Nurse Enlisted Commissioning Program USAF

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Hello, I am in the Air Force. I recently applied to the 2010 Nurse Enlisted Commissioning Progam (NECP). I am waiting for the board results. Anyone else out there as anxious as me?

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AFI 36-2606.....2.5.5. Airmen aren't eligible for an SRB if they reenlist or enter an extension in order to get required retainability for a commissioning program after the selection date. Airmen may be eligible for an SRB if they reenlist or enter an extension before the selection date. In these cases, SRB payment does not occur pending official selection or nonselection. Airmen selected for training don't receive the SRB. Airmen not selected for training receive the SRB if otherwise eligible.2.5.5.1. HQ AFPC/DPPAER notifes DFAS-DE/FJPST to suspense installment payments upon selection for the program.2.5.5.2. DFAS-DE/FJPST terminates payments effective the first day of class, and reinstates payments when commissioning doesn't occur and the airmen return to duty in the SRB skills.

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Explained perfectly.......I was concerned for a second because i know that with some of the commissioning programs, you have to have the education office place you in a specific code.....I think since one would belong to a ROTC and not a working squadron, they couldn't be place in line with orders...OFF THE SUBJECT.....2012RN2B brought up a good point today...tomorrow, 4 people down in TX will know our commissioning fate---->I am sure that doesn't help any of us rest any better but just a thought. Seriously though.....I hope all of us are talking on here in about a month talking about how ruched we are to get things done before school starts because obviously that means we all got accepted..........

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Hope I'm not out of line here - one of your group PMd me and asked for some encouragement.

I was once in your shoes. I'm prior enlisted (security forces - I was also K9 qualified) and have spent my time on the line side of the Air Force. I don't know what your AFSCs are; I suspect a lot of you are 4Ns, though, so I know you know how different the med side is from the line side. (Here at Wilford Hall - yep, I'm back at Lackland and I actually love it! - I'm always saying "across the street" when I reference the line side...lol...) I finished a BS degree with Regents College when I was enlisted.

Speaking as one raised (if you will) on the line side, I'm in awe of the med side! Everyone here is so HELPFUL and NICE and NOT AFRAID OF RANK....refreshing change....believe me when I say this is one LT who knows a good thing when she's got it!

I got out because I didn't want to be married and be a cop (any of you with cop friends know what I'm talking about); I got married and eventually ended up (with my husband's encouragement) going back to school for nursing at Duke University in North Carolina to their Accelerated BSN program (God bless federal loans and the GI Bill, right?). And after two years of being a really bored civilian he asked me if I'd ever thought about coming back on active duty. I jumped at the chance.

What I actually said was, "why are you asking me on a Saturday night when I can't call the recruiter until Monday morning?!!"

This was my fourth attempt at a commission. I tried twice when I was enlisted and one other time as a civilian when I was in the Reserves. I knew when I submitted my package to Randolph last February that this was my last shot at being an officer. I'm the child of senior enlisted - my dad was a Naval Corpsman in the Korean and Viet Nam Wars - and the sister of senior enlisteds - my older brothers have retired from the Navy and the Army. When I was in high school, my dad took me to the campus of the USNA at Annapolis - he wanted an officer in the family in the worst way. I wasn't interested. And then once I went in enlisted (I had three years of college and was broke to the point I was hiding from the landlord - really) I spent my whole time trying to get a commission.

My dad died in 2005. He wasn't even there when I graduated from Duke - something else that would've blown him away.

When I got the call last May - actually, my husband took it - I came in from a 7p-7a shift on the oncology floor of Duke Hospital after going out to breakfast with my best friend. We'd had the night from hell. It was about 10 a.m. and this is how the convo went.

My husband - "The recruiter called."

Me - unimpressed - "Yeah, what's she need now?"

(My officer recruiter should've been an enlisted recruiter. You all know what I mean.)

MH - "She said there's a spot for you in October if you want it."

Me - "If you're lying to me, darling, I'll kill you."

And like that - I was in.

This wait you're going through is hell. I know. I've been there. The work you've gone through - the EPRs, the bullets, the paperwork, the letters - it's a bear, and I know that too. I've done it four times.

What's on the other side is incredible. Not just being an officer, but being a nurse. It's the best job in the world. And you're wanting to do it for the most amazing and most powerful air force the world's ever known.

I'm a big flag waver. I choke up when I hear the "Star Spangled Banner" and had to take off my glasses when I saw that flag at the Smithsonian. I love the sound and smell of jets on a flightline (I miss that from my cop days - AHHH, nothing like JP8 at 0600!) and I stand a little straighter when I see the Pentagon on television. I do - really. My dad is buried at Arlington National Cemetery and you can see the Pentagon from his grave; not even yahoos in a jetliner could take it down. The history lessons at COT were awesome - look at what we've accomplished in just over sixty years. It's amazing.

But nothing tops this: I talked to elementary kids last week - little kids, 1st through 4th graders - for their career day at a high risk school district. And teachers stopped me in the hall and thanked me and my FAMILY for serving our country.

You don't get that on the civilian side.

And I work with some of the finest NCOs I think I've ever served with - and I'm proud that I've been told by our airmen on my floor that I'm an "awesome LT" and how they really like working with (a few even said for!) me because I understand where they're coming from. I do. I was there.

So don't give up. I'm proof that if you stick with it, it can be done.

Commissioned or not, I'm proud to serve with all of you. And I wish you all the most luck I possibly can.

I apologize for intruding. Back to your forum. :)

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Hi Carolinapooh...wow your post really choked me up; that is so awesome of you to drop in and encourage us and I am so happy that you made it and got to be a nurse. It seems like it is so much harder to get in once you are prior enlisted, almost like we have to jump through so many more hoops than if we just walked up as nurses and said "please take me" sometimes. If I don't get accepted this year (it's my first time applying), I will try one more time next year. If I don't make it then, I will separate as well and do it on my own and try to come back in as a nurse. It will be hard to walk away at 14 years by the time I can separate, but it is even harder to stay in a job (or AFSC) that you don't love when you know you could be doing something that makes you happier and that you would love. I am rambling....thanks so much for your encouragement and contrats to you for succeeding! :)

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Carolinapooh, I am really interested in knowing how you got into Hemoc. I have a high interest in working hemoc, especially when I retire, I then want to go onto working for a cancer center. I am inspired by your determination and its good to know that I am not the only one, I guess we are all in this together. My son passed away just over a year ago...long story short..he was born with a rare disease (LCH), went through chemo, was in remission, had a liver transplant, was illergic to penicillian (spleen removed as well), got pneumonia and passed away after his little body couldn't take any more. I live each day in his memory and he is what keeps me moving forward. I can't wait to start making a difference in lives and pass on the strength that I have gained. Anyway, I really would like to know more about Hemoc because that is where I would like to ultimatley end up.

I work HQ AETC at Randolph AFB, right down the road from AFPC, it sucks I can't find out sooner. The wait is the hardest part of this process.

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hi, I am new to this site and ran across your post about the GPA calculation. I too am confused on how afpc figured out my GPA. it is way off from what I calculated (and not in a good way...LOL).

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Amillia2010 said:
Carolinapooh, I am really interested in knowing how you got into Hemoc. I have a high interest in working hemoc, especially when I retire, I then want to go onto working for a cancer center. I am inspired by your determination and its good to know that I am not the only one, I guess we are all in this together. My son passed away just over a year ago...long story short..he was born with a rare disease (LCH), went through chemo, was in remission, had a liver transplant, was illergic to penicillian (spleen removed as well), got pneumonia and passed away after his little body couldn't take any more. I live each day in his memory and he is what keeps me moving forward. I can't wait to start making a difference in lives and pass on the strength that I have gained. Anyway, I really would like to know more about Hemoc because that is where I would like to ultimatley end up.

I work HQ AETC at Randolph AFB, right down the road from AFPC, it sucks I can't find out sooner. The wait is the hardest part of this process.

It sort of found me.

One of my instructors in nursing school asked me one day what I wanted to be when I grew up (LOL) and the honest answer was, "I don't know." She asked me what I was interested in. Again, the honest answer: "drugs and bugs". I love (GOD, this sounds sick) the disease process; the way something as small as a virus or even a simple chromosomal mutation can change and sometimes ruin lives. And pharmacology - we can use drugs to reverse, slow, and sometimes even halt the damage disease causes. And we're learning more every day.

Her answer was quick. "Then you should go into oncology."

My answer? "Oh, heck no. CANCER patients? Never."

She was an RN on our heme/onc unit at Duke, and she told me that I'd have six weeks to decide if the unit was for me, and if I decided it wasn't, I could transfer without penalty to another unit. But she had a feeling it would work. The unit she was from wasn't hiring, so the manager there sent me to the sister unit, so-called "solid tumors". And that manager hired me. I liked the unit, I liked the people, and I even liked the atmosphere. And in a week I was hooked.

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Hello all, I am new to this site and am excited to find you all. :yeah:

I too am nervously awaiting board resluts for the 2010 board. I am stationed at Macdill AFB and will be starting Nursing School at the University of South Florida. Im not sure how unique my situation is but I am starting school next week (May 17th) on my own using TA and taking leave. USF does not give conditional letters of acceptence for Fall start so I have to start on my own PRAYING that I get picked up for the program. If this goes through I will "officially" start the NECP program in the fall having the summer semester already complete. Mr. Baker gave his blessing provided I showed on my adademic plan that I will be starting the program in the Fall. Because I will be on leave all summer, I will be only checking my CAC email at work once a week. Sooooo, I may be relying on you guys to alert me/us when the official list is released.

I wish the best of luck to all of you and hope to be starting this program with those of you who are also waiting on the board results.

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HI DMO27...I applied to USF as well for fall 2010! I got my provisional letter of acceptance but since they don't make admission decisions until after the admission window closes on 15 June, we have a bit of a wait ahead of us! Mr. B told me that since I do not have an official letter of acceptance and only a provisional since USF didn't make their final admission decisions yet, I was only eligible for an alternate seat in NECP. Did you hear the same thing? I have been looking everywhere to see what last year's/last semester's USF admitted students' GPAs and such were to see how I compare...have you found that anywhere? Sorry to ask so much but I haven't found anyone else on here yet that has applied to USF. Hopefully we get our admission decisions soon after the NECP release dates! :I Good luck! :)

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dmo.. welcome there's a lot of good info sharing in this thread. We will be more than happy to keep you in loop on any NECP goings on to include the rsults release.

I am also taking classes starting May 17th using TA/GI bill and leave ( 1 online class and 1 that meets every Thurs). UMSL is pretty militart (AECP/NECP) friendly so they actually gave me my full acceptance letter back in Oct 09 even thought they send them out normally in Feb or Mar I think. I just wanted to lighten my Fall 2010 and Spring 2011 class loads (provided I get picked up.

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dmo27 said:

hi, I am new to this site and ran across your post about the GPA calculation. I too am confused on how afpc figured out my GPA. it is way off from what I calculated (and not in a good way...LOL).

hi dmo27,I think I figured out how it was calculated... they use the points earned/credit hours. for the GPA, it seems like they used all the pre-requisite courses listed on the guidelines( so statistics and pysch, etc too.) I came up pretty close when I added it up like that. (within 100th). am I ocd or just way too much time on my hands?!?!? LOL welcome to the thread!

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Hi dmo27,I think I figured out how it was calculated... they use the points earned/credit hours. For the GPA, it seems like they used all the pre-requisite courses listed on the guidelines( So statistics and pysch, etc too.) I came up pretty close when I added it up like that. (within 100th). Am I OCD or just WAY too much time on my hands?!?!? LOL Welcome to the thread!

Meant to say for the "science" GPA they used all pre-reqs listed on guideline....

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