BaronPete,

Go to www.baseops.net, click on military pilot in the upper left corner, then click on military pilot forum in the upper right corner. There are different topics in the forum board, but the aviation medicine board has countless threads on vision requirements and and I believe has them permanently posted on the top of the board. However you can worry all you want about what the books say, but until you have a military doc say what your eyes are, you will not know. As someone mentioned earlier LASIK is disqualifying, I believe LASIK has recently been allowed(do not quote me on that though), From what you said about your eyes they should be okay the only prob you might have is the astigmatism but again only a military doc with be able to say. Easiest way I found to get the TBAS and AFOQT out of the way is, find the unit you really want to apply to, speak to the enlisted recruiter who can set you up with the AFOQT and TBAS. Then once this was out of the way, talk with and get familiar with who hires for UPT, get your application package in and wait for an interview. (This applies to the Guard) Each unit has a little bit different way they want the application package put together, but once you get the first one together it will be much easier to get others together for other units. About your conviction problem I have no idea about how that will affect you process. If you get on the baseops forum there should be someone on there who has done UPT hiring boards and may have an idea how it will affect you, its probably on an individual basis though. On the baseops site there is a link for jobs, here a lot of units around the country post contact names and email addresses as well as if they are hiring. Also http://www.ang.af.mil is good, you can look up contact info for most units through this page. For the reserves just call the main 1800 # for Air Force recruiting and ask for who is in charge of hiring for the reserve units. They will be able to tell you who needs people and can give you their contact names. Good luck.