Nearly 70 percent of the active-duty enlisted airmen and civilians who applied for Officer Training School were selected for the third class to be announced this year, the Air Force said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of the 272 OTS applications, the Air Force Recruiting Service chose 189, or 69.49 percent, to attend the 15OT03 class at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama, which will take place in 2016. Of those selected, 45 are enlisted airmen, and the remaining 144 are civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is the second class in a row in which the acceptance rate has topped 60 percent. In May, the Air Force said that 65.78 percent of the 599 applicants to attend the 15OT02 class were accepted. That was much higher than the 50.33 percent selection rate chosen for the first OTS board, which was announced in\u00a0March. However, it is not as high as the selection rate for the third class in 2012 \u2014 78.7 percent \u2014 or the third class in 2014, which was 76.57 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The higher selection rates are part of the Air Force’s strategy to beef up its officer ranks, which is a component of its overall plan to rebuild the entire force. In a May interview, Brig. Gen. Brian Kelly, director of military force management policy, said that <\/span>the Air Force admitted 520 candidates to attend OTS classes that take place in 2015, but expects to admit more than 1,100 candidates for the 2016 classes, which are now being announced. Those higher selection rates are helping OTS field more aspiring second lieutenants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n AFRS said the selection board members review both objective factors \u2014 such as applicants’ academic discipline, grade point average and Air Force Qualifying Test scores \u2014\u00a0and subjective factors. Those subjective factors include work experience, accomplishments, adaptability, character, leadership ability, potential for future growth,<\/span> and other recommendations. Active-duty enlisted applicants also have their performance reports and commanders’ recommendations evaluated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The selection process is similar to Air Force officer promotion boards, AFRS said, and applications are reviewed by three colonels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The list of selectees is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Enlisted<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Airman First Class Oseias Berto Civilians<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Brian Abrams Nearly 70 percent of active-duty enlisted airmen and civilians who applied for Officer Training School were selected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":65745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":67,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[12,16,67],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3320],"class_list":["post-35120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-transition","category-news","category-your-air-force"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"EZZDURD4RNBDZFHXZGTLWRTFZU","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-air-force\/2015\/09\/30\/officer-training-selection-rates-near-70-percent\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n