Air Force NTP 2014

siohara3 · Aug 18, 2014

Thanks for the update, jerryp! Did you learn this from your recruiter? Also, do you know about how many they originally planned to accept?

jerryp · Aug 18, 2014

Yeup. Updated by my recruiter. I don't know the original projection. I believe someone earlier in the thread said

30-35 Med-Surg selects. ~5 OB selects. Which makes sense as it is consistent with last years NTP board.

They plan on hiring more but they're still waiting on final numbers they can play around with $$$. U.S. Budget --> National Defense --> U.S. Air Force --> Nurse Corps --> Direct Commission New Grads. Gotta wait for the financials to get sorted out and trickle down to us.

siohara3 · Aug 18, 2014

Cool, thanks again.

syl8 · Aug 21, 2014

jerryp--- Great news! I am assuming that since FY '15 begins October 1st, the budget should be close to being figured out at this point? (I know I shouldn't assume). It seems that they might want to have everything finalized within a month of when the deadline is....fingers crossed we hear something by September 1st.

Jbuenav1 · Aug 21, 2014

Aloha!

I have also applied for Oct COT. Just like many of you.. Same thing I heard from my recruiter! Praying for the results to come out and be in our favor! I applied for the OB route. I will post anything that I hear from my recruiter.

:-)

Camo-angel · Aug 21, 2014

They certainly can't wait too much longer since there are people who would leave for COT in October. With the new fiscal year starting October 1st I'd assume the latest we could possibly know is mid September. Hopefully it's sooner than that!!

It would be amazing if they did in fact hire more than originally planned for, maybe 40 of us for med-surg! My friend has a theory that since the military is cutting a lot of people who have been in the service a while, now they need more new people to replace them. Whatever the reason, it means more opportunity for us ( =

Editorial Team / Moderator · Aug 21, 2014

My friend has a theory that since the military is cutting a lot of people who have been in the service a while, now they need more new people to replace them. Whatever the reason, it means more opportunity for us ( =

It's a nice theory, but the reason for the cuts is an overall drawdown in required manpower - i.e., there are fewer positions worldwide. It won't be a one-for-one replacement for sure. Whatever the case, we are all being asked to do far more with far less!

jfratian, DNP, RN, CRNA · Aug 21, 2014

Yep. When they do force-shaping, they don't just get rid of only people with 10+ years in. They even offered voluntary separation packages to O-2s with only ~2-3 years of service. They try to slim down at every level.

littlemissfit · Aug 21, 2014

I think the increase in their selection to hire new grads has to do with them down-sizing over the past few years, but at the same time there is still stuff going on in the middle east.. with Isis being a bigger problem than they had originally thought, and all of the refugees they are trying to now place, and the UN getting involved with it. In addition the ebola outbreak may get worse. I think they are hiring more of us in case those issues get worse, in addition to cutting costs and saving money. But that's just my take on it.

MadeInMaine · Aug 24, 2014

Tomorrow will be 4 weeks from the original release date. Any guesses that we will hear tomorrow?

I have given up hope on hearing "soon", so I just try and continue my every day life.... annoying.

Cheers all

siohara3 · Aug 25, 2014

MadeInMaine, I stopped keeping track of how long it's been after about 2 weeks! I've just been hoping for the best and keeping my phone nearby, but this is truly the waiting game. Studying for NCLEX and applying to some jobs as a "just-in-case" measure... Glad to know I'm not the only one in the dark on this!

johnro · Aug 25, 2014

This is getting ridiculous!