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Old 08-28-2019, 09:47 PM
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paulcg77
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Originally Posted by Tini View Post
Focus on doing well at UPT. Then focus on mastering your mission. Fly as much as possible. Volunteer for every tdy and deployment. If you do those things you’ll end up at a major airline with plenty of time to make the money. I wouldn’t even worry about the “take full time orders versus regional” question yet.
This. Fly your ass off in the guard. Volunteer for everything. Go active guard or even consider 1-2 year Title 10/ADT/ADOS (or whatever it's called these days) orders and get AC qualified as soon as possible. If you can do a lot of C17 flying on active duty for a few years, I'd do that over a regional. In addition to the fact that C17 PIC time as an AC is (pound for pound) more valuable than FO on a CRJ-200, you're also building reserve retirement points that count towards your military pension. Every single IDT drill and every day of Title 10/ADOS counts for your reserve pension, even with that bull**** BRS pension system they've introduced for guys like you who joined after 2018.
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