u/Kinmuan

#Please see MILPER 26-353 for full information

General: This initiative is an Army Aviation program with the objective to select an Officer tojoin a functioning team to develop Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) and Program ofInstruction (POI) for operation, maintenance, and integration of the MV-75 Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA). Members of the Operational Development Team (ODT) will providewarfighter representation in operational tests and lead development of tactics, techniques, andprocedures during MV-75 development. Through coordination with the Human ResourcesCommand (HRC) Aviation (AV) Branch, the Aviation Center of Excellence (AVCOE)Commanding General will select a highly qualified Officer to support the MV-75 ODT at AVCOE.The ODT is intended to be an invaluable source of U.S. Army tilt-rotor expertise that is essentialto the development and fielding of the FLRAA. Participants will be a select group of individualswith demonstrated exceptional technical expertise and great potential to lead in future MV-75organizations. If selected for the program, participants may be eligible to receive V-22 or tilt-rotor familiarization or qualification training based on U.S. Army and joint service availability.This program is one of many broadening experiences to enhance the participant's professional development

Eligibility Requirements.

a. Military Occupational Skills (MOSs)/ Area of Concentration (AOC) Requirements: 15B/C-O3.

b. Additional Requirements:

(1) Rated crewmembers must be a Pilot-in-Command (PC) with a minimum 50 hours PC (non-waiverable).

(2) Additionally, all personnel on flying status are medically qualified for flight duty (Pilot StatusCode 1) and remain medically qualified for flight duty throughout this assignment.

(3) DA Form 4187 approved and signed by the Brigade Commander or first 0-6 in the chain ofcommand.

(4) Current DA Form 759 Individual Flight Record and all DA Form 7122-Rs.

(5) DD Form 2992 Flight Physical, current within the past 12 months of the date of packetsubmission.

Packet Submission: Submit packets to the HRC AV inbox at usarmy.knox.hrc.mbx.mprd-od-aviation-officers@army.mil. Packets must be scanned and sent as one Adobe PDF File.Packets sent as Adobe Portfolio will be returned without action. The deadline to submit a packetis 12 October 2026. We encourage Service Members to contact their Talent Managers, with questions related to the program and packet submissions.

Service Members will receive selection or non-selection results via their official Departmentof Defense (DOD) email address in the Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army (IPPS-A).If selected for the assignment, participants can expect a 36-month utilization at Fort Rucker,Alabama. Additionally, all selected Service Members will move no later than (NLT) the OfficerMarket Cycle (OMC) 27-02.

The MOS Discussion Threads are meant to be enduring threads where individuals with experience or insight in to particular CMFs or MOSes can give advice and tips. If you have any MOS resources, schools, etc, this would be a great place to share them.

The hope is that these individual threads can serve as 'megathreads' on the posts in question, and we can get advice from experienced persons. Each week I will keep the full listing/links to all previous threads in a mega-list below, for ease of reference. At the end of the series I will go back and ensure they all have completely navigable links

If you have specific questions about these MOSes, please feel free to ask here, but know that we are not forcing or re-directing all questions to these threads -- you can, and are encouraged, to still use the WQT.

This is not stricly an 'AMA', although if people would like to offer themselves up to answer questions, that would be great, and I'd ask that you give some reference to your expertise if you do. A big "Thank You" to everyone who is willing to answer questions about the MOSes in question, but the immediate preference would be for informational posts. These are meant to be enduring sources of information.

These only work with your participation and your feedback!

Common questions / information I'd recommend sharing to get started

• Day to Day Life
• "What's a deployment like?"
• Career Advancement/Growth Opportunities
• Best Duty Station for your MOS

So, again, willing to answer questions is great, but if there's any information you can impart now, I think that would provide the greatest benefit.

This thread covers the following MOSes:

• 18A Special Forces Officer
• 180A Special Forces Warrant Officer
• 18B Special Forces Weapons Sergeant
• 18C Special Forces Engineer Sergeant
• 18D Special Forces Medical Sergeant
• 18E Special Forces Communications Sergeant
• 18F Special Forces Intelligence Sergeant
• 18X Special Forces Candidate
• 18Z Special Forces Senior Sergeant

#DO NOT:

• Ask MOS questions unrelated to those listed. "How did your duties compare to a 19D when deployed?" or "Is it true an MP Company carries more firepower than an IN Company" are fine. "While this is up, what's 92F like?" is not.
• Do not ask random joining questions. If your question isn't about the MOSes listed, then it probably belongs in a different Megathread, the Weekly Question Thread, or a new post.

2026 Megathread Listing

Will be populated as threads are created

Looks like you’re safe from having to attend /u/superash2002

Because this keeps coming up, I'll put it out there.

Over the last few weeks there have been some visits where SMA and other CSMs have discussed upcoming potential changes to the PT Test.

I expect it to either be announced at Manuever Warfighter next week, or, what I believe to be more likely, AUSA next month.

These changes include;

• Reverting to a three event test
  • Hand Release Push-Ups
    • The minimums will stay, the maximums will increase
  • Plank
  • 2 Mile Run
    • The 2 Mile run times will get faster - think about 60-90 seconds off the old APFT times, or about 2-3 minutes faster than right now.
  • Getting rid of MDL and SDC
    • This will also result in an 'equipmentless test' that can once again be run wherever you have dry ground and a 2 mile course.
• CFT - Will get closer to 25 minutes versus the current 30. No event changes, but the timeline will get shorter.

I will go ahead and say that I have confidently sourced this from multiple people, and I expect to see an article in advance of AUSA.

Additional commentary that is surrounding this that I can't further confirm is that they may be doing away with age scaling. This was something that could not get off the ground with the ACFT and I expect will not make it to final release.

SMA and CSA were at Leavenworth a couple weeks ago, and this was said to the room that was there, as well as in another senior leader meeting this week.

For those of you who have been around a while, I'm involved in a lot of stuff. Generally I just push that information to journalists. We are in a tight situation at the moment;

Army Times has not really recovered since the VC shredded the news room last year. Military.com got bought by Valnet and is awful and AI-riddled with few 'first run' stories these days. Task and Purpose recently lost a senior reporter in Jeff Schogol, and is still working on staffing a replacement. Stars and Stripes is...tough at the moment (Although all the love in the world to Rose Thayer, Corey D, and Chad Garland over there, it's rough going I'm sure). So I'm running out of places to throw this information, and I'd like to centralize some of the rumor threads that are popping up.

You don't have to believe me - but I feel pretty confident telling you that the above has been discussed, by SMA, to multiple rooms of individuals. Some commentary I was given was a rough quote from part of the discussion:

>"I can't tell you the details as it's about to be published, but the run times are about to get harder...The AFT run times are a joke. Anyone can walk and pass that and expect those times to drop as well."

I do not like to usually engage in any sort of 'original' reporting, but trying to put some control on the rumors.

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