Originally Posted by
RyanRC187
It is. The funny thing is that the majority of guys who get selected for residency have already completed EWS on their own. It's also a pretty small number of TacAir guys who get selected.
That is different than my timeframe.
NO ONE in the squadron life complete EWS prior to going. If you got a FAC tour instead of school or a training command tour - then you didn't correspondence EWS, otherwise you knocked it out in resident.
Now the ground guys were ALL EWS complete before going to school when I was with 1Bn/2dMar. It was basically expected of them, but they had a lot of time to knock that out in their daily training schedules during garrison life.