Originally Posted by
BeatNavy
I may be the minority, but rushing ANG/AFRC fighter units is your best bet imo. Get a degree and your ratings, start an airline career as you rush various units in your early 20s, and keep working towards both careers. You can be a fighter guy and a major airline guy in your 20s. Wish I’d known about the guard/reserve gigs before “college.”
Agreed. I commissioned out of AFROTC but if I had to do it again I would have gone straight to the guard/reserves and saved myself 11 years of active duty shenanigans.