Air Force Reserve Nurse

[ugaRN]

Hello all -

I have posted on here before in the previous months inquiring about possibly joining. Well, as I had posted previously I had made the decision to sign up as a hopeful to join the Air Force Reserves as a flight RN with the Aeromedical Evacuation Unit. I am very excited and anxiously awaiting as I know everyone does.

SO- what I am wondering about today is if there is anyone who can give me their scenario as to how long the process took and any other advice....

To give you a quick update/background -

1)I had my flight squadron interview back in May which went well and they were ready to start the process

2) In June I had my Class III flight physical and that seemed to all go well but it was pending one result that I was to get a pap on July 22

3) July 22 came and the test result was in my favor so that was sent to flight medicine

4) Basically 1st of Aug my "packet" was sent off to the higher powers

5)I was alerted in the first week of September that 'they' wanted more paperwork and letters from docs to back up previous 'problems' (but I was not told it was an actual waiver but I am not for sure)

6) I got the paperwork and sent it back to my recruiter and thus flight medicine on the 17th of September.....

So I am just wondering what happens from here and what I can expect. In addition, I have been told I have a new recruiter as well so that has made things sort of confusing....they have almost all the documentation they would need and all the info to do the actual "application" and security clearance.

I am just wondering if that is then sent off AFTER the flight physical is cleared and how does that all work out? Can I expect a few months again to hear back on that? Is there anything else I should be doing or anything I can do to speed up the process?

P.S. - What board does mine actaully go in front of. I have been on www.airforceots.com (which is a great website) but all the acronyms have just confused me SO Much....I am non-military so they mean nothing to me yet Ha

Also, since I am already carrying on and on - If I am accepted, I have a decision to make as to whether or not I want to continue my civilian job in between training or to take a leave of absence and take active orders at my ARB in order to complete training a little faster hopefully and work on base in between doing something. Any advice there???

Thanks so much in advance and sorry for making this such a long post. I am actually at my hospital right now waiting to get off and had a few minutes of down time (that's cherished as we all know - ha)

:) Hope everyone has a great day!

[The Little Greek]

I can't really help you with the "what comes next" part of your post. However, when I first started looking into the military I too was quite confused by all the acronyms. I used (and sometimes still do) http://www.militarywords.com. It might help you decipher some of the posts from the other site.

[ugaRN]

Thank you for that link....I appreciate it Def will help....

Hope someone else can help me!