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93d FS World Famous Makos 2022 UPT Board MOVED UP to Aug 6-7 2022 - APPs due to 93FSMakoUPThiring@gmail.com No Later Than 6 June 2022. Send us your Champions. Good Luck!

FYSA. Send your Champions to South Beach and the Florida Keys! Makos are hiring again after a nearly 3 year hiring stop. Apps due 1 Aug for a Nov Board. Good Luck! Blood in the Water! Nov 2022 Mako UPT Hiring Announcement.pdf

Glad to hear he is ok. Guess that dispels the rumor that if/when you pull the handle, a video from the CSAF pops up on the MFD and says, "No, no buddy, you try harder."

Got 100 of both of these made by Progspec and have almost sold all of them in 3 months. Great quality and good service. Got a few left if anyone wants a championship caliber tab.

For any and all you Jayhawks lurking out there I got some Shit Hot Morale/Pen Pocket Patches made: They are going for $3 for one or $5 for 2/both to offset the costs of having to buy 100 of each and supplement my guard Lt income. Feel free to email me at flyinjahawk@gmail.com or PM me and we can exhange contact info. Holler

Does anybody know if we can carpool to IFS? I was planning on riding with a bro from AMS but one of my friends who just graduated a class or two ago said this is a bad idea. He carpooled and said if he hadn't gotten lucky and finished the same day as his ride they were going to make his ride leave and force him to buy a plane ticket home?...sounds ridiculous to me and I'd rather not drive my poor guardbum Honda out there.

Do they want people creasing the sleeves on the ABUs? I just got mine back from the local alteration shop and the high speed sewing machine driver starched and pressed my uniform including ironing the old BDU creases in the sleeves. Should I keep them or iron them out.

Read through this awesome thread but didn't see much about graduation/commissioning...I was in AFROTC before getting out and in the guard and have some friends and old cadre that want to come see me commission along with my family. I'm trying to figure out if I need to have a commissioning ceremony back at KU like some of the Dec/Summer ROTC grads do or if I can just save myself the headache and tell anyone who can make to come to Tyson-McGee. 1. Is there a commissioning ceremony? 2. Is there a limit to how many people can come? 3. Is there any gouge out there or info to give to the family about when to show up, where to stay, where to go, etc? (I know there might be some info on the afportal but my damn CAC doesn't work yet so I have yet to get a chance to get on there.) Thanks and just fyi I hear if you are in the upcoming 16 Mar AMS and don't show up with a Mustache for Mustache March you automatically get sent home.

Do non prior pilot selects get anything like this? That would be the tits if so...

I want to be full time. My dream would be to be AGR or be a Trad Pilot with a GS job in our around the unit. Big F*ucking 2! I was in ROTC and all of my bros are either in or getting ready for UPT as AD guys and stuff is kind of gloomy. Like every other wide-eyed, over motivated SNAP I have wanted to be a fighter pilot since I can remember and refuse to see the obvious that UAVs are the future and can probably do everything a task saturated, formation flying, g limited human fighter pilot can do. Heavies will stayed manned for a very long time if not forever but fighters will most likely not. With AD where it is, I kind of see the guard (besides dudes who get lucky enough to pull Raptor slots) as the last bastion of the fighter pilot. The future is bleak but I guess I view myself as lucky as I may be getting my dream in before it isn't possible anymore. I asked these questions both in my interview to the higher ups and around to the rest of the dudes multiple times. From what I understand as a new hire who also knows the answers to these questions may be sugar coated, this unit is in a great spot. And that is supposedly a quote from the 0-7 overseeing the unit. They actually got an increase in the number of jets from BRAC and from what I can gather/hope is they would be given A-10Cs if Vipers were to be phased out before the guard starts getting 35s in the 2020s (projected). They just got back from a deployment were the CSAF or one of his people supposedly gave them some award basically saying there were the best unit in their AEF rotation or at their deployed location or something of the sort. I heard they didn't miss a sortie (if that is possible) and their maintenance guys where getting their jets done and going over and showing the AD maintainers how to fix the AD jets. It makes since, in the guard, you do your speciality and your speciality only. Whether it be flying, deploying, turning wrenchs, doing paperwork etc you do it (sts) with the same guys for 10-15+ years. These people are hands down experts in whatever it is they do. Even talking with some AD guys I have met and stayed in contact with through being in ROTC; when I told them I got hired by this unit they had all heard of it and told me it is an awesome unit and I should be stoked. With all that said I know this is just hear-say and shit can change. I guess my opinion is that it isn't worth trying to predict the AF...it is gonna do what it is gonna do and if something bad happens I will just cross that bridge with the best attitude possible. At this point, the guard seems like a better option than AD and most of the AD fighter pilots I have talked to since getting hired have either been on their way to the guard or trying to set themselves up to palace chase at some point. I don't have a family. I am only 22 years old but I want to have a family in the future. The guard is hands down better for this. You can post up, fly, go TDY, Deploy all from the same place for your entire career. You don't have to take a queep job unless you want it and if you do you still fly, deploy etc. From my understanding the guard treats it's pilots correctly and uses their expertise and experience instead of moving them around every 3 years to re-learn everything and re-learn the tendencies of the guys you fly with. That is the big, scary question. The guard is a better gig as far as quality of life, flying, etc. IMO but it is scary that I might have to find a job in 5 years after AMS, IFS, UPT, IFF, RTU, and MQT. I was in ROTC and planned on being AD; that didn't work out and I think it happened for a reason - The Guard is the best kept secret in the AF and I am now guaranteed a viper as long as I STFU, work hard, don't F up and graduate in the top 1/2 of my class in UPT. My college experience and mindset from the day I graduated high school has been focused on a career flying and fighting in the AF. I have a CDL and a Communication Studies degree. I don't want to have to get a civilian job, but to me, the Viper slot and the life in the guard is worth this possible negative to my situation. Hopefully, I will only have to get a civilian job for a few years before getting an AGR job or a GS job on the side as a Trad Pilot. I want to give back to the unit that is giving me my dream shot and I don't know the in's and out's of transfering units but I will be willing to apply to other units and/or pointy nose airframes in order to get one of those AGR or GS spots. So wow, lots of good stuff. Keep it going. If you couldn't tell by the above book, I am choosing the guard viper slot. Having to answer these questions is helping me feel better about my choice. AD dudes knock me back down to earth if I am off base here. Guard dudes "2" me if I'm right.

I know what I am going to do but am just curious to see what all of you would do in this situation...Got picked up off the street for a guard viper pilot slot and just found out my OTS recruiter rolled over an FY08 OTS Pilot slot application to the just released 0901 OTS Pilot Board. Curious to see what those of you on AD, in the guard, in ROTC/OTS, on casual etc would do in this situation. Nothing like having great options though it is a tough choice and kind of begs the question as to which is the better gig in today's world...guard or AD. Opinions wanted...talk it up

haha nice...I seriously thought this thread was a joke when I saw it in my inbox. a_thomas if you are serious there is a lot of stuff you can find online to help shave your time once you start getting in better shape...i.e. breathing/stride techniques. My suggesting for first getting back in shape would be to try and find places to play other aerobic activities like basketball or football or even try and go swimming...just try and keep things fun and different so you don't resort back to another 4 year binge on xbox and world of warcraft or whatever game that is my roommate plays all night instead of going to the rec with me to hoop.

Is there a way to earn an ENJJPT slot or a specific way to go about requesting it? I had an AD ENJJPT slot as a ROTC guy before being shown the door on some major BS against my CC's recomendation. I would still like to go there to experience the larger syallbus, foriegn aspect, and to meet up with some ROTC bros that will be there by the time I would arrive. Thanks for the help. Glad to be on my way to being a part of the guard brethren on this site!

The last rule is usually don't read the rules... oh and lots of jeremiah weed and no girlfriends/fiances/wives