Originally Posted by
XHooker
The other possibility is an interservice transfer. This was popular in the mid 80s (Marine to Navy after TBS) and early 90s (Navy to Marine after flight school getting sent to TBS). It just depends on who has openings. As to being guaranteed flight school... sort of. After the fall of the Soviet Union, many students were told you can leave or complete as an NFO, but we're not going to keep you as an aviator. Needs of the Navy and all that jazz.
I saw this first hand. My group of Marines in flight school went to the Senior Marine to basically try and stop one such transfer. That was the same time when the USN was giving out the dreaded "boat orders", and this one guy thought that he could get around it by trying for the transfer.
I remember hearing about the Marine to Navy transfers but never saw it first hand.
Needs of the service is ALWAYS #1 - no doubt. Rules will be made, bent, and broken based on the needs of the service.
USMCFLYR