pwaterman
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Reply to TBAS Scoring - Best Score or Latest Score?
TBAS is latest score. AFOQT is super-scored. Info from my friend who took the TBAS a few weeks ago.
Sharky -
pwaterman replied to the discussion IFC-1 in the forum Air Force 4 weeks ago
Typically your sponsoring unit should pay for that. You wouldn’t go until after you got picked up for UPT spot.
slippinjim -
Thanks for the insight @pwaterman . It’s definitely tough to keep up with all of the changes. Here’s an article I found not too long ago on some the new UPTisms.
Undergraduate Pilot Training 2.5 Is Now Just UPT After Being Fully Implemented
Worth a read!
airandspaceforces.com
Undergraduate Pilot Training 2.5 Is Now Just UPT After Being Fully Implemented
Maj. Gen. Clark Quinn, head of the 19th Air Force, said Undergraduate Pilot Training 2.5 is fully implemented but may be tweaked.
apkvich, Allen and Ted-1 -
Finished up with UPT not too long ago. Current UPT environment seems like it is literally changing every day. At the moment, if you were to go to UPT being hired by a Guard/Res heavy unit you would likely do T-1 only track. There is a program at Vance and Columbus called XPW (Accelerated Path to Wings) and it’s a (I believe) 9 month, T-1…
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pwaterman replied to the discussion The best way a college student can go about flying in the military in the forum General Discussion 2 months ago
Reply to The best way a college student can go about flying in the military
Unfortunately there’s nothing that could guarantee anything. You never know what could get in your way that could cause something to change. I’m not too familiar with the Marine program, but have heard that if you sign your contract and later cannot become a pilot for whatever reason you’re on the hook for a job of their choice.
My advice to…
Allen -
pwaterman replied to the discussion Timing on Joining Air Force Reserve/Guard in the forum Air Force 2 months ago
Reply to Timing on Joining Air Force Reserve/Guard
No problem! Feel free to shoot me a message if you ever need help with anything!
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pwaterman replied to the discussion Timing on Joining Air Force Reserve/Guard in the forum Air Force 2 months ago
Reply to Timing on Joining Air Force Reserve/Guard
It could help you out, but I would personally recommend not doing that. You could absolutely join a guard/reserve fighter unit as a non flyer and get to know all the people around there and get hired eventually. Couple things with that to think about are that you pretty much limit yourself to that one unit, and second that you now have a 4…
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andrew-bettner and
pwaterman are now connected 3 months ago -
pwaterman replied to the discussion XPW at UPT in the forum Air Force Pilot Training (IFT, UPT, IFF, & FTU) 3 months ago
There really is no way to ‘request’ XPW prior to showing up to UPT. However, the way it has been going lately is that every XPW class will have 3-4 Guard/Res and 2-3 Active spots. Most of the Guard/Res are being non-vol’d since those studs already knew they were headed that way. Since you are Reserve once you get down to inpro with the 340th…
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pwaterman replied to the discussion Prior enlisted Marine to ANG fighter pilot in the forum Air Force 3 months ago
Reply to Prior enlisted Marine to ANG fighter pilot
I don’t have great answers for you about the VA rating or the eyesight – however having recently gone through UPT I had met at least 2 prior Marines and a few prior Navy guys who had been picked up by Guard/Reserve unit. It didn’t sound like the process of getting hired was any more or less challenging than a normal off the street hire but…
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