Hopefully two months doesn’t count as a necropost, if it does be nice to me since I’m new here. I didn’t vote as I couldn’t select within 2 weeks, 3 weeks, a month, or more than two. I’m the ATT secretary for my club, so I can give you a bit of insight into the process.

Assuming that the individual has completed an ATT course, or equivalent training, and the member is in good standing, a club can request an ATT. This requires that a letter be drawn up, and signed by two club executives. I am able to provide one of the signatures, so I physically need to meet with another club executive, usually the Range Director to get the second signature. Depending on our schedules it can take a few days to arrange to meet.

Since it takes the same amount of time to one as it does more than one, I usually wait 1-2 weeks before I draw up a letter, and add any requests from the previous two weeks. If I didn’t do it this way it would be a full time job. The bottom line is if you happen to submit a request the day after a batch was submitted you may need to wait a week or two, if I happen to have one that is outstanding it may get done that day.

Once the two signatures are in place the letter needs to be faxed to the CFO’s office. Once this is done it can take as little as two days, or as much as two months to get back, depending on how busy the CFOs is. Usually it takes 1-2 weeks to get back. I have requested them via email now, so I get them the day they were issued. In the past I would wait for the mail, and then had to make arrangements to get it to the member.

I always tell people to give me at least a month to get everything done. As a volunteer I don’t appreciated getting yelled at on a Friday when you have a match on Saturday, and just realized that your ATT is no longer valid. Although I do track when an ATT expires, I have no way to know when an individual has renewed their license unless they tell me.

I hope to be able to retire from this job once the ATTs are rolled into the RPALs.