Posted on Jun 6, 2015
Does the Air Force really not take prior service?
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I've talked to a few colleagues recently and wanted to ask the RP community if they could shed some light on this subject. Does the Air Force really not take prior service? I've heard that they do a "window" where they will potentially accept prior service as long as their previous MOS will directly translate into an AF MOS, for instance an Army 13F to Air Force JTAC/TACP. Really just want to get some facts about this. Thanks for the help!
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I'm former U.S. Coast Guard. You have to have what they are looking for. They needed pilots, and I was available at arguably the right time.
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CPL(P) (Join to see)
I agree with you Sir, if you can do what they need. You can possibly get it, I'm currently trying for Sere Specialist.
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LTC Jeff Shearer
Lloyd I have spent many hours on many types of aircraft both rotary wing and fixed wing but I have never piloted anything but my parachute. I was told it has something to do with my GT score. I was told the number was way to little hahahaha I kill me. Sad but true hahaha
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Capt Daniel Goodman
That is interesting, we have a family friend who'd been Army enlisted, he got into Army WOCS for rotary wing, did sevl yrs as that, finished his Bach in aviation at Emory Riddle, then Army released him, USCG picked him up, I was never sure whether through OCS or direct commission indoc OIS, he finished his 20 urs with them as am O-3, I always found that of interest, the only one I'd ever met who'd done that.....
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I just spent a week doing RAP with my AF recruiter just recently. Someone who was proir Army called him looking to join the AF and he told him the only way he could enlist is if he tried for TACP, PJ, CCT, or SERE.
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LTC Jeff Shearer
sere? I know what SERE is but that is a job? I want to do that, that would be fun, the survival part, maybe the other part haha but mostly the survival part.
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LTC Jeff Shearer SERE is a career track and has its own AFSC in the Air Force and it’s reserve components.
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A friend of mine was enlisted in the coast guard. He tried a few times to get in to OCS and was denied. Air Force was happy to take him and give him a bar. (He had his masters in engineering) coast guards loss
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