Air force Openings?

sr71

sr71

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Hello

I'm currently, an unemployed CFI. I've been think more and more about joining the air force. Every tells me to ensure my recruiter could ensure I have a pilot slot. How do I go about doing that? Are there anyone flight slot that anyone knows of? How hard is OTC? Would anyone recommend anything else I need to talk to my recruiter?

Thanks
 
sr71 said:
Hello

I'm currently, an unemployed CFI. I've been think more and more about joining the air force. Every tells me to ensure my recruiter could ensure I have a pilot slot. How do I go about doing that? Are there anyone flight slot that anyone knows of? How hard is OTC? Would anyone recommend anything else I need to talk to my recruiter?

Thanks
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Here's a good starting point. http://forums.jetcareers.com/military-pilots/93994-aspiring-military-aviators.html

Nothing is guaranteed, but as far as a "guaranteed" pilot slot (read: do everything right, to the highest level, etc.), you can certainly know beforehand. Just call around about UPT hiring boards.

Lots of good knowledge on this forum. (Just today I was smacked in the forehead about USCG aviation knowledge - thanks guys!).
 
sr71 said:
Hello

I'm currently, an unemployed CFI. I've been think more and more about joining the air force. Every tells me to ensure my recruiter could ensure I have a pilot slot. How do I go about doing that? Are there anyone flight slot that anyone knows of? How hard is OTC? Would anyone recommend anything else I need to talk to my recruiter?

Thanks
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You fail the first test. Use the search function.

:D
 
You also fail for using the word ensure twice in a sentence..... with 3 words in between. Also, take a demerit for saying "OTC." Over the counter? Sweet.

Kidding. Search. Get on baseops. Learn. Good luck!
 
frog_flyer said:
You also fail for using the word ensure twice in a sentence..... with 3 words in between. Also, take a demerit for saying "OTC." Over the counter? Sweet.

Kidding. Search. Get on baseops. Learn. Good luck!
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However if you go on Baseops do not repost your original post or your tenure there will be very short.
 
OTS is not plesant, but it's something you have to put up with if you want to wear wings (unless you want to go through a 4-year commissioning program). Therefore, if you want it badly enough, it really doesn't (or shouldn't) matter how difficult it is. Not that it's really that hard--I guess the hardest part (for me) was that feeling that you're basically being institutionalized for 12 weeks with very limited opportunities to get away from the training environment. I was in the Air Force nearly five years before I had to use any of what I learned at OTS, because I never really supervised anyone until I became a captain.

SERE training was even less plesant, but you have to suffer through it if you want to fly in the AF--that's just the program.
 
germb747 said:
OTS is not plesant, but it's something you have to put up with if you want to wear wings (unless you want to go through a 4-year commissioning program). Therefore, if you want it badly enough, it really doesn't (or shouldn't) matter how difficult it is. Not that it's really that hard--I guess the hardest part (for me) was that feeling that you're basically being institutionalized for 12 weeks with very limited opportunities to get away from the training environment. I was in the Air Force nearly five years before I had to use any of what I learned at OTS, because I never really supervised anyone until I became a captain.

SERE training was even less plesant, but you have to suffer through it if you want to fly in the AF--that's just the program.
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Pshh. It's the Air Force. How hard can it be??
 
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