You have been tentatively approved for retraining into AFSC XXXXX. This will reflect on vMPF within 5 business days and you will receive a class date in 4-6 weeks. If you meet all three boards, and are not selected, you will not receive a denial e-mail, your status will simply disappear.

As a FTA, Airmen have an eight-month window to apply to retrain into a new career field. For a four-year enlistee, the window is between the 35th and 43rd month of enlistment. For a six-year enlistee, the window is between the 59th and 67th month of enlistment.

Retraining Process Overview The overall objective of the retraining program is to balance the enlisted career force across all Air Force Specialty Codes (AFSCs) and ensure sustainability of career fields. Retraining also provides a means to return disqualified Airmen to a productive status.

First-term airmen can only apply for retraining during a specific window. For four-year enlistees stationed stateside, that falls during the 35th and 43rd month of their current enlistment, according to a video posted by AFPC, and six-year stateside enlistees can apply between their 59th and 67th month.

Top Air Force jobs in demand

• Combat controller specialists. These specialists receive highly skilled training in scuba, parachuting and snowmobiling, and are FAA-certified air traffic controllers.
• Pararescue specialists.
• Air Force special reconnaissance.
• Tactical air control party specialists.

Traditional Reservists join a Reserve unit, usually near their homes, and train with the unit one weekend a month and perform two weeks of annual training a year. TRs also deploy with their units and have opportunities to cross train into a new career field.

You can request a specialty reassignment when you re-enlist, during which you agree to serve for another few years in your new position. This is likely the best time to make a move to a new position.

What is the hardest job in the Air Force?

• Fusion Analyst – Digital Network Analyst (1N4)
• Survival, Evasion, Resist & Escape (1T0)
• Rescue Pilot (11H)
• Reconnaissance /Surveillance/Electronic Warfare Pilot (11R)
• Special Operations Pilot (11S)
• Mobility Combat Systems Officer (12M)

Civilian Employees Most federal civilians working on Air Force Bases don’t deploy. They serve in supporting roles across the base, including human resources professionals, social workers, mechanics, police officers and cyber security experts.

Air Force Reserve to Active Duty Switching from the Air Force Reserve unit to Active Duty requires an individual to first separate from the Air Force Reserves and then complete the process to enlist as Active Duty. Separating from the Reserves will require an approved discharge, (conditional release Form DD 368).

A first-term airman (four-year enlistment contract) assigned to a CONUS (continental United States) base is eligible to volunteer to retrain after they have completed 35 months (and no more than 43 months) of military service.

35F is a good MOS. You instantly receive a top-secret clearance (if you pass investigation of course). The intelligence community is good to get in to. It is small but there is a lot of opportunities.

The regulation which governs retraining for Air Force enlisted personnel is Air Force Instruction 36-2626 — AIRMAN RETRAINING PROGRAM.

Job requirements for NCOs (non-commissioned officers on their second or subsequent enlistment) are released for possible NCO voluntary and involuntary re-training. Even if an Air Force job is listed as a “chronic shortage job,” that doesn’t necessarily mean the job will be open to a new recruit, even if qualified.

The Air Force Enlisted Re-Training Program can be divided into three major areas: Voluntary re-training for first-term airmen who have almost completed their first enlistment period, called CAREERS (Career Airman Reenlistment Reservation System) NCO re-training (which applies to those on their second and subsequent enlistment period)