Atlas Shrugged,

Thanks for the response! I hear you about WOJGs getting fixed-wing slots and 160th SOAR assessments. I know four WO1s straight out of flight school (two of which are street-to-seaters) who tried out for green platoon and got accepted. I know yet another WO1 who, while in flight school, got a call out of the blue from the Student Management Office. They offered him a fixed-wing follow-on course over the phone. He said yes, was interviewed the next day, and got the position. He found it more strange than I did, especially since his flight school credentials weren't exemplary from his peers.

Very cool about the C-23 assignment in the Guard! It's such a niche community in Army aviation, it seems like it has a lot of perks simply out of its obscurity. I've only met one other Sherpa pilot and he had nothing but good things to say about the aircraft. If you're okay with sharing, I'd be interested in hearing about some of the types of missions you flew.

Things are getting pretty ugly as of right now. A lot of it is unfounded talk, but the facts that are out there are looking pretty scary in terms of training and unit readiness.