USAF COT going away

[allanMED15]

I am currently HPSP with the Air Force and at COT right now. I thought that it would be worthwhile to mention for those browsing that the 5.5 week COT that we go through is going away and is going to be replaced with a combined 8 week course with TFOT.

I am sure that AFIT has a plan, but I do not know how HPSP students will be able to complete their training requirement with it being 8 weeks.

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[HalluxSlicer]

I am currently HPSP with the Air Force and at COT right now. I thought that it would be worthwhile to mention for those browsing that the 5.5 week COT that we go through is going away and is going to be replaced with a combined 8 week course with TFOT.

I am sure that AFIT has a plan, but I do not know how HPSP students will be able to complete their training requirement with it being 8 weeks.

Whats TFOT?

 

[njones9]

Whats TFOT?

Total force officer training.

 

[The.ToothFairy94]

Total Force Officer Training

Whats TFOT?

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[Apollyon]

"And, in a photo finish, it's a dead heat!"

 

[gobiza]

is that confirmed? I haven't heard it before.... mine is coming on October

 

[Monty Python]

I am currently HPSP with the Air Force and at COT right now. I thought that it would be worthwhile to mention for those browsing that the 5.5 week COT that we go through is going away and is going to be replaced with a combined 8 week course with TFOT.

I am sure that AFIT has a plan, but I do not know how HPSP students will be able to complete their training requirement with it being 8 weeks.

He didn't have to go as a former USAF line officer, but back in the day a friend went to USAF MIMSO (military indoctrination for medical service officers) at Lackland AFB Medina Annex. A whopping three weeks of cup and saucer school. No PT, no PT test, etc. This later morphed into the current COT.

Even though I had been NROTC I went to Navy Direct Commission Officer course also back in the day. 2.5 weeks of country club. No PT. Private VOQ room with maid service. Fun watching a soon-to-retire USMC senior drill instructor (who had pulled many tours at Parris Island) not lose his bearing trying to instruct commissioned medical officers how to march. Good times.

 

[DD214_DOC]

Read the stuff coming from DHA. Long-term goal is to ditch PROFIS and have all physicians across the enterprise in operational positions — meaning with operational units. The days of being parked in an MTF until your PROFIS number comes up are gone.

Eliminating officer pretend time in favor of something more in line with actual officer basic, I assume, is part of this.

 

[turkish]

Read the stuff coming from DHA. Long-term goal is to ditch PROFIS and have all physicians across the enterprise in operational positions — meaning with operational units. The days of being parked in an MTF until your PROFIS number comes up are gone.

Eliminating officer pretend time in favor of something more in line with actual officer basic, I assume, is part of this.

Was this in the DHA IPM? Very interesting.

 

[DD214_DOC]

Was this in the DHA IPM? Very interesting.

I don’t think this part was in the IPM, as that document pertains to operations within the MTF. The death of PROFIS and related info came from a brief with our previous regional consultant.