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"Pete" wrote:

Does anybody know what the USAF tends to do when people with a directly
translatable skill, i.e. civilian aircraft mechanics or computer
programmers,
enlist? I expect that they would have to go through basic training, but
would
they have to go through the entire course of technical training that
somebody
with no experience in the skill would have to go through?

Yes. Nowadays, tech school is like extended Basic. You're still learning how
to be in the USAF, along with the bare bones basics of your future job..
Along with how the AF does things, from a/c maintenance to programming.

Of which I did both.

There used to be a thing known as Direct Duty Assignment, but evidently the
last person to do such graduated BMT in March 1994.


What jobs does the AF have which require no schooling after boot camp?
Even grunts have schooling after basic. It must be equivalent to the
ubiquitious USN Buffer Tech rating. ; 0

--Mike