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Army borrowing AF dentists?
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If that were the case, I'd bet those signed with the AF would still follow AF protocol, meaning no 15 month tours/deployments etc. They'd probably follow AF standards i'd bet.
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I heard of dentists treating members of other branches when there aren't enough dentist from those branches around in a base that they are stationed. Since the army is having trouble fulfilling their quotas I am wary of such a situation. I haven't heard of the army pulling dentist from other branches to deploy. I don't think that would be possible without the AF giving the army it's approval. I seriously doubt that will be the case. A likelier scenario is that the army deploys their dentist then realizes that they are a bit short of dentists in their bases and uses other dentists to fill the gap temporarily. I don't mean to scare anybody by bringing this up. I seriously doubt that the army would be allowed to borrow other dentist from other branches to deploy. Even just borrowing to fill gaps I think would at best be remote and you'd still be an AF dentist unless you got transferred (with your approval) to another branch. Also the fact that the AF opened up new slots means that the dentist are in great demand in the first priority is AF before they can even consider loaning you out. I just brought this up because it was kind of unusual arrangement that I wanted to alert people who signed up or are about to sign up regardless of how remote the possibility of this happening.
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No worries here yet. There are still a crap load of Army Dental officers that are "light on the right" (no deployment patch) including O5's and O6's. There's no shortage of dentists to deploy, just to treat soldiers on post. They are to busy jerking us around to have us actully treat patients. I just wasted a month of my life at NTC in preperation for deployment this fall, I think I treated 10 soldiers during the month. They would never pull you from the AF and stick you in the Army. you may have to work on an army installation, but hey you AF people would get a substandard living condition allowance for your trouble. GO ARMY.
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No worries here yet. There are still a crap load of Army Dental officers that are "light on the right" (no deployment patch) including O5's and O6's. There's no shortage of dentists to deploy, just to treat soldiers on post. They are to busy jerking us around to have us actully treat patients. I just wasted a month of my life at NTC in preperation for deployment this fall, I think I treated 10 soldiers during the month. They would never pull you from the AF and stick you in the Army. you may have to work on an army installation, but hey you AF people would get a substandard living condition allowance for your trouble. GO ARMY.
Could it be that the army is stop lossing now?
I would say it's possible, as it's happening to AF MD's. In fact, they're even putting AF MD's on convoys.....not what the AF thought was going to happen when they gave the okay.
No worries here yet. There are still a crap load of Army Dental officers that are "light on the right" (no deployment patch) including O5's and O6's. There's no shortage of dentists to deploy, just to treat soldiers on post. They are to busy jerking us around to have us actully treat patients. I just wasted a month of my life at NTC in preperation for deployment this fall, I think I treated 10 soldiers during the month. They would never pull you from the AF and stick you in the Army. you may have to work on an army installation, but hey you AF people would get a substandard living condition allowance for your trouble. GO ARMY.
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If that were the case, I'd bet those signed with the AF would still follow AF protocol, meaning no 15 month tours/deployments etc. They'd probably follow AF standards i'd bet.
Just a note to everyone, The Army Dentist's deployment is only 6 months, as long as you are under the Dental Corps. A few dentist, I think the number is in the mid-30s out of 900+ Dental Officers are out of the Dental Corps "arena". If you are one of the very few who are out of the Dental Corps "arena" (i.e. in a Division, Brigade slot) then you will go as long as the Division goes. This could be as little as 3.5 months like one of my friends did with The 3rd Infantry Division or could be 12 months or so.
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Just a note to everyone, The Army Dentist's deployment is only 6 months, as long as you are under the Dental Corps. A few dentist, I think the number is in the mid-30s out of 900+ Dental Officers are out of the Dental Corps "arena". If you are one of the very few who are out of the Dental Corps "arena" (i.e. in a Division, Brigade slot) then you will go as long as the Division goes. This could be as little as 3.5 months like one of my friends did with The 3rd Infantry Division or could be 12 months or so.
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From what I've been told its 6 months for those who are assigned through the PROFIS(sp?). If you are assigned to a field unit then it is 15 months, maybe they've changed that?😕
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From what I've been told its 6 months for those who are assigned through the PROFIS(sp?). If you are assigned to a field unit then it is 15 months, maybe they've changed that?😕
blankguy,
I think we are saying the same thing. The bottom line is if your boss is The Dental Corps than you should go for only 6months, if you are assinged to a line unit (infantry, etc.) and they are now your "boss" then you will go for as long as they go. I would say it usually is 12months, but can be shorter or longer. The last number I saw was only 36 Dental Officers out of 912 are not under The Dental Corps. *The number is subject to change but only by a few + or -....
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blankguy,
I think we are saying the same thing. The bottom line is if your boss is The Dental Corps than you should go for only 6months, if you are assinged to a line unit (infantry, etc.) and they are now your "boss" then you will go for as long as they go. I would say it usually is 12months, but can be shorter or longer. The last number I saw was only 36 Dental Officers out of 912 are not under The Dental Corps. *The number is subject to change but only by a few + or -....
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Yeah, I couldn't understand what you were saying.
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If you're talking about deployment - right now all of our in lieu of taskings are by volunteer only.
If you're talking about training programs - Each service hosts members from the other services from time to time in their programs. If the AF has a need for more of a certain specialty than we can produce and the Army or Navy has training slots, an AF dentist will sometimes fill those slots. The AF also trains Army and or Navy dentists as well.
If you're talking about training programs - Each service hosts members from the other services from time to time in their programs. If the AF has a need for more of a certain specialty than we can produce and the Army or Navy has training slots, an AF dentist will sometimes fill those slots. The AF also trains Army and or Navy dentists as well.
