Originally Posted by
F4E Mx
Yes, they are giving out A LOT of drone slots to recent and upcoming UPT graduates as reported today in the WSJ journal (July 15, 2015). That was the whole point of my post. The USAF is losing more drone pilots on an annual basis than they are training.
For what it's worth, I'm a UPT IP and haven't seen them given out in quite a while. I don't have access to my WSJ right now to read the story. There is a rumor on baseops.net about them being assigned to UPT students again, but it's just a rumor. Tell your kid to go reserves or Gaurd. If he goes AD, tell him to work his ass off and have a good attitude. When they did give them out it was typically 2 per class, 1 T38 & 1 T1 and sometimes only every few classes even had one. It will go to the last place guy in each respective track. Feel free to PM me with questions.