JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. –
Have you ever thought about retraining into a different job? Are you a first term Airman within 13 months of your Date of Separation? Are you a career Airman looking to do something different? The Air Force can provide these opportunities through their retraining programs.
As a FTA, once you are 13 months from your DOS, you can apply for retraining as long as your record is clean and your commander has approved your reenlistment. If you are halfway through your enlistment, you can apply for Chronic Critical positions.
Your first step is to review the Retraining Advisory and research all the Air Force Specialty Codes that are currently open and you are interested in. Then there are just two additional steps in the process. The first is your eligibility request. Once approved, the Air Force Personnel Center will send you a checklist and the required documents that you will need to complete. After that you will then complete the required application and wait and see if you are selected and moving into a new Air Force career.
If you have already reenlisted in your current AFSC and you want to retrain, not all hope is lost. You now fall into the Non-commissioned Officer Retraining Program. Here is where you can apply for job opening for the ranks of E-5 through E-8, all the way up until your 16 year point. Some of the rules may change, but there are still opportunities for you to help fill the vacancies in open AFSCs.
There are other factors to determine your retraining eligibility that can be found in AFI 36-2626 (Airman Retraining Program). Everyone may have a unique situation. Visit the Joint Base Charleston's Professional Enhancement Center's CoP for more information or contact your Career Advisor at 963-2768 and make an appointment. I will be more than happy to explain all the required steps so you can start enjoying that new career.