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Rycast, I am in a similar situation to you, I am currently a Junior in college and will be applying to the OTS rated board next January. I have talked to my recruiter recently and what he told me is that you ARE allowed to only apply for pilot and you can reapply as many times as you want. He does recommend putting the other rated jobs on your list because there is a higher chance of being selected (especially RPA right now). Luckily my recruiter doesn't care about the number of people he gets in and is more interested in helping people. Your recruiter may have told you that you need to apply to all rated jobs because you are more likely to get selected which would be better for him. I'm not saying that this is definitely the case, and I don't pretend to be an expert on the subject since I've only just started the process but I thought I'd share what I had been told. IF what my recruiter told me is true than what I'd say is that it can't hurt to apply for only pilot in June with your current scores. If you don't get picked up apply again in January and by then you can have retaken the TBAS and maybe get some more flight hours. Best of luck,

I might have misread and mispoken...with the active duty rated board (i.e. guys who are already commissioned), there is the scenario of declining a rated position and not being able to apply again. I am not sure if that also applies to people applying for OTS and a subsequent rated spot (as I think you are, now that I've re-read your post). Check with your recruiter about that, I'm not sure how it works from that side. And like viper said, retake the TBAS, and do whatever you can to get flight hours and things to increase numbers. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Retake the TBAS. I did mine in 2010 so the format was different but my PCSM went from a 9 to 80 from the retake. I didn't really understand a couple of the parts and bombed. After going home and thinking a kit and practicing some of the parts I did a lot better. If you got cash and time to burn get the PPL as well. Active duty is much more concerned with the numbers than where they came from.

In the past, you were able to only list the positions you wanted to apply for. If you weren't picked up for pilot, they could offer you nav/abm/RPA and you could decline with no prejudice and reapply the next year. In the last year or two, the application process was changed so that you are now required to list all 4. If you are selected for any of them and turn it down, you cannot apply for the rated board again. Obviously that makes the decision process much more difficult. Personally, I would get the flight hours to up your PCSM as much as possible. I would get involved with as much as possible to make the 215 as strong as it can be (I think the format of the 215 has been changed in the past couple years too, so I may not be up to speed on the current format) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk