142nd Fighter Wing, Oregon Air National Guard

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Undergraduate Pilot Program

The 142nd Fighter Wing is always looking for the best. Routinely, the 142nd Fighter Wing hires qualified candidates to attend Undergraduate Pilot Training. Unlike active duty F-15 pilots, the wing's pilots are a mix of full time, part time and Air Sovereignty Alert pilots allowing flexibility with full time jobs and other careers. All are dedicated to the base's mission... providing the highest caliber F-15 squadron in the world.

Undergraduate Pilot Training

The 142d Fighter Wing routinely hires candidates to attend UPT. The mission of the 142d Redhawks is to provide Air Sovereignty Alert for the Northwestern United States as well as projecting air power to foreign theaters as an expeditionary arm of the US Air Force. The normal flow of events for a UPT hire is to attend officer school (if necessary), complete UPT, complete Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals, complete F-15 Formal Training Unit at Kingsley Field and then come back to Portland for approximately two years of seasoning/upgrades. After that, the needs of the base and the performance of the pilot will dictate what jobs he/she will flow on to.

General Pilot Training Information

The link provided is an additional resource for generalized information concerning U.S. Air Force UPT.

Link: http://www.baseops.net/archive/archiveupt.html

This link is not sponsored by the 142nd Fighter Wing or the Air National Guard. Information provided by the Base Ops web site if for reference only.

Next UPT Hiring Board Date

The next Oregon Air National Guard UPT Selection Board will be held Jun 1&2 2013 at Kingsley Field ANG base, Klamath Falls, OR. Packages must be received by 14 Mar 2013 or they will not be considered. Electronic packages are required and may be sent to Lt. Col. Casson after 1 Mar 2013. Send electronic packages in a PDF format not to exceed 8Mb. Packages will be named with "Last name, First name, OR UPT 2013", For example, "Casson, Chris, OR UPT 2013.pdf".

Selected applicants should plan on arriving in Klamath Falls on 31 May 2013. Point-of-contact for information regarding Oregon's UPT Selection Board is Lt. Col. Chris Casson, JFHQ-OR-AC/A3, Director of Operations for Air, Oregon
Air National Guard, DSN: 830-6531, Comm: 541-885-6531,
chris.casson@ang.af.mil

The Oregon Air National Guard UPT Selection Board selects highly qualified applicants for interviews. Not all applicants will get an interview. Selected interviewees are then assigned a UPT slot from the 142nd Fighter Wing, Portland Air National Guard Base, Portland, Oregon, or the 173rd Fighter Wing, Kingsley Field, Klamath Falls, Oregon, based on the needs of the ORANG.

UPT - TBAS Testing AF Form 24

Application content and format are at the discretion of the applicant but will include as a minimum:

- AF Form 24, Application for Appointment as a Reserve of the Air Force
- AFOQT Scores
- Resume
- Educational Background (including GPA)
- Military Background (if applicable)
- Letters of Recommendation
- Current Photograph

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