Air Force COT Oct 2016

msdnl53 · Sep 1, 2016

I was also slotted for the 15 Aug class but now I'm in the OCT class. It frustrating. I still haven't Commissioned as of yet...smh. I'm O.R. RN and will be stationed at JB Andrews..

CJsmom · Sep 1, 2016

So glad I am mot

alone!!! We literally sold our home, and my last day on my nursing job was 12aug! I feel your pain!!! Any news as ti when you will commission?

Devo19, BSN, MSN, APRN · Sep 1, 2016

My LT. Col. let me know that the dates are 04Oct2016 to 04Nov2016. Has anyone started a FB page? Would be nice to make some friends before we report :-)

narslyf · Sep 1, 2016

I found AF COT Class 17-01 on Facebook. I just requested to join! Oct 4 is right around the corner :)

jthd34 · Sep 2, 2016

Id love to join that group on fb but i cannot seem to find it. Lol. How did you find it?

narslyf · Sep 2, 2016

I just searched COT 17-01 and then the Facebook group AF COT Class 17-01 popped up on the results.

kward6 · Sep 3, 2016

Hey everyone!

I am also planning on attending Oct COT. I am excited but a bit nervous! Where is everyone coming from?

Cali ED RN · Sep 13, 2016

Is anyone else told that orders are not out yet? I was told by my recruiter that Congress has not yet approved several scrolls of candidates for the Oct 2016 COT.

Bummer...

narslyf · Sep 13, 2016

I was told the same thing. Did your recruiter tell you when we can expect orders to roll out? All I got was "sometime soon".

Cali ED RN · Sep 13, 2016

I was told the same thing. Did your recruiter tell you when we can expect orders to roll out? All I got was "sometime soon".

He does not know when or if they are rolling out. He said it's up to Congress now whether to approve the scrolls or not in time for the Oct 2016 COT. And it's highly possible that we get to join the Jan 2017 COT, though "NOTHING is official yet". It certainly makes it difficult for all of us to plan & proceed in situations like this, right?

I'm stressed out & very frustrated. But... life goes on, right?

carolinapooh, BSN, RN · Sep 14, 2016

I've been active duty for fifteen years, officer and enlisted...welcome to the military. :)

You'll have to get used to loose planning in this business; it's probably the most frustrating thing about all this.

Experience tells me to give the unsolicited advice to be ready to go in October (as ready as you can be) and expect to go in January. People drop from COT all the time - they get pregnant, get injured, have something else stop their reporting. So if you've been told you "might" go in October I'd stay in that holding pattern until told otherwise.

If you do get a call a few days before you were meant to report, and have to leave suddenly and almost unexpectedly, don't worry about a two week notice at your current job - you will have military orders, which exempts you from any sort of issues along those lines. You're covered under the Servicemember's Civil Relief Act the moment you're commissioned into the Reserves, so don't worry about that.

And yes, that sort of stuff does indeed happen. I had a flightmate at COT that got called two days before her report date.

narslyf · Sep 14, 2016

He does not know when or if they are rolling out. He said it's up to Congress now whether to approve the scrolls or not in time for the Oct 2016 COT. And it's highly possible that we get to join the Jan 2017 COT, though "NOTHING is official yet". It certainly makes it difficult for all of us to plan & proceed in situations like this, right?
I'm stressed out & very frustrated. But... life goes on, right?

I know exactly how you feel. But I am still holding out hope that we will get to go to COT in October. I know that some members of the August COT class did not get their orders until they were less than 2 weeks out.