Any ideas on where I might find this info out? I've heard some odd stories out there about reserve commitments getting mixed up, lost, changed, etc. I did a 2 for 1, but my profile on vMPF is showing N/A for service obligation. On a second note, I'm trying to track down my "Official" reserve ADSC. It helped me that I had a letter from the Reserve unit I planned on joining, as well as a well-thought out personal letter stating why I wanted to PC to this particular unit and why it was good for the AF and the USAFR. For all you potential PC'ers out there, contact the PC office at Randolph, they're all pretty helpful with it. In addition, I thought you could only apply for one at a time. So, I applied, VERY SPECIFICALLY SO THE MPF PEOPLE WOULD NOT F THIS UP (all caps for those of you thinking of applying) for "normal" Palace Chase so that the decision would be made at the Pentagon. If I had done "Force Shaping" then the decision maker was the PC office, which would rubber stamp whatever my functional manager recommended - which would have been a resounding "no," which I found out after I called him and before I sent in my application. LJ, are you sure about that? I did a "normal" PC and my approval authority was the SECAF personnel office at the Pentagon. If you really want to grab a pair, you can get out. Apply under force shaping and the decision maker is someone in the Pentagon and PC is decided by Randolph. Remember there are 2 programs out there: force shaping is a HQ USAF administered program and PC is an AFPC run program. I'm making 3k/month in the USAFR and another 1500 from UPS. Not putting people through every single day of T-6 training saves huge amounts of money and time, but more importantly allows us to train a world-class helicopter pilot while freeing up fixed-wing training slots.I did it this past summer. The beauty of these helo paths is that we can free up 60-80 UPT fixed-wing slots a year - that’s not small chicken. The guys that went through the civilian school showed up at Fort Rucker, flew a check-ride, and on that very first ride, five of the seven passed! We are showing that we can train new pilots in lots of different ways. “Those who went straight to Rucker and had no other experience and no T-6 rides had very little clue when they arrived, but after six months they were pretty good. “We have five courses in varying states,” comments Wills. Experiments have been run with sending students straight to the TH-1H Huey at Rucker, and other groups have trained with a civilian contractor before heading to the TH-1. MONTGOMERY GI BILL KICKER Full Time Student (12 credits or more) 350. (MING-STAP) MONTGOMERY GI BILL Full Time Student (12 credits or more) 392.00 per Month. Traditionally, students have flown the T-6 before moving to helicopters, but Helicopter Training Next ultimately accelerates their path to training on helicopters at Fort Rucker in Alabama. We’ll pay 14,400 a year of your tuition for in state Michigan university, college, or community college. The USAF is overhauling its rotary-wing track too. Its important to work your timing out so youll be signed up for UPT before you turn 30 years old. A lot of students have civilian flying experience when they join the air force, and this is the perfect way to accelerate them through training, and this program is especially good for the Air National Guard and the Air Force Reserves when the students have existing pilot experience.” The ANG typically hires pilots a year in advance so, if you are selected, you would be attending Undergraduate Pilot Training (UPT) in about a year. Two more of these classes are on the way, and we really believe in the program. With UPT 2.5 we have been able to create T-1 capacity in the short term. They caught on really quickly and by the end of the program, our check pilots reported they were indistinguishable from an ordinary T-1 pilot who had previously completed T-6s. They flew really well, although as you would expect their airmanship and experience were lacking at the beginning of the program. “They look exactly the same as any other T-1 student pilot, except they didn’t fly the T-6 at all. “Fundamentally, in seven months versus the usual 12 months we graduated seven of the eight, and the last student will graduate imminently,” Wills explained.
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