More
than three years banked at the time would cause a pilot to miss
their first "gate" for flying time, which by policy the Air Force
would not allow to happen.

However, it did I happen and personally know two pilots it happened to. Both
completed UPT in '92 and were not finished with the AETC requal program till
'96. I often joked to both of them, that I made out better by losing my UPT
slot in '91. I was what was termed " a recatagorized pilot" (or recat for
short). We went off and did other jobs first, then went to UPT. In the end
most guys that I would have gone through UPT with, beat me to the first
operational assignment, but not all of them. In hindsight I'm glad I was
"recat'ed", vise getting banked. I did much better in UPT as a 1Lt./Capt then I
would have done as a 2 Lt.


BUFDRVR

"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"