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OTS is for four-year university and college graduates without prior military service (commonly known as non-prior service), as well as Active Component enlisted, Air Force Reserve enlisted, Air National Guard enlisted and former enlisted personnel from any of the six U.S. armed services with college degrees at the baccalaureate level or higher ...
Some of the assumptions underlying DOPMA have proven false. For example, the services' prediction that most career officers would elect a 30-year career was more optimistic than reality. By 1990 the average officer retired after 24 years of service at the age of 46. [14] DOPMA has also proven difficult to implement.
The current Air Force officer rank names and insignia were taken from the Army upon the establishment of the Air Force as a separate service in 1947. The insignia have been essentially unchanged since then, except for a brief period during the 1990s, when then-Air Force Chief of Staff General Merrill A. McPeak redesigned the service dress uniform.
81C0 – Instructor, Officer Training School; 81D0 – Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Detachment Commander and Professor of Aerospace Studies; 81L0 – Education and Training Leader; 81T0 – Instructor; 82A0 – Academic Program Manager; 83R0 – Recruiting Service; 84H0 – Historian; 85G0 – United States Air Force Honor Guard
Air Force officer promotions are governed by the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act of 1980 and its companion Reserve Officer Personnel Management Act (ROPMA) for officers in the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard. [169] DOPMA also establishes limits on the number of officers that can serve at any given time in the Air Force.
Pay grades [1] are used by the eight structurally organized uniformed services of the United States [2] (Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, and NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps), as well as the Maritime Service, to determine wages and benefits based on the corresponding military rank of a member of the services.
Prior to the creation of the Special Duty ribbon, the Air Force Recruiter Ribbon [2] was established by order of the Secretary of the Air Force on June 21, 2000. It was worth 2 points in the Weighted Airmen Promotion System at one point, and was declared obsolete in 2014. Personnel graduating from the Air Force Recruiting School had worn the ...
College-graduate candidates (initial or prior-service) may also be commissioned in the U.S. uniformed services via an officer candidate school, officer training school, or other programs: Army OCS; Navy OCS; Marine Corps OCS; Air Force Officer Training School (OTS) Coast Guard OCS [19] USPHS Officer Basic Course (OBC) [20]