Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
I know that a few communities take people from other services, but I think the bolded part above makes the question a little different in some respects (meaning harder than the average bear). Initial qual would mean time spent (and cost associated) with going through the RAG; isn't that right BDGERJMN?
Yes initial qual would be in the FRS and obviously there's a cost to doing that. CNAFR ultimately picks up the tab for those quotas, but in some cases I have seen the FRS soak up the overhead for the CAT III/IV syllabus. In fact one of the AF dudes I know in NOLA is back at the FRS doing his initial CQ(he did not obviously CQ in the TRACOM) so this will be his first time going to the boat and it will be in a gray jet.
Some good advice on here for the original poster in terms of what options are out there.