Originally Posted by
rickair7777
UPT commitment started at commissioning I think in the 80's and prior. At some point they changed it to start at wings. Navy should be eight years... so about a ten-year obligation from commissioning, assuming you go pretty directly to flight school.
It was "X" years of rated service when I signed the line. I was a OTS FISHPOT type.
My initial UPT commitment was for 6 years, when I showed up to UPT, they had just changed it to 8. We had 2 choices: sign for 8 or bail. I took the 8. Never looked back
My uncle paid for all my flight training, let me fly the best fighter ever built for over 20 years. Small price to pay.
Had I to do it all over - Guard. Follow the advice here about the Guard.
EDIT: for some reason u/Mary Edwards' post I quoted didn't carry over only Ricks ???