Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I have seen on numerous occasions Navy-wide where PCS costs drove detailing and even career-track decisions. Not just aviation. It happens. From the tax-paer perspective it makes sense. From the service-member perspective it blows.
Tell it to Grumble. He thinks its B.S.
Originally Posted by
rickair7777
But Navy helo guys who get FW time as an IP or at a regional are a shoe-in for the bigs.
That's how it worked out for me. 2nd duty station got me both H-46 and C-12 time. That lead to VR squadrons as a TAR flying VC-131H and C-9B. It just took 5 extra years of active duty to get the quals I needed to get my Major airline job.