Greetings,

I just got my name added to the AMT list and a new option was offered to me the other day. A PATFORSWA billet. Since AMT is almost a year wait I figured I'd go overseas for 1 year at a PATFORSWA and come back at the top of AMT list because that's what the solicitation was offering. I was just wondering if anyone else here had done something similar or knows someone who did this?

I know of a seaman out here already who put his name on and as soon as his flight physical is updated then he goes to the top.

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Originally posted by ddfoss1:
I know of a seaman out here already who put his name on and as soon as his flight physical is updated then he goes to the top.

IMO....if they do a tour over there they deserve to go to the top.

When I joined, I too went on the list for AMT (back then I was an AM) and the current wait was up to two and a half years. My CC helped me out by telling me about going to a unit that would give me a Priority One transfeer after I was done, so I went Isolated Duty in AK. Guarenteed to bump to the top of the list when I rotated in one year...made seaman in four months and at five months was sitting of the top of the list.
Still stayed in my billet but when I rotated I went to the very next class.

i am waiting to hear if i will be accepted to PATFORSWA myself, but no news so far. if not, oh well, ill be another year probably before airman program but at least my physical is clear.

The way the AMT list is moving, you might as well go do your year in the gulf.....

i would really love to. it would probably work out around the same time i would go to school if i didnt go overseas. i dont care though, i will wait 2 years if i must to become an AMT. its the only thing i considered before i had met my recruiter, no other ratings appealed to me then or now.