As a guardsman if that were the case, will I be able to choose a different track to go along to or is that it? I am joining for ATC, but I am also open to other options too.
Is that what they usually do with folks who join the guard? I have talked with a couple friends about it and they said with my background prior and after OKC, I do have a good foundation to build on. Yes I know ANG is different than FAA and I need to focus on military rules, but other than that, I have a good general idea what is going on. Looking back on things, there where a few scenarios in the lab I should have been more aggressive about and others that came as an afterthought and I want to give myself another chance.
What are military rules?
Military still uses the .65 like the faa. 204v3 or whatever it is doesn’t really apply a lot for tech school, and they’ll teach you what you need to know. Just don’t go into tech school saying you were at OKC at the faa academy. Don’t tell the instructors, and don’t tell your classmates. If you have more questions about specific Ang units send me a pm
Typically the guard gives you another choice if you don’t succeed. However, open careers depend on what is needed at the time.
If you join the military, active duty or not, and wash out in ATC, you reclass to another job. You still have an obligation to the military for the length of your enlistment
That's not exactly true, at least in the Air Force. I had a guy fail in my class then separated under failure to adapt. Didn't get a discharge or anything, it was pretty much like he wasn't in the military.
The Slidell comment made me chortle.lol
A monkey could pass the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center. You can literally drink fifteen 3.2% beers per night and never study. You're more likely to get washed away by a Tornado than one of the 60 year old thrice divorced instructors there.
Even tho all the ATC instructors at Keesler are sleeping w each other, working as parttime cocktail waitresses at the Beau Rivage, loss prevention at Winn-Dixie, retail at the Edgewater Mall, or marrying tech school students in Slidell on the weekend; it is actually possible to wash out there. It's ironic because once these military controllers get to FAA facilities and talk non-stop about the Air Force 24/7 (especially Nellis & Shepherd controllers), it rarely seems as if they have actually ever talked to planes. World's weird and probably a simulation anyway. ? #NATCA4evZ
In other words Keesler is harder, but its a close race.
lol
A monkey could pass the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center. You can literally drink fifteen 3.2% beers per night and never study. You're more likely to get washed away by a Tornado than one of the 60 year old thrice divorced instructors there.
Even tho all the ATC instructors at Keesler are sleeping w each other, working as parttime cocktail waitresses at the Beau Rivage, loss prevention at Winn-Dixie, retail at the Edgewater Mall, or marrying tech school students in Slidell on the weekend; it is actually possible to wash out there. It's ironic because once these military controllers get to FAA facilities and talk non-stop about the Air Force 24/7 (especially Nellis & Shepherd controllers), it rarely seems as if they have actually ever talked to planes. World's weird and probably a simulation anyway. ? #NATCA4evZ
In other words Keesler is harder, but its a close race.
Oh yeah, well ANG is basically like the officers going through tech school. Lol
I was guard and was with a guy that washed at the facility and they just let him pick another job. But I guess it depends on the needs of the service at the time, maybe??
I think hes referring to the USAF applicable rules in the .65 in addition to AFI 13-204v3 and any applicable base regs.
