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I have a few questions regarding the 2A332 program. First off, I am in DEP at the moment. I leave in Mid April. I am completing my 3rd semester at an Electronic Engineering Tech School. I Decided to do Avionics as it has always been a Dream/Aspiration to work on F-16s. However i am curious about the F-22 Program aswell. How does an individual like myself go about getting into a program such as that? Do you have to go through the F-16 program to be selected into the F-22 Avionics Program?

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No you do not have to have prior experience on the F-16 to get into the Raptor program. They are part of the same AFSC now, 2A3X2. We are getting newbs right of tech school on the Raptor.

Excellent, I gathered the F-22 program would start increasing in size due to the F-15 being phased out and the given fact that the F-35 are up and coming. I appreciate it.

One surefire way to get into F-22 avionics is to join the Virginia Air National Guard. It's currently the only ANG unit to fly the Raptor, so if you get Avionics there, you automatically get Raptors.

I signed for Active Duty on a four year term with the Airforce. I have read previous posts about the F-16 Avionics program. Tech School is roughly 3 months correct?

I think avionics is much longer than 3 months.

Tech school is not 3 months. You will spend close to about 12 months in training. Basic training is at Lackland AFB and will last about 10 weeks, Electronic Principles will be about 2 months and the F-16 Avionics Systems course is at Sheppard and will last 5 months. You do not start class as soon as you get to base, you usually have 1-2 weeks before class starts and you are assigned to a processing flight. Good luck, classes are interesting and it is a great program.

Granted, this is how it used to be, but I have not heard of it changing. I went through the program in 2002.

I was informed by a Recruiter that was an instructor For the F-16 Avionics program. He said the same aswell.

Funny how they taught us the same stuff in six weeks at Lowry AFB, way back in 1982.

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nam11b wrote:

Tech school is not 3 months. You will spend close to about 12 months in training. Basic training is at Lackland AFB and will last about 10 weeks, Electronic Principles will be about 2 months and the F-16 Avionics Systems course is at Sheppard and will last 5 months. You do not start class as soon as you get to base, you usually have 1-2 weeks before class starts and you are assigned to a processing flight. Good luck, classes are interesting and it is a great program.

Granted, this is how it used to be, but I have not heard of it changing. I went through the program in 2002.

There is a dedicated tech school for Raptors now. I don't think any of the F-16 pipeline students are being sent to F-22s anymore. Tech school is roughly the same length though.

JoeSambor wrote:

Funny how they taught us the same stuff in six weeks at Lowry AFB, way back in 1982.

And they expected you to understand what Kalman filters did and they taught you how to read a "real" scematic (no block diagrams...)

Smitty

Hey, we got to use the HT-900 and put together a wafer connector...we were good to go!

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