Originally Posted by BeatNavy

If you already have a comm MEL almost in the bag (presumably a comm asel as well?), get a CFII add on (not difficult since you presumably have a mil comped H-CFII). All that time towards the ratings can be logged PIC. Then you can instruct, find a skydive job or some other entry level job, or something else to get the last 200 hours or so. not sure what your GI Bill situation is but you can get a lot out of that (a lot more than the $10k a year for flight training) if you go to an aviation university. I got about $50k of flight training and used 3 months of my 36 post 9/11. I'll try to PM you some more info when I get more time. That envoy program might work out well, but I'd hate to be tied to one specific regional for an average to not so great deal, which I don't really know with your situation what it would be.