Units are highly selective at all times, however, with the current state of the economy and the civilian aviation industry, units are extremely selective.

Therefore, you would need to get an age waiver soon, because most units have already had boards and selections for fiscal year 2011. Therefore, you would be waiting a long time just for boards, then selections, and if selected, you have another year wait. Hence you would be 29-30 when you started pilot training. You are looking at 3-4 years to even get into that units airframe if selected.

With no prior civilian flight time or Guard/Reserve contacts, I would say that is probably a loosing battle.

Not trying to be negative nancy, but there are alot of other opportunities that could be availabe to you, and you should aim for something that through your own hard work, you can actually acheive rather than leaving this unlikely gamble in the hands of others. You sound like a smart and motivated person, I would probably look in other directions if I were you.