I still have a year to go until I get out, so I have plently of time…

If you still have a year to go the application system can and probably will change at least a few times. So, you might be worrying for nothing…

I really don't remember putting on the app anywhere that I was mil or civ background, but might have. I just think with so many folks now going to a computer to do the initial screening some guys (yours truly included) might get left out in the cold because of the comparitively low total flight time.

Did the application ask for specific aircraft types? (The format has changed a few times in the last 2 years). Did you put KC 135 there somewhere? If so, I wouldn’t worry about whether you put “military experience” on your resume. I think the application system will figure it out.

Also like I said, if you're correct about the application system not being able to differentiate between the military and the civilian applicants, then how do you explain that almost every military person being called has fewer flight hours than the civilian pilots in his/her class? I can’t prove it but I must have talked to some 60 pilots who either just got hired or were waiting to be interviewed and almost every time the civilian pilots had more flight time than the military ones. Therefore, I think there must be some kind of flight time “equalization system” and I think you’ll be just fine.

Especially when I hear things like they won't even take an app at AirInc...to me that says thanks for your interest, but we'll let the computer sort out who it thinks is best qualified for the job.

I went to the women-in-aviation seminar almost two years ago (I’m not a woman but strongly recommend this job fair) and was told then that as soon as the online application was up and running they would stop accepting resumes at all job fairs. It took them a little longer but I guess they finally did it. Their reasoning was that they were swamped with paper resumes and faxed in resumes and walked in resumes and they spent most of their time sorting through the paper resumes and quite often one person had submitted more than one resume in a day, so I can definitely see why they were desperately trying to get away from that system. (is there a limit to how many times I can say 'resume'?