Originally Posted by
gamerbro65
So my dad's been worried that I'm not fully aware of what I'm getting myself into with the Marines, and so he had me call a friend of his who knows a little bit about what's really going on with the Marines.
That friend said that he knows a guy with a flight contract who has been to OCS and TBS, and he was waiting to go to flight school. Well, because flight school was so backed up, they just sent him to Afghanistan as an Infantry officer. What this friend wanted me to get out of that story is that you're a Marine first, and then a pilot, and that basically it's not what your contract says.. it's what they need you to do.
What can anyone tell me about this?
How often do you think this happens to air contracted marines?
This applies to every branch of service. I'm sure he'll eventually get back to flight school, but production pipelines are backed up everywhere, rather than have you work on your alcohol tolerance in Pensacola, they'll put you to work if needed.
I've never heard of guys getting yanked from training to go do an operational tour like that, but a 2ndLT fresh out of TBS with a potential for no movement in the aviation pipeline for 6 months is an ideal candidate to fill an infantry officer billet in the short term.