AspiringPilot
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I'm entering my detachment as an AS250 transfer and I'm a bit worried about FTP since I will be taking a intensive courseload during my FTP semester. At my previous school I was friends with a AS300 who talked about how poorly he was treated as an AS200 in FTP, such as being constantly berated by POC for tiny mistakes, getting assigned repetitive and mundane tasks to the point of affecting their grades, and being told to do things that contradict policies by POC and getting yelled at by said POC if they don't do them (Or by other POC if they do) with cadre almost completely absent and letting the POC run the whole FTP process. The POC were also pretty huge ****s throughout the process and he complained that it was apparent that they would set some GMC up to succeed and others to fail.
I'm just curious if this experience is the norm within AFROTC or if this is an extreme case - if so, I'd be curious to hear about how FTP usually goes and what I can do to prepare myself for it. I am not afraid to go through FTP and LEAD no matter what and understand that this is a necessary step on my way to earning my commission as an Air Force officer, but since the only thing I know about FTP is what he told me, I'm definitely not looking forward to it.
I'm just curious if this experience is the norm within AFROTC or if this is an extreme case - if so, I'd be curious to hear about how FTP usually goes and what I can do to prepare myself for it. I am not afraid to go through FTP and LEAD no matter what and understand that this is a necessary step on my way to earning my commission as an Air Force officer, but since the only thing I know about FTP is what he told me, I'm definitely not looking forward to it.
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