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I called my recruiter and he looked in the system for me to find out. I never got a phone call or email.

I think that it comes down to wanting to spend the time/$ to keep up the GA flying bug. For example some dudes in the squadron I was hired at split shares for a float plane between 3 or 4 dudes. After UPT I definitely can see myself spending some cash to get my ASES so I can go fly around with them - there is a float plane fly-in north of Travis AFB every year and it just seems like a cool way to experience Cascadia/the west coast especially after I revert to being traditional reservist. I think I can get my ASES at Kenmore Air in Seattle for ~$1800 bucks - 6 flights and checkride included, kind of expensive but sounds fun. I went to school at UW in Seattle and Caravans and Beavers on floats were non-stop on steep approaches into Lake Union, it was awesome to watch in the evening. I can see flying 172s getting really old after flying jets though. But things like tailwheel, maybe flying a Pitts, etc all sound interesting to me.

I think that if even a team like the Seahawks (who have history of taking players with some issues off the field in stride due to culture and Pete Carroll's locker room leniency so long as they get it together to play football and get along) passed on CK is telling. Regardless of talent, and even regardless of his kneeling on the field, he obviously didn't take getting his job back very seriously. Didn't he show up to talks in Miami with a Fidel Castro t-shirt? At least where a collar, prick. There are career backup QBs struggling for minimum salaries with a wife and kids and prepared to move to their fourth or fifth shitty city and fourth or fifth shitty team. I guess the minimum salary is still hundreds of thousands, but still.

Yep, sorry - I'll PM that next time.

You may hear lots of no's along the way but it only takes a few yes's to keep moving forward

No problem! You'll get in somewhere

Haha my bad, I'll send that as a PM next time. Too personal? I get kind of excited when I relive that process. I really need to focus on something else while waiting for my OTS date.

I am from the Seattle area and was hired at Travis AFB in NorCal. I had some contacts in the squadron there (My dad was a C-17 pilot and he had friends from UPT at Travis flying in the reserves) so that got my foot in the door once I asked my dad if he knew anybody flying the KC-10. To prep for my interview, I found lots of questions from here in the forums, and some from airline interviews, and made a big "interview script" on google docs and just sat for an hour a few nights a week doing some "creative writing" in response to those questions. For the "tell me about yourself question" I got to the point where I knew it so well that I could add pauses and expressions into my response to make it casual and natural - I think it's the one question they expect you to have a sort of canned answer to - but want it to be from the heart. For the other questions I came up with some bullet points/trigger words so that I could make answers come quick depending on how they framed the question and stay on my toes. I think I ended up making it 6-7 pages long, I definitely over-prepared but it really paid off. If you want to PM me I'm happy to share. Another tip I have is to practice answering your questions sitting in a chair at a table, in your suit jacket or something. This helped me control my body language and fidget less, and get used to wearing a suit jacket - lots of buttons and pockets to learn to ignore. Even things like how to unbutton/button your suit jacket will make you feel like the guy in Wolf of Wall Street going in to the interview room. I'm no expert but it worked for me - I got hired at C--5s and KC-10s Friday and Saturday back to back and ended up backing out of a C-17 gig. I know I'll get shit for that - but honestly the KC-10 tugs at my heart a ton and I know that the C-17 will be around for longer than the KC-10 and that opportunity will still be there in the future. I couldn't see myself flying the C-5, the crews on trips are really big and you end up logging lots of "other" time instead of PIC/SIC. KC-10 also goes more places. Plus, it's a DC-10. However, I owe a lot to the C-5 interview for helping me go in the next day confidently - also they are super top notch guys, just not what I saw myself committing to in the end. They stood me and two other interviewees up at the end and hired all three of us on the spot - it was actually really special. Made the decision I had the next few days really tough, but I felt really lucky to get hired two places in one go.

Wow nice job! I've met a few Herk guys who got hired without PPL's but their units said that they wanted to see them solo at least before they would submit to AFRC. Everybody I got hired with had PPLs. Congrats on that score! With some flight hours I bet you'd be an easy hire at most units.

That's awesome! Your score will go up quick the more you fly, if you continue your flight training to 50-60 hours I bet you'd be even more attractive to a lot of ANG/Reserve units in addition to the AD board than you already are. You should definitely keep putting apps in different places - I had my heart set on a C-17 unit and ended up seeing a KC-10 do a touch n go while I was eating lunch after a doctor appt - I called the Travis KC-10 reserves and ended up loving the people and the base and have since been hired. You never know what will sell you on a unit without visiting them or just sending in an app or email and starting a conversation.

Figure I'll chip in since I went mid-June. I am off the street/civlian - Travis travelpay/CTO was great and got me through O'Hare to Dayton no problem. I had to change flights home twice and it was no problem. If you're not prior-service - you likely WILL NOT be in the on-base billeting hotel. There is a hotel just outside the gate called the Sunset Inn that you'll be at with other Reserve/Guard baby types. I found this out at 2am after trying to check in at on-base billeting (Wright Patterson Inn). My hotel room was great - I didn't eat breakfast there (I had to fast multiple days) but everything else was great. I'm 22 so meeting some ROTC people near my age was awesome - also the ANG/Reserve applicants I met were great too - I even met somebody who was also hired to fly KC-10s in the squadron across the building from me. My group was about 75%/25% ROTC and Reserve/ANG sponsored UPT people. Our liaison was incredibly nice - we had like 30 VHS movies to choose from (Bond, Indiana Jones, We Were Soldiers, even some Disney classics I think haha) and freedom to get food off or on base when time allowed between appointments. The biggest thing to remember is attitude. You will be rushed from little office to little office to check things off on your appointment cover sheet. But, it's all in the interest of time and I found that everybody (even the grumpier seeming ones) were focused on helping you get a checkmark and leave on time. I got extra coaching on things like the PFT and depth perception if I asked and had a good attitude. In the weeks prior I joked to my friends and family that I'd be fine unless "I had some heart thing I didn't know about" and SURE ENOUGH they found something on my EKG. I had to wear a Haltor monitor (like a vest of sensors for 24hrs) and do an echocardiogram AND treadmill stress test. I ended up being there until Thursday afternoon. I had a good attitude and kept my stress levels down and didn't stay up googling waiver reqs and statistics and focused on learning what I could from my flight doc and specialists. I ended up getting waived for PVC's/arrythmia. I'm so grateful for them taking care of me - especially when 25 others were breezing through their tests and heading home. Found out later that my waiver was a actually a tough one to pass - so remember attitudes and impressions as well as being able to talk about your medical history comfortably will get you over some hurdles.

Anybody else have their sponsored UPT apps in for the Sept AFRC board? Based on the timelines I've been seeing - should I be optimistic about an OTS date as early as December? Hoping I hear back by the end of the month or early October. Currently: Hired: Feb 2017 FC1: June 2017 Package to AFRC: Just recently!