@Gillian Here’s your to-do list:
1. Finish your degree ASAP (extra credit hours, summer classes…keep grinding until it’s complete)

2. Maintain a good GPA (>3.0) while executing #1

3. Be the best A1C/Weather Forecaster in the Air Force. Earn strong EPRs and letters of recs from your supervisors. Let them know what your goals are and show…

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A guy in my first F-15 squadron was hired from the B-1 community, so definitely possible. Age won’t be a factor because you’re not attending UPT. The experience you’ll get in a stealth mission coupled with T-38 flight time will transition well into the 5th gen fighter communities.

If selected, you would likely skip T-6s and go straight to T-38s.

Yes, technically, you just need a squadron to like you enough to submit all the waivers on your behalf, and you’re in. Unfortunately, as you pointed out, you have quite a few cards stacked against you, so you need them to like you A LOT!

It sounds like you’d be 35 at the earliest…

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Each fighter squadron is different. The members of each respective hiring board within those squadrons change yearly, meaning different priorities, biases, etc. The point is, what I’m about to say are generalities but will at least provide a baseline.

A typical fighter squadron will receive 100-300 UPT applications for 1-2 available…

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Just about anything is “possible.” but your situation is pretty unique so it’s unlikely you’ll find too many black-and-white answers. If hired, the AF would do an evaluation of your flying background to determine which training pipeline you’d go down.

Here are a few challenges:
1. Did you fly T-45s prior to the V-22?

You’re a rated pilot, but your…

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