Spoke to a Guard recruiter found via the AF Personnel website today. The bottom line: the Guard is not interested in a retirement eligible prior from another service. Maybe the one I spoke to was not familiar or it's just a reflection of all services downsizing. I'd gladly fly AF 130s/135s, Coast Guard 130s, NOAA, Customs or anything else, but I can't seem for find a way to connect the dots. Getting started on the outside? I spent the day looking at regional airline FO pay rates and I just can't believe a McDonalds manager makes more per year. That's criminal. The Buffalo crash was not an accident, it was calculated risk that a poverty stricken PIC & FO sleeping on couches would not crash a plane. How'd that work out?