ANG/AFRC folks can go to CRP or stay at their respective UPT bases for Phase III, Active duty folks can do likewise. The one thing I have not heard of for ARC students is going Navy the whole way and only getting exposed to the AF way of business once they arrive at the C-130 school house. I am fairly certain ARC students will do Phase I and II at an AF base. It is rare but it happens to a few AD folks to go Navy the whole way, we had an IP here at DLF who never flew a jet until he became a T-37 IP after T-34/T-44/C-130s.

The idea that T-1s makes someone more universal is funny, considering that was the argument for everyone flying T-38s back in the day. The Guard Bureau used to try to keep a few folks from heavy outfits going to T-38s just in case they ever wanted to change units, but that program ended a few years back. Bottom line, if you graduate Phase II, you are fixed wing qual'd and what you fly in Phase III doesn't matter. A 130 dude from CRP can transition to C-17s/135s/KC-10s down the road, a rotor guy from Rucker can go to a 130 assignment, a fighter guy can hurt his back, get non ejection seat qual'd and go fly a heavy. The only thing that ain't going to happen is a fighter cross flow without having to go fly T-38 IFF as a minimum and in this day and age of shrinking budgets and fewer and fewer pointy noses to fly that is a very unlikely scenario.