife was 7 months pregnant. No family around and I managed. It was nice having family around and plenty of other guys were there with kids so we were able to develop our own support network for the family to be taken care of when I was busy. Others had families that stayed back for employment reasons like the OP. It was awesome having my family there. When I go to UPT, my wife and two kids will be with me.

Not sure what others experiences have been, but I think all the ROTC cadets end up active duty and don't have the option of the Guard/Reserve route. Can any previous ROTC guys confirm or deny this? There are a ton of benefits to being Guard or Reserve. You will just have to dig through these forums and read all about them and make the decision of whether that is the best decision for your family. There's too much info for one post so enjoy reading. It's good that you are asking questions and taking charge of your career. Good luck with your journey man.

hell I use Velcro everything and never take off my patches when I wash. that's just me being lazy I guess...

Do you have anything in writing that shows this new change?

You probably did wear mulitcam Quick summary... -army has a contest for new pattern in early 2000’s -crye precision made scorpion (now our current uniform) -army rejects scorpion and takes an untested digital pattern (you’ve seen this garbage) -later the army realized it sucks, creates contract with crye who developed multicam and the army called it OCP (which is an updated scorpion) -Army wants new uniforms again and mulitcam is a big contender -congress, budgets, bull shit happens and they decide to use scorpion from years past but change the color swatch to match multicam under some shady copyright stuff -Army likes scorpions new look, convinced congress and others it cheaper than buying multicam (which was already in use down range) and gets it approved. -Army decides to call scorpion pattern OCP like it once called the mulitcam pattern -visual difference between scorpion and mulitcam...look for vertical elements like grass blades in mulitcam and some slight color differences That’s your info from the army (soon to be Air Guard) guy. I did a quick google to find the article below which talks a bit about the debacle as well https://www.google.com/amp/s/gizmodo.com/the-strange-sad-story-of-the-armys-new-billion-dollar-1616285708/amp https://ovinnovations.com/pages/scorpionmc

Good copy. I’ll reach out to him in the morning.