Re: Air Force COT questions Originally Posted by wtbcrna 
Try this link it will explain most things about COT and you can download the operating instructions (which will be what your 1st test is on).
http://www.au.af.mil/au/holmcenter/O...RCOT/index.asp
I think you get 7-10d between COT and arriving to your duty station depending on where your 1st duty station is and where you are coming from. It should be in your orders when you get them exactly what day you have to report to your new duty station.
Ribbons: You should get AF training ribbon and GWOT ribbon sometime during/or at the end of COT. You won't be doing firearm training at COT unless things have changed.
You only get 7-14 days if you have leave accrued OR if you want to go in the hole with leave (which you really should never do). On my orders I have three travel days from Montgomery, AL to San Antonio, TX, but I'm going to burn off one day's leave since we'll have just shy of 2.5 days when we graduate. I won't be in the hole and I'll get an extra day in New Orleans.
I'm actually given 11 days to get to San Antonio - but they're in excess of the allowed travel time and are therefore chargeable leave.
But since I'll be getting there the day before Thanksgiving....
We will also qualify for the National Defense Ribbon.
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