By pipeline
Where you're headed, and how lodging works when you get there
Each pipeline has different housing arrangements — BAH on a PCS, or authorized lodging and meal allowances on a TDY. Pick yours for the bases, the guides, the tools, and the notes from people who did it.
~52 weeks · PCS
UPT
A year at Columbus, Laughlin, Vance, or Sheppard learning to fly the T-6 and then your track aircraft — on a schedule that starts before dawn and doesn't care where you sleep.
Columbus AFB · Laughlin AFB · Vance AFB · Sheppard AFB
Open 026–9 months · TDY
B-Course
The basic course in your fighter — F-35 at Luke, F-16 at Holloman/Kelly, F-15E at Seymour Johnson, A-10 at Davis-Monthan, F-22 at Langley — and the longest TDY most fighter pilots ever take.
Luke AFB · Davis-Monthan AFB · Holloman AFB · Seymour Johnson AFB · JB Langley-Eustis
Open 033–4 months · TDY
PIT
The instructor pipeline at JBSA-Randolph (T-6, T-38, T-1) that turns FAIPs and returning line pilots into IPs.
JBSA-Randolph
Open 04~2–3 months · TDY
IFF
The T-38 bridge between UPT and a fighter B-Course, flown at Columbus, Sheppard, or Randolph.
Columbus AFB · Sheppard AFB · JBSA-Randolph
Open 053 years + PIT · TDY or PCS
FAIP
Selected at drop night to stay and instruct: PIT at Randolph on TDY, then three years back at a UPT base on PCS orders.
JBSA-Randolph · Columbus AFB · Laughlin AFB · Vance AFB · Sheppard AFB
Open 066 weeks – 1 year · TDY or PCS
Tech school
Keesler, Sheppard, Goodfellow, Lackland, Vandenberg — the schoolhouses that turn AFSCs into careers, and the largest TDY populations in the Air Force.
Keesler AFB · Sheppard AFB · Goodfellow AFB · JBSA-Lackland · Vandenberg SFB
OpenMission-ready lodging
Your orders are cut. Your lodging is handled.
Send your base, dates and reason for stay — we'll match you with a furnished crashpad at the government rate.