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Awesome, thanks a lot!

That's where I've been looking, but it still has the last board as the next board. It says at the bottom to contact the flying board for up-to-date info, but it doesn't say how to get in contact with the flying board.

I'm sure this has been posted before, but I can't seem to find it. Where can I find the active duty pilot board dates?

Is there any word on when Moody might go J's?

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I currently have the MGIB and I'm looking into advancing my ratings. I currently just have my PPL, but I'd like to get a commercial rating and pick up an instrument along the way. I've been reading a lot on the VA website and random postings I found through google, but it's pretty confusing. Does anyone have experience in the best way to use the GI Bill toward flight training? What I've gathered is that the MGIB will pay a higher amount, but it will only pay 60%. Then the Post 9/11 will pay a set amount, but it covers the entire training up to that point. My goal is to get my instrument rating this summer, commercial by the end of the year/early 14, and eventually a CFI. I'd like to use the GI benefits as efficiently as possible so I don't break the bank. I have a Part 141 school nearby, which I'm in contact with and they said they have a lot of people use their GI Bills there. Over $200/hr for an ifr-rated plane with an instructor is just incredibly pricey. I paid $65/hr for the plane and $15/hr for the instructor in college when I got my PPL. Unfortunately there isn't a college nearby that I can enroll in to extend the benefits and get the required hours due to that. Thanks!

Alright, thanks guys. Yeah, it's down until later this month I think. I'm not too familiar with what that affects. I'll just wait until it's back up and I'll shoot them an e-mail if it isn't up by then.

Has anyone completed any advanced education and sent their transcripts to AFIT? According to their website, you just send your transcripts to their address or e-mail address and they will update your record on vMPF. It's been a few weeks now since I sent my stuff over and nothing is updated. I did get an e-mail the day after I sent the transcripts saying AFIT had downloaded my transcript. What kind of time frame have you guys seen for them to update it?

As a person with drones on my list for my next assignment, I don't think drone operators deserve the Air Medal. Drones definitely have their place and make a huge difference, but the drone operator is never in any danger. They never see true combat. I think the new medal has its place for drone and space operators, but I don't think it should be nearly as prestigious as they made it. It should be a much lower medal being nowhere near the purple heart or the Air Medal. Just my two cents.

I had two training reports and a blank duty history. There is an appeal process I'm going through, but I'll already be put in for the ABZ board by the time I find out how the SSB went. Does anyone know how much an ABZ promotion affects your career? If I have to go to that one and I get picked up, is it going to look bad for trying to put in for schools, cross-training, or especially the major board? What about a lt col board?

I'm not a bomber guy. I'm on an AMC platform. All the bomber guys I know got picked up except for a couple. I'm going to try appealing the board as quickly as I can once I find out what happened to my training report.

I think I found the problem. A training report was never done from the FTU. I graduated in the beginning of April and the board met in July. Unless I'm going crazy, a training report should have been completed and sent in to th board. All I had that went to the board was an osb, prf, asbc training report, and Pensacola training report.

In my opinion yes. People at the top of their classes shouldn't be passed over when people who wash back in training get selected.

I'd like to say what airframe it is, but I don't want to release it publicly like this just for the confidentiality of the other guys in it. The big thing for me is that I am totally fine getting passed over for others who are better than me and deserve it. I am absolutely not ok getting passed over while people who washed back in flight school are selected. If you wash back and graduate at the bottom of your class, you should not be promoted over guys at/near the top of their classes in Pensacola and the FTU. Promotion Boards are based on performance. Retention Boards are for career fields. Also, the reply about <30 days for seeing your PRF. We were called into the training sq office to see it(and sign something I thought) the day it was sent in. Just more to appeal it on? Right now, my "justifications" for appeal are that we believe something administratively went wrong based on every single person in the schoolhouse being nonselected and that I saw my PRF less than 30 days from the submission. I'm trying to think of how to justify asking my sq/cc to take it up the chain. Saying "wash backs made it and I didn't" doesn't really sound good enough.

That's great info. Thanks a lot. I'm going to talk to my sq/cc first thing Tuesday morning about what happened and I'll still go through these steps either way. If something was screwed up, this process should catch it. Thanks!

No. There is a 100% nonselection with at least one FTU. I know because I am a part of it. Almost everyone that dropped this airframe was in the top half of their classes out of Pensacola. That is why we believe there is some sort of mistake that occurred. We are hoping it was a paperwork issue, maybe an incomplete package or something.

So the new USAF captain board just posted their results and many of us believe there were some mistakes made. There are people who were wash backs in flight school who got promoted and others who graduated in the top half of their flight school class and top of their FTU class who were nonselected. There is a certain airframe in which everyone at that schoolhouse when the packages were sent in was nonselected. My understanding is that a promotion board cannot discriminate based on the job. A promotion board has to select based on job performance while a retention board can discriminate based on the job. Maybe there was a paperwork issue out of that FTU? Has anyone had experience on how to appeal a promotion board and what steps to take?

I graduated ROTC in '09 and the only rules were that your civil involvements had to be reported before getting on scholarship. . If you got accepted into ROTC, then your prior stuff should be fine as long as you didn't/don't lie to them. Anything that happened while you were in ROTC was on a three strike policy. We had a guy get a pilot slot who was arrested twice in college. We had another guy go to ENJJPT who was arrested once and showed up to PT drunk another time. In my opinion, ROTC upt applications are all about two things: PCSM score and commander's ranking. Get your grades, do well and be active in ROTC, and you will open a lot of doors. That's the advice I would give myself if I could do it all over again.