Grade Waiver Inquiry
Professional Soldiers,
I have put my official request into the USAF for a early release from my contract, to be effective October 27th 2014, in hopes of obtaining a 18X contract.
The only problem is that I'm currently an E-5 and the prior service business rule's state that 18X contract are only open to E-1 through E-4. Through quite a bit of research I've found that this is a waiverable situation.
As it stands now I'm at risk of being separated from the Air Force and not having a 18X contract available. This is the worst case scenario but I'd be willing to do just about anything to ensure that I'm afforded this opportunity. To include enlisting as another MOS and dropping a SF packet at a later date.
My questions to this community are this.
1. What is the likelihood of a pay-grade waiver being approved given the current state of the Army's SF needs, who is the approval authority, and what is the process for this? So I might know who to reach out to.
2. How difficult is to get picked up for SFAS as a fresh prior service E-5 in the Army serving in a non-related MOS?
3. If my recruiter does not seem competent with SF recruiting should I contact another recruiter? I'm currently stationed in Alaska and the closest SF recruiter is in Washington. I don't want to be short changed and not have the right chains pulled to make this waiver fly.
Thank you all for all the information you've already provided on these forums and all that you have done and continue to do.
Respectfully,
- Tsircou
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