Posted on Aug 20, 2019
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SFC Michael D.
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Submit and re-submit if turned down. Don't give up.
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LCDR Keith Trepanier
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I was selected as a PFC for flight school and never looked back. What have you got to lose by applying now? If you don't get selected just try again.

There are always people who will tell you to wait and gain more experience or to try different options. You will always always note that they are not warrant officers and that they have not applied to anything themselves because they are waiting for tomorrow. I also met with many of those naysayers once I was a warrant officer and they were still the same rank they were when they gave me their "advice."
If a program really required more experience or a certain rank they would put that in the requirements. If you meet the requirements then apply.

Good luck.
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Thanks for the great advice!
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Personally, I would wait until you are a SPC. Based on board results over the last year, PFC's are very rarely selected (no joke, like maybe a handful in the last 7 boards). Unless there are simply no PFC's dropping packets, which I highly doubt.

Unless you're an older soldier with life experience and a college education to back you up, I'd wait. You're not an NCO, but being a SPC still looks better on paper than being a Private. SPC are selected all the time for flight.
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CW3 MH-60 Pilot
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There is absolutely no reason to wait. Submit it now.
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Agree with CW3 Viola. Absolutely no reason to wait. Hate to burst the bubble but being a Specialist does not look better to a board than a PFC. What, besides time in service, is needed to get selected to E4 that you don't have at E3? The reason you don't see a lot of PFCs on the selection boards is that it takes time to get a warrant officer packet completed and they are already SPCs by then.
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LCDR Keith Trepanier - That's a good point sir and one that didn't cross my mind. My packet took way longer to put together than I expected it too and had everything worked out smoothly, would have been submitted when I was a PFC.
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