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Academy Time Credit Before graduation from USAFA the personnel folks created a new pay-date for me due to the fact that my Academy time counts as inactive reserve time after I graduated. I have a first day of enlistment, a pay-date, and a commissioning date which are all different. The pay date...

A Direct Entry Graduate's Take IMHO... On average direct entry priors have trouble going from the Operational Air Force straight into a college/ service academy environment. There's a lot of reasons and effects of the transition, but USAFA BCT and four degree year is better at taking...

Swimming There was a 25m underwater (no breathing) swim too. You have a year to learn to swim and you'll have plenty of new friends to help. I knew a kid that scored perfect on the PFT, but couldn't swim. He read a book on how to swim to pass the AFSOC entry test. He did just fine. It's ironic...

Congrats and PCSing Congrats to those who made it in. I don't remember exactly what the deal was with moving my stuff to the Academy. I think I DITY/ PPM moved my stuff to my home of record. There isn't much room for extra stuff on the hill as fourth classmen, so bringing your awesome dorm...

Cadet Pay & Stuff At the P School, or just the P, you'll get exactly what you would get if you were still enlisted. Once you become a cadet on the hill, you'll pay back all the money they charge you for your initial issue of stuff, and then you will receive normal cadet pay. Cadet pay was 800...

Two went back and one separated. I don't know how the process works, but your AOC gets a say in what happens after you choose to leave.

How bad do you want it? Here's the deal. Don't quit! I had to watch three great prior-enlisted cadets pack their bags because they came from the "Operational Air Force," and expected it to follow them. Humility will be a strength, and its better for the group to learn what is being taught...

From a prior enlisted USAFA grad The Air Force does not see enlisted service as a means to an end. If you enlist, make that commitment expecting to serve your first 4 or 6 years. The LEAD program is a bonus opportunity that only a few know about and less get to take advantage. Stay in the...

Overweight and underweight basics get a daily dose of ensure or some equivalent to keep them from losing too much weight in BCT. Some big guys wouldn't drink it to lose the weight on purpose, but they'd take heat for not maintaining healthy weight loss when they got weighed each week (NBD). You...

It's the name of the program that brings enlisted troops from the operational air force into the admissions process for the Academy. The MOC nomination is exchanged for a squadron commander nomination, and then from there the process is the same.

Two Reasons USAFA gives you access to more faculty and staff that have been in your shoes as a young officer. Standing on the football stadium turf beneath the Thunderbirds' with 1000 fellow second lieutenants.

Enlisted at USAFA The fall before 2010 inprocessed there was a letter from the CSAF asking enlisted airmen to apply to the academy, and the number of priors increased. Even with the increase we had less than 50 priors total with 17 direct entry. I was one of the direct entry and we were told...

PRK waiver After the surgery and the post-op checks finish there's a waiver that allows us to fly with PRK. It wasn't just about improved vision the waiver is the doc saying that we're safe to fly. Regardless what kind of surgery happens the process to get the waiver should be set-up before hand.

Prior E Application Tips The selection is based on your total package. You need to look good on paper, but your commander probably wouldn't have signed your nomination form if you didn't. Your ALO interview and your writing sample are the things you have control over. You have control over your...

Prior E Questions I'm a Prior E Academy Grad what do you wanna know?