Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS)

[SSG]

Does anybody know how many applicants there were for the November 2016 listed?

[Hmmm2017]

I don't know, but I was one of them. Got to interview, then Blue Star over "Selection Decision".....and NOTHING since....

[boconnor]

Has anyone received a "stop sign" on their dashboard? I have not received any movement on my dashboard since February...but it still says "in progress" and no "stop sign" anywhere....weird.

I havent had any updates since applying also. Kinda forgot about this application for a while. Anyone else in the same boat?

[Speakezy019]

I received a ready pool email. Mine says in process and that they'll keep me on the list for up to a year.

[SSG]

I received a ready pool email. Mine says in process and that they'll keep me on the list for up to a year.

Just got mine as well. Where are you hoping to go?

[bellyer]

Congrats Speakezy019 and SSG! Welcome to the Ready Pool. It seems we are building up quite a group now. I think there are another 2-3 on here at least who are waiting with us. ☺

[NotThatGuy]

I just got my ready pool email last week, about 2 weeks after poly/medical. Good luck guys. It's been a long hard road so far

[tpearce71]

Waiting pool email for wfo

[Speakezy019]

Just got mine as well. Where are you hoping to go?

Boston which is out of chelsea.

[Mr.Green33]

Does anyone have any information on when the next training class will be, or has anyone reviced their final offer yet?

[Captwoosah]

Waiting pool folks. There's hope. Just got my FO after getting the pool email two months ago.

[Waitwait]

This has me more than reasonably excited considering I haven't gotten a FO myself.
What field office? What are your EOD and class dates??

[tpearce71]

Which FO? Class date??

[illini372]

Oh well. Finally got a reply. The blue star has been over the "Reviewing Minimum Requirements" or whatever since November with no green checkmark. After numerous calls and emails thinking they may have forgotten about me, they finally emailed me saying that I wasn't qualified. Even with a degree and Vet Pref. Good luck everyone.

[Huck&Finn]

Waiting pool folks. There's hope. Just got my FO after getting the pool email two months ago.

congrats. Been in the waiting pool since the middle of June. Hopefully i get my call soon. Is anyone going to the Chicago FO?

[Mr.Green33]

Captwoosah did they give you a training date, if you can DM me!

[Speakezy019]

Has anyone else in the ready pool received a final offer?

[marcusw2199]

Does the Federal Air Marshal service like hiring from the secret service uniform division? Air Marshal is my dream job and I'm just looking for advice on what steps I should take to land this just. Any suggestions?

[Esco]

A lot of East coast fams are former UD. Some of the FAMS I worked with and flew with are former UD. After 9/11 the FAMS got guys who could start quick, all the guys who can from UD early are all making 135k plus a year as flying FAMS.

[marcusw2199]

OK thanks guys...that eased my mind a lot. I'm about to get hired with UD so I just wanted to know if I had a slight chance.

[Esco]

Congratulations. If you keep perspective UD is a place to some awesome coin and have a good career.

[marcusw2199]

Thanks for the information. I'm definitely looking forward to it.

[BlueLineStrong]

Hey all! I'm SO glad I found this forum!!!

Over the past 2 days I read from page #125 or so! All the info contained here gives so much "clarity" to the process, I wish I had found this earlier!

Okay so hoping that someone or maybe a few people are in my same boat, It sounds like FAMS hiring is on a hold? In addition to comments hinting at such on here, I talked to a TSA Supervisor at the MSP airport during a layover I had for business...He indicated that I would probably see updates in / around October because new funding will be available once the new fiscal year is in place. When I call HR Access, I am told the same thing the dashboard says. I feel like I was pestering them with about 1 call every 2 weeks, so I have not called lately. If anyone is in the same general area as me, please lmk.

So my stats:

I checked all boxes for all 13 or so field offices that were available, but indicated Chicago as my first choice. All assessments so far were taken at the Chicago O'hare FO

Application: 3 Nov 2016
Met Application Req's: 6 Dec 2016
Assessment Battery: 29 Dec 2016
Field Office Assessment: 26 Jan 2017
Referred for selection: 24 Feb 2017
Selection Decision: 24 Feb 2017 (only have blue star above SD right now)

Some of the other users that Indicated Chicago I'm curious to know where you're at right now?
Frostbite 22 - bellyer - rms0012 - JCHI832017 - HuskerRed - ALBB - Huck&Finn

[BlueLineStrong]

Also just noticed @huck&finn

[bellyer]

I applied in October 2016. Have green checks all the way up through my medical. Just waiting on my Final Offer at this point.

[tpearce71]

I think we are all waiting on Congress to pass the new budget, which is supposed to be in October. In the event they do not pass one due to political conflicts, the agencies work off the previous years budget until the new one gets approved. This admin's budget calls for decreasing TSA however, since FAM's numbers are sensitive information we don't know if they are increasing, decreasing or staying the same per the proposed budget. Its the same with all agencies. ICE is waiting to open up hiring until October to get the 10,000 additional agents/officers they supposed to get under the executive order.