What are the conditions on-base? Lodging is roughly split-up into two categories. Enlisted dorms — situated next to the chow hall and right across the street from the academics building. The main billeting building has been newly renovated and the rooms are nice.
Yes, things have changed, all the rooms have their own bathrooms. They are set up as a bedroom linked to a living room by a bathroom. The rooms are pretty nice.
Especially the newly remodeled buildings. Each billeting building has its own free laundry room averaging 2 washers and driers — sometimes the wait is quite long.
You can get a cable modem from Cebridge Communications installed in your billeting room. Sure saves on dial-up charges! Just installed the 1.
Update Jul 07 : They have now privatized the on-base housing completely. Your housing rate is your BAH rate for the local area. Keep in mind that the furnished housing also includes cable internet and vonage phone and all include a fenced back yard for doggies. It can really get annoying… Check out their website. Jul07 You need a non-A letter to live off base and get full per diem. You can refuse government quarters and still get partial per diem while living off base.
This should really help your apartment hunt. Thanks to Jon Rodgers. Benefits to being on-base? Also, most other students including your classmates are on-base and it is easier to talk to them, study, etc. Your rooms and parking are secure and the staff is generally good. Another consideration is driving thru the gate each time you need to go to class, sim, flight, gym, eat, etc… And remember, you will be in Threatcon B or C… What is bad about on-base?
Little Rock AFB will enforce by making individuals show their orders and billeting key. The rooms are so-so and the air-conditioning systems was typically weak although latest reports indicate the air conditioning is working good now. If you do decide to stay on-base, make your reservations early call more than 1 month prior to your report date, if able — they are in the middle of renovating the dorms, and if you do not call well ahead, you will be staying off base.
Also, make sure for your reservations you put a buffer add about 4 weeks on your graduation date at Little Rock. Very limited lines and it is a challenge to get an off-base line at times.
Thinking about an internet connection? You can do the standard AOL, etc… but expect very slow connection rates, You can get around this by talking for 59 minutes, hanging up, then dialing up again — it is a pain, and if you lose track of time, the charges add up. Benefits off-base? First and foremost is that you get more perdiem. Most of the hotels on the Contract Quarts List at billeting are absolutely awful.
I have first hand stories of rooms being robbed, cars broken into in parking lots, etc. If you do show up with the intent of being off-base, keep in mind that at any time if a room opens up on-base, you will be forced to move into it — even if it is at an inopportune time. You do have the option of refusing billeting when you check in this refuses on-base as well as off-base hotels — then it is your responsibility to find an apartment, etc.
The Links Apartments The Links is a fully-furnished Apartment complex in North Little Rock caters to a lot of military tenants — here is an update to what a stay at the Links is like as of September , as submitted by email:.
There was a string of break-ins within a week of my arrival: my roommate had his car window smashed in, and a buddy had someone come in through a window while he was asleep in the apartment.
An abandoned car has been sitting outside my apartment since I got here. During heavy rains, the entrance near my apartment floods and is under 3 ft of water. The worst, though, for those of us in school here, is their lease policy. I was supposed to graduate in the middle of September, but am now facing the possibility of not graduating until early October.
The plan worked; they had no rooms on base. Usually they Little Rock billeting pick from a list of contract quarters to get a room among the sub par hotels right off the gate. They have this list because apparently they have this deal with the local community Jacksonville, AR that they will send their overflow people to hotels there instead of North Little Rock.
Well, all the hotels on that list were also filled up. So the lady had no choice but to give me the nonavail slip reluctantly. Turns out Little Rock billeting is speaking out of both sides of their mouth.
The guest services manager at the Residence Inn is great and is trying to get more military business now that the base has stopped sending folks.
The guest services manager, Lana, is going to meet with the Billeting folks at Little Rock to try to get more business. I got in and got the lady to keep me off base. This was because just a couple of weeks ago the regs at Little Rock changed. Now, if your unit does not specify that AETC will pay for off-base billeting, they the unit will by default.
So if you get the right person at billeting, you can get the contract quarters letter or the non-avail slip if no contract quarters are available even if rooms are available on base.
The PSC is in the same building as the chow hall Building Mail can be forwarded here for General Delivery or you can get your own PSC mailbox this is recommended.
Call ahead and get your box number ahead of time before you start forwarding your mail instead of what many do—forwarding to PSC then getting here and having to change my forwarding info again.
For General Delivery:. The program is divided into several parts: Academics first, then CPTs cockpit procedural trainers , then Sims. This first part is dedicated to aircraft familiarization and pilot proficiency, i. VFR patterns, instrument approaches, and EPs.
Then you will go down to the flight line and fly with this focus. After a bit of this, you will go back to academics and go back to classes and sims for the Low-Level TacForm portion of the training. And then back to the flight line to fly these missions. IF you are a special guy, i. They will explain all of this to you- just know that some folks will be at Little Rock for only 6 weeks EC guys and other Non-Tac guys and some as long as 5 months.
There is so much Academics gouge available from previous classes and Office Max. Its well worth your while to hunt it down. Especially for Phase 2 and 3 academics.
The simulators are run by civilian contractors. They are mostly ex-herc guys with a wealth of knowledge and no kidding with several thousand hours of combat time Vietnam, mostly.
The sims run hours a day at the Rock. Yes, this means that you can end up with a brief time for a sim to be done at and debrief till — that is not a good deal, I had this slot. Usually the slots are dished out by rank or other means of dividing the pain. The sims are both motion and vis with detailed profiles and thorough briefings.
As before mentioned, most pre-brief for 3 hours, for a 3. Many of the sims are with Flight Engineer students and the FE instructor in the box as well. A decent amount of prep time including some homework assignments, TOLD, etc is required for each sim.
In practical terms.. This is MUCH cheaper and better quality than going to a place like Target or Wal-Mart and buying the clear contact paper and doing it yourself. I KNOW.. I already laminated one of my charts like that.. Never Again! How is the base? Little Rock is a large base. The new gym is probably one of the best gyms in the USAF — it is two-stories tall, with an indoor track, many windows and even mirrors to check yourself out in.
It is located across the street from academics and has flexible hours and is open most days of the year and it is located right next to the academics building, directly across from the chow hall. Large free weights area, indoor and outdoor basketball courts, nice outdoor sand-volleyball court, locker rooms, and tons of cardio equipment.
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