My son has been admitted to Purdue's professional flight program and will be doing AFROTC with hopes of becoming and AF pilot. We find your videos very helpful and informative so thank you!
You said in your video that 5 year cadets get put into a different bucket for ranking. Can you please explain what that bucket looks like? (My cadet is an engineer major/5 year program.) Thank you!
What I meant is that you will be ranked with the cadets that are graduating the same time as you. If you join with a bunch of 4 year cadets and you're a 5 year cadet you will eventually be ranked along with the cadets that graduate in whatever fiscal year you graduate. You are put int he bucket for your graduation year. I hope that makes sense.
Prior service is a benefit overall. You know about the military and you have discipline and responsibility. The 2 main problems I've seen with prior enlisted cadets are: 1. They might not be in good enough shape to handle the PT 3 times per week. 2. They don't want to put up with the AFROTC training environment. It pays off when you get a commission, but during training it does kinda suck especially when most of the other cadets are younger than you. I was prior enlisted before I joined AFROTC to get my commission back in 2002 and I had no issues. I thought it was really easy actually, but others don't want to put up with the training environment.
Is Engineering in the AF not a competitive job? What jobs beside rated johs are competitive? Thank you so much for all of this information. So valuable and hard to find.
Hi Richard. No, engineering in the AF isn't really that competitive mostly because an engineering degree is required to get an engineering job. Engineering degrees are more challenging and require difficult classes which is why we see less of those degrees. Additionally, those who do have engineering degrees might want to do something else, like fly. If you have an engineering degree and want to be an engineer in the AF then the odds are heavily in your favor. They are treated like any other non-rated job with a degree requirement. For example you can be a Civil Engineer as an AF officer, but you would have to have a civil engineering degree.
How much information is taken from the flight trainers of the flight you were in for CR? Also for EA consideration how much do tech majors get favored along with rated intent? If you fall into both categories do your chances increase even more?
@@rck3321 OK, I get you. I was trying to think what that meant and couldn't come up with anything yet there it is int he title of the video. Duh. I hadn't seen that as CR before. So you are talking about your FTO at field training and how they ranked you and how that could help/hinder your CR? It really depends on your Det commander. Some will weigh FT really heavily while others just see it as a snapshot in time and don't weigh it very heavily. The worse case is if you were ranked last in your flight. Usually there is some discipline issues if you are ranked last. That would start to taint the view your commander has of you. If you are middle of the road at FT, but perform really well at the Det otherwise, I don't think your commander would weigh the FT score very heavily when he/she is ranking you.
@@jrobion Im referring to the POC that would be in charge of a flight back at the detachment, they are called flight trainers where I am I’m not sure about other places. Would the det commander take the flight trainers views on you as well as the peer rankings into consideration or talk to flight trainers directly about you as an individual?
@@jrobion also how much does the APAS ( The one that teaches aero class and who I have midterm feedback with) have a say in your commanders ranking for PSP, and are they required to talk to the det CC about you?
@@gaiusaugustusgermanicus471 Oh really? I had no idea the numbers were that bad. I was just judging by what I've seen. I would think that the USAF would want more than 50 nurses in a calendar year. I read there are about 60,000 nurses so they aren't going to get replacements at that rate. Good luck either way.
@@jrobion yep. For nursing the averages nationally were: Minimum order of merit 65; PFA 97; GPA 3.65 something. Currently at a 3.9 GPA, 89.5 PFA(needs work) and don’t know my Order of merit obviously, but I do participate a lot in my det and they know me so hopefully it’s above average
My son has been admitted to Purdue's professional flight program and will be doing AFROTC with hopes of becoming and AF pilot. We find your videos very helpful and informative so thank you!
Thanks, I worked at Purdue for 5 years. They have a good flight program
Thank you, for your service…..
thanks man these videos are really helpful
You said in your video that 5 year cadets get put into a different bucket for ranking. Can you please explain what that bucket looks like? (My cadet is an engineer major/5 year program.) Thank you!
What I meant is that you will be ranked with the cadets that are graduating the same time as you. If you join with a bunch of 4 year cadets and you're a 5 year cadet you will eventually be ranked along with the cadets that graduate in whatever fiscal year you graduate. You are put int he bucket for your graduation year. I hope that makes sense.
How about prior service? Prior service in the navy playing part in ROTC in general.
Prior service is a benefit overall. You know about the military and you have discipline and responsibility. The 2 main problems I've seen with prior enlisted cadets are: 1. They might not be in good enough shape to handle the PT 3 times per week. 2. They don't want to put up with the AFROTC training environment. It pays off when you get a commission, but during training it does kinda suck especially when most of the other cadets are younger than you.
I was prior enlisted before I joined AFROTC to get my commission back in 2002 and I had no issues. I thought it was really easy actually, but others don't want to put up with the training environment.
Is Engineering in the AF not a competitive job? What jobs beside rated johs are competitive? Thank you so much for all of this information. So valuable and hard to find.
Hi Richard. No, engineering in the AF isn't really that competitive mostly because an engineering degree is required to get an engineering job. Engineering degrees are more challenging and require difficult classes which is why we see less of those degrees. Additionally, those who do have engineering degrees might want to do something else, like fly. If you have an engineering degree and want to be an engineer in the AF then the odds are heavily in your favor.
They are treated like any other non-rated job with a degree requirement. For example you can be a Civil Engineer as an AF officer, but you would have to have a civil engineering degree.
@@jrobion I would love to go for a rated job in the AF with I was of age. When I graduate, I will be 35yrs old. Thank you for all the information.
How much information is taken from the flight trainers of the flight you were in for CR? Also for EA consideration how much do tech majors get favored along with rated intent? If you fall into both categories do your chances increase even more?
I'm not sure what CR is. Is that a new thing? I've been out of ROTC since May 2020 so I'm not sure what that is.
@@jrobion commanders ranking*
@@rck3321 OK, I get you. I was trying to think what that meant and couldn't come up with anything yet there it is int he title of the video. Duh. I hadn't seen that as CR before.
So you are talking about your FTO at field training and how they ranked you and how that could help/hinder your CR? It really depends on your Det commander. Some will weigh FT really heavily while others just see it as a snapshot in time and don't weigh it very heavily. The worse case is if you were ranked last in your flight. Usually there is some discipline issues if you are ranked last. That would start to taint the view your commander has of you.
If you are middle of the road at FT, but perform really well at the Det otherwise, I don't think your commander would weigh the FT score very heavily when he/she is ranking you.
@@jrobion Im referring to the POC that would be in charge of a flight back at the detachment, they are called flight trainers where I am I’m not sure about other places. Would the det commander take the flight trainers views on you as well as the peer rankings into consideration or talk to flight trainers directly about you as an individual?
@@jrobion also how much does the APAS ( The one that teaches aero class and who I have midterm feedback with) have a say in your commanders ranking for PSP, and are they required to talk to the det CC about you?
I wanna ask about nursing- how hard is it really to get an EA for nursing
In my experience it isn't that hard. In my time every cadet getting a nursing degree and wanting a nursing EA has received a nursing EA.
@@jrobion oh gotcha- it’s just that I looked at the selection board and there’s only more or less 50 cadets out of a thousand
@@gaiusaugustusgermanicus471 Oh really? I had no idea the numbers were that bad. I was just judging by what I've seen. I would think that the USAF would want more than 50 nurses in a calendar year. I read there are about 60,000 nurses so they aren't going to get replacements at that rate. Good luck either way.
@@jrobion yep. For nursing the averages nationally were: Minimum order of merit 65; PFA 97; GPA 3.65 something.
Currently at a 3.9 GPA, 89.5 PFA(needs work) and don’t know my Order of merit obviously, but I do participate a lot in my det and they know me so hopefully it’s above average