Select E6 out of API

[Sabre170]

I was talking to our Director of Ops, a Navy CDR, this week and was told that there are 2 slots left for E6 for the rest of the fiscal year and starting October 1st, E6 guys will come out of API and go straight to the rag.

 

[TheBubba]

I'd like to see that in writing...

Did he explian the reasoning behind that? I can understand selecting out of primary, but API?

 

[vanity]

I don't see how thats possible. They can't just start in the E6, they need to fly the T-34 first. Can't imagine someone saying "congratulations the first plane you're ever going to fly is a jet."

 

[lthackston]

Maybe they just mean that you head to Vance for Primary and remain there for the rest of the pipeline. That's the only reasonable thing I can think of.

 

[Sabre170]

Sorry guys... I was talking about NFOs. Pilots still have the whole deal. The NFOs have no navigational responsibilities on the E6 now that the cockpit has been renovated to a glass cockpit. The NFOs are airborne comm guys... They don't need Primary, they need comm school.

 

[e6bflyer]

Just coming from Tinker, the idea there was to cut Randolph out of the whole picture. I think that NFOs will still go to primary to recieve the same basic training that all flyers need and then will go to VQ-7 to do advanced and their FRS training. They will wing there in OKC and will graduate the FRS as a qualified ACO (granted, not a very useful one) instead of a non-qual. That is what the latest rumor was in OKC.