AF extends navigator application deadline

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11/1/2005 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- The deadline for all officers interested in applying for navigator training has been extended to Jan. 10.

Officials moved the Air Force Undergraduate Flying Training Selection Board date to Jan. 24-27, which selects officers for pilot, navigator and air battle manager training, because of an increased opportunity for navigator training applicants.

With the Air Force's first Force Shaping Board scheduled for April, the flying training board will provide an increased opportunity to retain some of those affected officers in the 2002 and 2003 year groups.

"Navigator training offers all officers a career broadening opportunity," said Lt. Col. Michael Jones, deputy chief of the operations assignments division at the Air Force Personnel Center here. "However, there is an additional opportunity for those officers in the 2002 and 2003 year groups who will be selected to fill existing manpower shortfalls in the navigator career field specific to their year groups."

Applicants must meet all requirements listed in Air Force Instruction 36-2205 "Applying for Flying Training, Air Battle Manager and Astronaut Programs." Applicants must not exceed their 30th birthday or five years beyond their Total Federal Commissioned Service Date by May 2006, the start date of the board's first available undergraduate flying training class.

The suspense date for pilot and air battle manager applicants is unchanged. Those packages must be received at AFPC no later than Nov. 23.

For more information on flying training selection process, contact the special flying programs section at DSN 665-2330 or commercial (210) 565-2330.

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