1st off, let me state this CLEARLY, our DS is a C300 AFROTC scholarship recipient so I am not in this today regarding scholarship boards.
I bend to the knowledge of others who are in the system now, i.e. falcon and others who post intermittently. If they already know that they were re-boarded, it means the results are out.
There is always a commonality, that they try to contact you before it will show up on the website or in your mailbox. Granted there are snoopy's over the doghouse and they check often, thus, the call or the website might happen before the envelope.
March 12th if we are talking the AFROTC world will be the hard copy. There is no way to say
ALO's have lived the AF life and understand that they can only give limited amount of info out until they are given the clear by the AF. Your child matters to them, put their allegiance is to the AF 1st. If the AF states they got XYZ, but you can't say the result, they won't. They will say, what you heard: met the board, and can expect a letter.
Don't read into that. It could mean a type 1 or mean "at this time" or mean "We at this time will not..."
It is insanely hard to go through what you are going through. Trust me in 08 I lived it. However, right now all you can do is live life, and you will regret it if you don't. The reason I say that is in 2 yrs if he goes AFROTC it will be another board for SFT, and if he doesn't get it his scholarship is in jeopardy.
As soon as you get over that board, it will be 4 weeks of silence while they are there and now how they do there will impact their career goal (AFSC).
They get home, go back to school and that whole fall semester as a jr is like what you have endured...waiting to see how they rack and stack, but this time it is not about getting money, it is about what they will do for the next 4 yrs (more for rated). Like SFT there is only 1 SHOT out! Everything is on that 1 board.
They get their AFSC and you think, okay now we can breathe! WRONG! No within a week or so they now tell you that they will go through a new DodMERB physical and this one is 1 full day. Our DS has to fly out to Wright Pat. on the military dime (we are also in VA)..3 days; 1 in, 1 out, leaves 1 day, and here they do EEGs or EKGs. So we will sit in fear for results if the AF will allow him to go to UPT. Here we will not be right outside the door of the docs office.
We are walking up to that situation in June. From there DS will have 1 more board. UPT bases.
So in essence, from 08 to 12, DS hit 4 more of these OMG moments that last months.
If he clears the DodMERB (hopefully he should since we had no waiver issues, but you never know). It still isn't over. It than becomes a yr at UPT, where if he busts a flight they can say Buh BYE. Than it becomes him going to FTU/RTU for that airframe.
In essence, when all of this is said and done. He started this path in 07 and it will be on a good day 14 when it is done.
MPO, look at it this way. Right now you are on a wooden roller coaster, you may get whiplash and want to get off, but if you survive it the next one is metal with only one loop. Each time you get off you will feel like no way can my stomach fall further down, until you hit the next one. Each time you will get off and cheer YEAH I made it, and than 30 seconds later say OH SHEAATT you want me to go on that one now?
It is worth the ride, and I know I probably scared the SHEAATT out of you, but actually, you do get to the point and say OK here we go again.
Also, the one thing for AFROTC that to me is a larger stressor than the avg student is that cgpa, because they know that it impacts them financially. Again, I have had our DS call me and say I want to drop this class because I think I am going to fail it. I tell him the same thing over and over again, don't complain, study! One time I was with him about dropping a class, he decided not to...he got a B. He buckled down and pulled it out after mid-term. The reason I say this is because as a parent it is always now going to be that balance of ROTC and academia. You now worry about them that if one goes off kilter the whole thing does.
