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Well, after wanting to join for a number of years I finally spoke to an officer recruiter last Wednesday. I'm working to try and get a packet ready for an NFO/Pilot slot. I still have to schedule a MEPS appointment and take the ASTB (I've been studying for that for a couple months). Anyone here have any experience with that pipeline?
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Aranan posted:I spent about a year going for NFO. Took the ASTB (just use one of the study guides and actively work through it and you should be fine), did pretty well, and my recruiter said the boards kept getting postponed. Once I was about 7 or 8 months in, he asked me how old I was and then told me I was too old to go the NFO route. Ouch, sorry to hear that. I'm 23 right now and from what I understand the aviation cutoff is 27 by time of commission, so barring any major green weenie head-slaps I should be good on the age front. Good the hear about the studying, I've been using a GRE math prep book and the Barron's ASTB study guide for my prep. So far I've done okay on the practice, but I gotta tone up my math!
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Aug 22, 2016 02:08
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Aranan posted:Yeah, I turned 28 during the process. You should be fine. It was just the first in a series of many military dickings I received. I'm used to it now. Thank you I'll keep studying hard! You mentioned you got to submitting a packet. If I may ask, for your motivational statement, how long should it be? I keep seeing people on AirWarrior say about 400 words, but when I do that I still have a ton of room left for a statement on my APSR, so I wasn't sure if I should put more or not.
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Aug 22, 2016 18:54
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So, possibly a dumb question; does Tricare cover genetic screening for genetic markers that might indicate higher risks of cancer. I was looking at the Tricare Website and it said genetic screening wasn't covered, but most of the examples seemed to be more for babies and prenatal stuff than cancer checks. Wanted to know since my family medical history is a giant black hole (both my folks were adopted and don't know their birth families), and my dad died of pancreatic cancer in his 50's which was apparently outside the typical window, which could indicate family history/genetic predisposition.
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