Requesting a UPT Base

[BeechScrub]

Can you request to go to a certain base for UPT? Is there a way to request to go to JSUPT with the Navy in Pensacola? If you go there, how does that affect track select?

 

[Toro]

You'll put in a dream sheet for your ranked preferences of UPT base. Whether you get what you want is entirely up to the dudes at the AF Peronnel Center.

Not sure how the selection works with regards to JSUPT at Pensacola.

 

[skyward80]

Do reservists get a dreamsheet for UPT as well? I don't care where I go, but if somebody asks... I guess I'd go to Vance. Although, it seems like everybody winds up at Laughlin.

 

[BeechScrub]

Yeah, same here, I don't care where I go, but if someone asks, I'd like to go to Moody, Randolph, or Pensacola as long as it doesn't negatively affect track select.

 

[Tweetdrvr]

You are about 35 years too late for flight school at RND unless you want to be a Nav

 

[CCDiscoB]

Careful what you ask for

I can only see one benefit to going to Pensacola.....Women.

I'd recommend, for those that are going AF, to stick with AF UPT. A few reasons; The Navy requires a swim test prior to starting. Are you an EXCELLENT swimmer? I've heard horror stories about our international students getting delayed over a year trying to pass the test. Speaking of delays, there is no timeline with the Navy. It may take you a year to get through phase one and two. Then you're off to an AF base for the T-38 (fighter bomber track) and now learn the AF way of doing things. The AF spoon feeds you, the Navy uses more of the big boy approach. Can you get yourself ready for your sorties. If you need assistance or motivation then I'd say stick to the AF.

One last thing, I've seen more than a couple of students "lose focus" and washout. For what, some chick?

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

Having seen both sides....

If you want fighters, don't go to Pensacola. The only reason I say that is because of the super-steep culture-shock curve you'll get when you go meet the 38 a$$holes. However, your odds of getting 38's won't go down any by being there (as far as I know). Otherwise, P-cola your best bet for making UPT a fun experience all around. If you are so irresponsible as to wash out in the Navy program, then you wouldn't make it through the Air Force program either. ...or you could go be lonely in Enid, Columbus, Valdosta or laughlin.

 

[Andy Neill]

The Navy requires a swim test prior to starting. Are you an EXCELLENT swimmer? I've heard horror stories about our international students getting delayed over a year trying to pass the test.

I'd like to take the edge off this a bit. I was 39 when scheduled to take the Navy swim test in Jacksonville in preparation for USNTPS. I have never been much of a fitness enthusiast. To say the least, we overtrained. I was swimming laps in a flight suit and sitting for over a minute on the bottom of the pool in parachute harness and diving weights to build my breath- holding capacity. The test was a sinch. The one in our group who had the most trouble had a bad cold and left a snot slick on the pool surface.

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

The one in our group who had the most trouble had a bad cold and left a snot slick on the pool surface.

Ewwwwwwwww!