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If you’re selected for helicopter training by the board then that will be input by AFPC as your AFSC as long as you continue to be medically cleared. As for what they are looking for, it’s weighted the same as the ENJJPT board. Not sure if you’re a cadet but if/when you get there the above...

Seems like a bit of misinfo in here on how competitive it is. I would say just as competitive as ENJJPT and selected by board as well. There were 15 slots this year and only 10 were allocated by the helo board. The last 5 were left to the superintendent for special circumstance such as a cadet...

These were the cutoffs they communicated to our class for the Nationally Competitive Scholarships cadets can apply for. Does not include AAD, GSP, DAWN. Fulbright: at least a 3.70 Cum GPA and a Foreign Language Minor Gerhart: at least a 3.50 Cum GPA and a French Minor Harvard Kennedy School...

I know of several dozen (likely several hundred) cadets who have gotten pilot with zero flight hours. The only requirement I could see being the causal issue aside from medical is a PCSM < 10 as there were more pilot slots than volunteers this year. Seems to me like there could be more to the...

Freshmen can’t go before prog (Lesson 20). After that they can go but for the most part would have to pay their own way. Some games have contingents (typically the games we can go to by bus) where the government pays but you are also at the whim of leadership when going officially. They’d...

There’s still a lot of positions that aren’t decided when job drops happen. These include nurse, doctor, OSI, etc. Also, cadets in top 200 OPA can get their jobs moved around if they don’t get an AFSC in their top 5. Other requests are put in between drops and graduation as well that move cadets...

AM-490 was authorized for 3-degs during the Ac year last year only because 2023 didn’t have many people go through the prior summer due to COVID constraints. It’s now back to being only firsties during the academic year. There’s a chance a one-off cadet from another class could slip in but that...

The above being said, certain AFSC’s do require certain majors/college degrees. The AFOCD (linked Here) was coincidentally updated today and shows which majors are mandatory/desired for each major. Let me know if you have any more questions!

They did away with OPA ranking for rising 3-deg summer aviation last year. It’s now solely based on how you rank your preferences when the survey is sent out later this year and also about program availability.

Conduct/Aptitude probation. 2 of the five types of probation you can be on at USAFA. Although they are technically two probations they are almost always given together. It carries the same restrictions and a similar remediation process as honor probation (no civvies, no off-base, etc). As...

Current cadet, know someone that this happened to and they got 6-months Con/Ap probation. Wouldn’t be honor related since you weren’t under the code when you filled it out.

Hasn’t happened for a few years now, not just a COVID thing

@TLR2025 That should start tomorrow (Saturday) with the beginning of transition week and the ‘end’ of basic training. I know because I’m on the Wing command team for the fall.

C4C’s won’t be allowed off base (for sponsor passes or any other reason) until Parent’s Weekend aside from Doolie Day Out. Even though the chapel is closed the on-base services are still running. Base Chaplains are a good option to get an exception granted but that is usually only if the...

They’re gonna be able to use their phones from after dinner until the morning. Some squads may be more lax on this but that is the minimum official guidance until A-Day.