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Dude...it's ASBC. Nobody cares. Just check the box, pass the stupid thing, and carry on with your life. The rest of your life you will be compared, rack & stacked, etc with dudes that might be FAR overqualified compared to you. That's life. God help you if your going to UPT and have a bunch of O-3 Nav's in your class. Or you have a former airline pilot in your class. Etc etc etc. Can't wait to hear your thoughts on those.

Fail your PT test right before your OPR is due. Get referral OPR. Fail PT test again 90 days later. CC recommends separation. Out the door you go!

I haven't heard of any pilots being asked to leave yet. If that's not the case please let me know how I can separate and get out of my ADSC.

Wow is all I have to say!

Why hasn't anybody posted about Halloween? Halloween.pdf

I do think that most guys even at my newbie level are aware that its what you do outside the cockpit that gets you promoted, weapons school, etc. Getting DG at ASBC can't hurt, no doubt about that. Most 2lts that show up here want to do a good job and get something out of it, and if you don't, why are you even here anyways? I guess the reason why I think it is hard to take stratification here super seriously is the following: 70% of the people (all ROTC accessions) here are TDY en route to their respective training bases. So, that means that for this group of LTs (myself included), it is their first time functioning in the AD environment. While doing the curriculum, etc, we are still trying to track down our pay stuff, get BAH for our families (if we have them), etc. In addition, we are still walking around looking like dip shits because TD-1 is our 1st day of active duty. The next 15% are USAFA and most ROTC guys who have most likely been on active duty and been on casual status since the August time frame, and generally know whats going on, but still haven't had time to figure everything out. The final 15% are 1st LTs that have completed their respective training, and have been at their active duty locations for a period of time. I guess to bring it all together, I'll give a personal example: My team leader is a 1st LT intel guy that has been active duty for 3 years. He works in an intel shop, gives intel briefings, etc. Most of us (especially the TDY en route LTs)obviously can't necessarily compete with someone that has that much more (relatively speaking) experience than we do. Of course he is going to ace the papers, briefings and other evals, because he's really taking a step backwards as far as his training goes. It's not that everyone else sucks a fat one, we just don't have the time/background that he does. I'm not trying to make excuses for myself and my peers, it's just kind of a fact. There are a lot of guys that just blow this whole thing off like the reasons stated above, and that obviously is a bad approach. I just think it's hard to compare us apples-to-apples with each other when the gaps in experience are so big.