Now called a "line technician", fancy for the guy that fuels small planes, washes and cleans, helps the mechanics, does scheduling--all around guy. Don't go to the big airline airport, find one with a small flight school, maybe a rich guy with a Bonanza or the local airline pilot hangs out. With luck you might get some cheap flying. No license required.

Just get a degree, "rush" the unit of your choice, more than one is fine--I did three in the Northeast. State ANG do offer tuition assistance to members, if you enlist. You don't need to do so, I didn't, neither did the 15 or so guys and gals I sent to UPT. Some were unit enlisted flight crew, though. It's a long career, you Wong fix it in weeks or months.

No prior training other than OCS for 12 weeks nowadays. You will need some flight time to be selected, but some unit slots have been going begging.
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