{"id":25275,"date":"2013-09-03T00:56:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T03:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25275"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:54:41","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:54:41","slug":"air-force-upt-packages-due-november-29th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/03\/air-force-upt-packages-due-november-29th\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force UPT Packages Due November 29th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Active duty officers who are eligible and interested in becoming aicrew have until November 29th to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/ArticleDisplay\/tabid\/223\/Article\/466962\/undergrad-flying-training-applications-due-in-november.aspx\">submit applications for the &#8220;UFT Selection Board:&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The board will review candidates for fiscal year 2014\/2015 training requirements in the pilot, remotely piloted aircraft, combat systems officer and air battle manager categories.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants must meet age and commission date criteria &#8211; born April 1, 1984 or later and total federal service commissioned date after April 1, 2009 &#8211; and must have squadron commander or equivalent endorsement, said Maj. Andrew Larson, AFPC assignments officer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the age-old questions is whether someone who wants to be a pilot can increase his chances of selection by saying he&#8217;ll also volunteer for RPAs <!--more-->&#8212; thus, appearing to be willing to do whatever the service needs; a &#8220;team player,&#8221; if you will.<\/p>\n<p>The same answer applies as always:\u00a0 If you say you&#8217;re a volunteer for UAVs, don&#8217;t complain when you get assigned one.\u00a0 After all, the Air Force has a <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/02\/air-force-unable-to-fill-unmanned-cockpits\/\">shortage of UAV volunteers<\/a> right now&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Active duty officers who are eligible and interested in becoming aicrew have until November 29th to submit applications for the &#8220;UFT Selection Board:&#8221; The board will review candidates for fiscal year 2014\/2015 training requirements in the pilot, remotely piloted aircraft, combat systems officer and air battle manager categories. Applicants must meet age and commission date criteria &#8211; born April 1, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,5285,2,4257,53,2895],"class_list":["post-25275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-selection-board","tag-uav","tag-upt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}