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If you're being discriminated against because of your religious beliefs, consider a quick chat with both the Chaplain and MEO. I remember from week 1 of OTS that "the Air Force's default response to questions of religious accomodation is 'yes'". Or you can fudge the truth to achieve the correct result. Pick up the pills from the pharmacy, flush them down the toilet and tell the flight doc the next day "the pills didn't affect me". That would be a true statement, and you can get on with your life.

Ask the doc to show you chapter and verse the supposed regulation he's so in love with. If he refuses, inform him that your next stop is your commander's office so the two of you can have a little chat with the IG. After that, 1. Lawyer up 2. Delete Facebook 3. Hit the gym

Or since it's use operationally is voluntary and there's no way to verify if you took them since you take them at home in the evening... Sent from my SM-N920V using Tapatalk

Ditto what 2016UPT stated. Get out there now and do what you can. I interviewed with a unit summer of 2012 (age 27), received training dates summer 2013, officer school winter 2014, UPT summer 2014, graduated UPT 10 days before 30th bday in 2015. However, why it took so long to get my training dates was the Gov't shutdown. But classmates at UPT (guard/reserve side) averaged about 2 year"ish" from interview date to UPT start date. May not be what you want to hear but that's the truth. Did have a few guys over 30 at start of UPT but had age waivers (both were former aircrew and was told their bases fought to get those waivers) Mine is just one, of many, different scenarios/timeslines it took to get into UPT. Hope it helps and best of luck Note: since age isn't on your side and if you do get an interview, be sure to read through the interview questions thread on baseops. I read that front and back and all those insights are spot on with what they look for: good work ethic and good dude to hang with greatly outweigh perfect grades with shitty personality. A lot of great info on this website that I used to, luckily, get selected.

My guess is probably not on catching them. Identity theft is hard to prosecute unless you catch someone redhanded. I'd like to see the punishment raised from a short stay in prison to hanging, preferably publicly.

I'd argue it's a step back from the intent of IFS. Wasn't the origination of this entire movement to save money down the road? That if you can't hack IFS, then you probably can't hack UPT and let's save the AF some bucks by not sending you just to wash out. Now that we're helping the "slow swimmers" what the difference? If we're out to help everyone, shut the whole program down and funnel the cash back into UPT. My $.02 Same with the push for more aviators out of the Academy. The root cause was they had to return pilot slots to AFPC *gasp* and maybe some extra ROTC guys got their dream job. I'd much rather fly with someone who has worked their ass off to get a slot, then a dude who had to be "motivated" to take a pilot slot. It's not my job to motivate you. It's my job to instruct a motivated individual.