Originally Posted by
Boomer
With USMC aviation you could start a little older, but after comissioning you have to serve in a rifle company for a year or more before you'll start flight training. Every Marine is a rifleman first.
I don't remember this...is it something new?
Marine aviators have to complete OCC and TBS before flight school of course. Their real exposure to ground-pounding usually comes on a FAC tour following their first (or second) squadron tour.