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In-processing day

Riddller

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Made it to IFS today. Got here about 1300. The website says be here between 1200 and 1800 in one spot, and between 1200 and 1500 in another. There's nothing bad or good about showing up early or late. I guess I wold reccomend early. Showed up in blues after my short trip from C-Springs (I DEFINITELY reccomend staying the night somewhere close by before driving in in your blues).

The people were very nice, and the one officer I've met, our MTO (Military Training Officer), was very cool and helpful. No uniform inspections, but make sure you look sharp to avoid notice. In-processing took about 15 minutes, was on an individual basis, and consisted of getting your room, filling out a quick medical questionairre, and getting a DOSS ID badge to wear around everywhere. They are VERY serious about security here.

After that, we moved all of our stuff in, we were free until dinner at 1730. There was supposed to be an in-brief at 1830, but our MTO made the 1730 dinner (in blues) mandatory so he could do it there.

Rooms are nice. Kinda small, but you have a little fridge, microwave, DVD player, TV, your own bathroom/shower/bathtub. I've been in worse. EVERYTHING here is in the same building. You literally could spend your whole time at IFS without ever leaving the building except for flying.

There's like 6 other people here I know, from school, ASBC, my base, even one of my CTAs! Don't expect to get here and not know anybody.

We were told that everybody, no matter what flight experience, will be coming through here within three months (we've got two w/ PPLs in my class) and all the CSOs (Navs) will be coming here within 6 months.

We were also told the current washout rate was running at 10% to 15%. Study hard!!

And one more thing: They don't block anything on your free internet, but they DO monitor it. So.... NO PORN!!!

EVERY DAY starts at 0600 according to the schedule, and we're in blues again tomorrow. PFT in the afternoon, and they don't like it if you don't get at least an 80.

Any questions, feel free to post coments!

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10-15% washout rate - what the heck for? It can't be that hard. Can it?

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Yup, sure is. Most of the washouts are for flying they tell us. They rarely have people washout for academics.

They explain the maneuver, demonstrate the maneuver, then give you a limited number of tries to execute the maneuver within standards.

Don't mess it up!!

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Yup, sure is. Most of the washouts are for flying they tell us. They rarely have people washout for academics.

They explain the maneuver, demonstrate the maneuver, then give you a limited number of tries to execute the maneuver within standards.

Don't mess it up!!

Ok, that makes sense. I'd be interested in hearing about the completion standards of the manuevers when you get to that step and how similar they are to getting your civilan PPC. And hey, thanx again for doing this - helps a lot of us follow on pukes out a ton. Later!

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