kbergren21
New Member
Right now I'm in a jacked up situation. I did all the hard work it took to earn a pilot slot through AFROTC and commissioned in 2006. So I attended to pilot training at Vance AFB in Feb 07 completed Phase I & II then went off to the T-1A all the way to Mission Fam. Got all the way through to having KC135 slot to Fairchild AFB. That never happened! Somehow my SQ CC got wind that I was diagnosed w/child autism back in 1986 and he flipped out over it. (Well he found out because my Flight Commander and I were having a conversation about his autistic brother and I casually mentioned it to him.)
Basically, I was put on DNIF for 2 1/2 months five flights prior to from graduating Phase III. I had to see a series a neuralogists/ [FONT="]psychiatrist [/FONT] to prove that I was not AUTESTIC!!! Yeah, a whole $3000 dollars of AF money to prove something obvious! Anyways, I got back into training after the paper per the pychiatrist's orders. Flew two 88 flights and then had to pass an 89 flight. I hooked the 89 flight and subsequently waited around another three months until they could figure out what they should do with me. I was essentially told that the AF didn't have the funds to give me enough flights to get me up to speed so they would try to cross-commision me into another flight program for another service. (Why waste $1M into a flight training asset right???) That never amounted! Instead I got orders to Pope AFB for Civil Engineering. That being said Ive got 18 months left to serve. Ill be in CE school till December and seperate from the Air Force about a year after that.
I apologize for the long story. It helps explain the situation I'm in and the questions I have to ask from experiance military aviators. I was planning on applying for Army National Guard jobs once put on inactive reserve.Would another service even want me as an aviator for them? Whats the best way to go about this? Would they even consider my Phase I & II certificates to jump into a more advance stage of training for another branch? I do have plenty of good references from flight school. Right now Im serving in the Civil Air Patrol and working on my CFI to keep my proficiencies up. Anyone have any advice on what I should do? I want to give back to the military aviation knowledge and serve in the area that I was trained in.
Basically, I was put on DNIF for 2 1/2 months five flights prior to from graduating Phase III. I had to see a series a neuralogists/ [FONT="]psychiatrist [/FONT] to prove that I was not AUTESTIC!!! Yeah, a whole $3000 dollars of AF money to prove something obvious! Anyways, I got back into training after the paper per the pychiatrist's orders. Flew two 88 flights and then had to pass an 89 flight. I hooked the 89 flight and subsequently waited around another three months until they could figure out what they should do with me. I was essentially told that the AF didn't have the funds to give me enough flights to get me up to speed so they would try to cross-commision me into another flight program for another service. (Why waste $1M into a flight training asset right???) That never amounted! Instead I got orders to Pope AFB for Civil Engineering. That being said Ive got 18 months left to serve. Ill be in CE school till December and seperate from the Air Force about a year after that.
I apologize for the long story. It helps explain the situation I'm in and the questions I have to ask from experiance military aviators. I was planning on applying for Army National Guard jobs once put on inactive reserve.Would another service even want me as an aviator for them? Whats the best way to go about this? Would they even consider my Phase I & II certificates to jump into a more advance stage of training for another branch? I do have plenty of good references from flight school. Right now Im serving in the Civil Air Patrol and working on my CFI to keep my proficiencies up. Anyone have any advice on what I should do? I want to give back to the military aviation knowledge and serve in the area that I was trained in.