NCSA Acceptances 2015

[conca27]

Hi everyone! I just found out this morning that I got accepted to the Civil Engineering Familiarization Course. Please post what NCSAs you have been accepted to this year in this thread.

[Plane]

Sadface 

[PHall]

Sadface 

You stand a pretty good chance of going to Blue Beret. They'seem to always use people on the alternate list, every year.

[Plane]

Hmm, I wasn't aware of this.  Any idea how many alternate slots are typically filled?

[jeders]

Hmm, I wasn't aware of this.  Any idea how many alternate slots are typically filled?

Don't have any hard numbers, but a significant portion; both for cadets and for senior staff. That said, you've applied to 8 different activities, so odds are pretty good that you'll get selected for one of them.

[CadetSnuffy]

I know a cadet who was accepted for blue beret 3 hours before his plane left for Oshkosh.

[PHall]

Blue Beret uses a lot of their "alternates" because they are performing a "real world" mission and need a set number of bodies to do their job.

[MSG Mac]

NESA is always looking for students, and will accept late applications.

[Fubar]

Blue Beret uses a lot of their "alternates" because they are performing a "real world" mission and need a set number of bodies to do their job.

One does wonder why they are begging for the alternates to attend all the way up to a couple of hours before the activity begins. I'm guessing cadets (or their parents) underestimate the expense of getting out there.

[Salty]

I also suspect it has something to do with slotting in March for an activity in July.  That leaves a lot of time for real world stuff to show up and ruin your plans.

[MSG Mac]

All selectees have one month to fulfill the requirements paperwork, Payment, etc. If they don't the alternates are asked if they're still interested and they have a month to finish their requirements and then a second cull occurs.  Many things happen before the events which would preclude someone from attending. As Salty says " Life Happens"

[lordmonar]

Plus some times people are selected as primaries for more then one NCSAs.   So they may have to choose which they are going to.    Allowing alternates to go in their place in the others. 

[C. Fuentes-Padilla]

National Emergency Services Academy

Basic Ground Search and Rescue (GSAR)
Incident Command System School (ICSS) - BASIC

[Luis R. Ramos]

You may get an inkling of what is awaiting fer ya in next month's USAF evaluation after the Memorial Weekend.

Did ya like the O-Flight Sunday?

[Pulsar]

[Nryer]

 

[Huey Driver]

Sigh...

[Pulsar]

That bottom one is a given; no cadets I talk to ever seem to know what that is.