Originally Posted by
duece123
I am currently almost throught the 1st phase of flying in UPT (T-6's) and will soon go to corpus to train in a king air 90, then get spooled up in the C-130 for the Guard. My question is, do low time mil guys have the skill to go to a regional job right out of UPT? Any comments?
Not trying to start a mil. vs civ. argument as I have done both types of training. Just trying to look down the road a little bit.
Absolutely, seen it plenty of times before. In my opinion, you guys have the best of both worlds.
However, a guy I know is in a C130 unit that does tactical missions. He says that trying to do both the regional job and stay current checking off all the boxes for his mil gig is a pain in the a$$ as far as time off goes.
One more thing, and I'm not flaming you or any other military type. But if UPT has been the only training you have done, don't be that guy in regional ground school. You know, the guy that keeps poping off "well, in the military that's not how we do it", or, "it's not like that in the 130". Although you have valuable skills and training, the methods of the regionals may be different that what you have been used to so far.