Any Air Force/Air National Guard Recruiters?

Very interested in Joining Air Force/ANG and going to officer school (Just graduated from a 4 year school with a Finance major) and am wondering what ways to go about recruitment to have best odds of getting into Officer school as I don't want to enlist (for both financial/living arrangement reasons when compared to my career opportunity I have non military route). I'm open to just about anything that'll get me started at 0-1.

Sure some stuff is more interesting but understand Officer school isnt easy to get into from non ROTC program

 

In the USMC we called it OCS, but I think the Air Force calls it OTS?

Just go to any AF recruiter just the same, but you'll ask about becoming an officer.

 

I’d reach out to the NorCal/Reno officer specific recruiter that’s in the Sacramento area. My wife is currently in contact with that recruiter trying to become an Air Force officer.

 

I’m USAF AD recruiter.

 

Did not know/find an officer specific recruiter. Interesting. Did send email to the generic recruiter email for Reno Air Guard (152nd)

When someone comes in interested in being an Officer, like me and has a finance degree. Are you more inclined to push me towards admin type roles like cost analysis or contracting instead of something I think sounds neat like space ops officer, pilot, aviation resource management etc.

I do see a bonus posted online for contracting though and I have a gut feeling that'd transition well to civilian life later on.

 

Will send you a dm with my official phone and also you can text me and I can give you a call with the details.

 

Doesn't matter what your degree is in. Could be underwater basket weaving. All that matters is that you have a bachelor's degree. You can be anything from admin to pilot. What do YOU want to be? I'm prior active. Transitioned to guard last year.

Edit: one thing to keep in mind is what mission/jobs the guard unit your are going to has. Not all guard bases offer every afsc. I had to crosstrain out of my active duty afsc to join my unit. Just so happens this base doesnt have planes

 

good note. I'd be open to a lot of things. Sure I want to fly. But I'd need lasik before I could fly the fun stuff. MY research also tells me I'd need to wait to have flight medical at least 1 year post op to test the eyes. Right now ive got -6.25 in contacts prescription which I know is awful. Very very bad. And flying has body dimension restrictions based on aircraft.

Your awesome will shoot ya a text in the AM

 

Did the specialty branch recruiting for 20+ years……I dare say I know a bit about it.

 

Breaking a lease for, your residency?

Just speak to whoever you signed a lease with - last apartment I had stated I would need to pay "xxx" per month that remained on my lease to break it.

Details will be outlined in your agreement when you first got the place.

 

Is she prior enlisted? Why would the lease need to be broken?

 

Is the goal to break the lease or no? If y’all are both on the lease she’d just go to OTS and then the follow on assignment. There is no obligation to break your own lease, that’s something that the service member has to action with orders.

and the sad dog pic essentially saying “don’t let us go homeless” is giving big Alyssa Milano vibes.

 

Additionally (at least how it worked for my army OCS timeline), was I went through OCS and then was on PCS leave - typically that’s the time to go back to your home of record to move whatever you want/travel. Brought it to my follow on assignment and then everything goes with you each time you move thereafter.

 

Anyone that’s on active duty orders has the luxury of the SCRA which can break any lease without any financial commitments or repercussions.

 

Active duty, yes.

There's information missing for both of us it seems.

 

Sure but if it pertains to OP anyone at OTS/OCS are on active duty orders while at the school.

 

If your degree and experience is specific to a particular job/AFSC (Air Force Specialty Code) and there is a need for personnel in that area, you can take a direct commission in the Reserves to that job. AF will provide orientation to the military and any specific training to make you part of their way of doing the job. Jobs like being an aircrew or pilot generally require a lot of training and if the AF puts you in such a slot and then trains you for it, there is a service requirement of so many years in order to "pay them back" for the training. Someone who already has experience and training as a pilot or other aircrew position has a much easier time going into those jobs and will get preference over others who don't have the experience.

I am not a recruiter, but speak from my own experience when I joined the USAFR many years ago. I was already a degreed RN and wanted to become a Flight Nurse. There was a demand at the time, I applied directly to the Admin section of a medevac squadron and was sent a packet of papers and numbers to call for more specific information, then interviewed. I was sworn in as a 2nd Lt. by an Army Reserve Brigadier General who was a surgeon at the civilian medical center I worked in. There were four of us from the hospital who joined at the same time. I then reported to my assigned squadron and went through an orientation, then sent to a program called MIMSO, or Military Indoctrination for Medical Service Officers. It was 4 weeks of intensive training in becoming a military officer. It included AF regulations, proper wearing of the uniform, military courtesy and protocol, marching in formation, rank structure and promotion, supervision of enlisted and NCO's and general duties of an officer. After that I was sent to a 12-week Flight Nurse School for my training as a medical aircrew member. Things specific to flying duties as well as more medical/nursing training specific to in-flight care, Lots of aerospace physiological training including altitude chamber training plus an abbreviated aircrew survival/escape training. Once I graduated from that school, I was ready to orient at the squadron and start flying, having an instructor guide me through the process during many training flights much like a pilot learning to fly. I had a check ride and was then qualified as a Flight Nurse. As an aircrew member I was required to maintain currency in all my qualifications, meaning that if I went past a certain time period without flying or practicing certain critical skills, I had to do refresher training and then another check-ride. We could also be subject at any time to unannounced check rides by the instructors to ensure our performance was up to standards at all times.

That was my basic path, yours would be similar but designed for your specific position. I spent 8 years in the Reserves, served during Operations Just Cause (Panama, 1989), Desert Shield (1990) and Desert Storm (1991). My only regrets about serving in the USAF was that I did not join at an earlier age, and did not stay in the full 20. I had some other things going on that made it very difficult to stay in, but in retrospect I could probably have worked through them without leaving the AF.

Active Duty may be an entirely different process, and maybe even Reserve duty, because mine was over 30 years ago now. I look back on it and there is very little I did not enjoy.

 

Appreciate the comment but already looked into Air Force and took AFOQT and went through that process but ultimately never submitted for boards as they don’t let you apply for rated positions without flight hours(at least my recruiter doesn’t)

so I studied for ASTB for the navy and took the test and applied for only SNA (pilot) and got accepted