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Originally posted by docetboy
Updated news, good and bad.
The good news: I got the job I wanted, Airborne Communications 1A331  - I get to be aircrew hellya!
The bad news: I don't ship out till 20 April 
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Congratulations! Heh heh heh... Salmi's going to learn what a 'Lackland Light Saber' is!
(No big secret... it's those ugly-ass flashlights with a cone filter you hafta carry around all over the place at night.)
Keep your nose clean and stay outta trouble during your DEP (delayed enlistment period). You will probably be required to report monthly to your recruiter for a p*ss test and if any adverse actions such as moving violations or worse occurred during that period.
Keep up with your studies in tech school - wash out and you will be sent to Services or some other sh*t job you hate for the next three years before you can crosstrain out of that specialty.
Depending on the career field you will at the very least hafta go through a background investigation for a SECRET clearance, and once you go to specific training in whatever system you're assigned, you will probably screen for at least a TOP SECRET or maybe a TOP SECRET/SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information) clearance. The latter two clearances are long and drawn out, and interim clearances are not usually given at that clearance level. So don't be surprised if they make you do 'make work' jobs until the clearance comes through.
You don't earn the right to wear the green bag (flight suit) and the leather jacket until you complete tech school. Good thing, though... being on aircrew means you get seen by the flight surgeon and not the medical hobby shop. The lines are shorter, too.
However, if you should even get a cold or suffer any illness that might keep you from flying, you will be put on the DNIF (Duty Not Involving Flying, pronounced 'dee-niff') list and do 'make work' jobs until you're cleared again to fly by the flight surgeon.