[bdavis__]

My experience in the USAF. The tech school I was in lasted about 7 months. Every week we had tests. Drop 2 tests, and you moved over to "Bakery Operations School" two buildings over. It was a 2 week class and they always had openings.

Some people got lucky, it was always "convenience of the AF", and the list changed every week. You could wash into loadmaster or DLI, if your scores were good and there was an opening. But they wouldn't keep you on casual status very long, only a couple of weeks. Due to numbers, security police was common. Low score required, lots of demand, short tech school.

Now to casual status. We called it "AFI, Awaiting Further Instruction". The NCO supervising was always old and or bitter about the USAF. He was being forced to supervise a bunch of young airman against his will. The goal was to do a little smidgen of work, then hide until 4pm when the duty day was done. Don't get caught so the NCO had to really supervise.