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Every time this thread revives, I come back hoping they're going to allow us to wear black t-shirts and boots again.

This is good news for us w/ tons of Amn: TL;DR - Enlisted Performance Reports are no longer required for regular Air Force Airmen in the grade of airman first class and below with less than 36 months’ Time-In-Service or Air Reserve Component Airmen below the grade of senior airman. https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1407800/air-force-saves-airmen-time-no-longer-requires-first-year-evaluations/

Everyone who actually wants the job (which is 99% of the ppl that interview) ask for feedback. Asking for feedback is & should be standard. And when you ask for feedback, don't expect to hear the magic words on what will get you the job on the next interview. Most of the time, (unless your interviewing skills are legitimately poor to subpar) your feedback will sound a lot like a high school date rejection: "we like you a lot but we liked this other dude better." And this really is because every unit is different (as what literally everyone knows already at this point) and some units will mesh with you better than others. The main thing is (insert generic inspirational quote) don't give up and keep interviewing. It will stick sooner or later.

This is probably the most important part while being on the UPT chase. I was told that your package gets you the interview and the interview gets you the job. So when I wasn't selected after an interview, I asked for feedback from the board members on my interview. Thankfully they were pretty brutal with me. It hurt my ego, but it helped immensely on later boards.

AD, AFR, and ANG all have to take the CBT course. It's 34 modules, it's not hard with a beer a few nights a week. There is an accompanying notetaker that is like 90 pages of worksheets. I did most of it. I haven't looked at it since. For the last two classes, the test on pre-reqs was somewhat diagnostic, it didn't count and it was to see how effective the pre-reqs were online and at home as opposed to spending more time on them at OTS. The facebook groups are full of non-flyers, lots of priors making the jump to the O-side of the field they were enlisted in previously, or cross training. That being said, they treat this training like grad school, or like the big turning point in their careers - and have family pressures and stuff depending on it. They have a different mindset then somebody like me who just graduated college in June and this is really more of a grow up quick and slog through it as a stepping stone to UPT. So keep that in mind when looking through the facebook groups, they're full of people stressing over what towels to bring, talking about how happy they are to have memorized the dining facility procedures 6 weeks ahead of time, and lamenting about not being able to go on runs with their dog. My main advice is get organized - buy a little file box and organized all of your paperwork, medical stuff, orders, vouchers. And for gods sakes run 2-3 times a week and do push ups and sit ups. I leave on Sunday. Feel free to PM me in a couple weeks for some inside info. :-)

Any better when it is 6.9 degrees out?

Dave are you going to expand into any other products? Trying to find some nylon strips with name and wings to put on my luggage and backpack.

Dates are in finally! Guard Prior: Interview/Hire: June 2017 Swore In: August 2017 FC1: October 2017 NGB Package Approved: January 2018 TFOT: January 2018 SERE/Water Survival: April 2018 UPT (ENJJPT): July 2018 Best of luck to everyone!

The Turd in Hand is not a decent stop.

Make sure your wife and girlfriend never meet.

The IRS doesn't play games with shitty customer service.