Flying for the Air National Guard vs. AD gives you the choice/flexibility to do both, that's why so many here recommend it.

There's much less political BS in the squadron than on Active Duty, and the option to fly for the airlines at the same time.

 

Every reply so far has a grain of truth, some not so much. It really comes down to what you want to do and more importantly, what airplane you want to fly. If you can perform under pressure and max out academically/during check flights. You can choose your destiny in most places (Number 1 almost always gets first choice in selection for platform or location) if you just show up and like to party, you'll get what you get. You probably have or had a poster of a particular plane on your wall that you've been drooling over since you were a toddler. If that's what you want, go do it. If you want to fill a logbook with heavy time to position yourself for an airline career 10 or more years in the future, do that. Yep, you'll get some deployments and spend some time out of the cockpit, but every AD service will have some type of staff job or service school that will put flying on hold. Just realize you can fly pointy grey jets and still do the airline gig down the line. For those poo pooing Navy, I just retired at 22 years. I only did 9 months of that out of the cockpit and did most of 3k hours in Hornets. I just got hired at AA, so you don't have to fly heavies to be able to make the move to airlines. Good luck with your decision..

 

Your right. Af air mission due to be replaced by drones and unsustainable due to need for foreign bases.
Navy just needs ocean.

 

Divide that by about 100 and you've described the A-4.

I can't believe the Bob Norris' "Navy or Air Force" hasn't been posted, yet. It's a classic, it's funny and true. I'd do it, but I'm technologically challenged (kinda like the A-4).

 

If you haven't seen it yet, the letter at the link below is worth a read. Somewhat true but maybe talking about the services a few years back.
Fighter Pilot University :: Navy v Air Force Career

 

Classic and funny, for sure.

True... ?
- the ironing flight suits is a fallacy the Navy loves to believe.
- the "girl" in Singapore is actually a tranny.

 

There should be a safety brief given on this before liberty. Sadly, there isn't...

 

Maybe an exaggeration, but scarves... really?
Unfortunately, that's a distinct possibility. As they say... "you pay your money and take your chances."

 

Wasn't it the AF that wanted to turn the flight suit into a uniform instead of a piece of flight equipment and together the services agree to put creases into the flight suits in the early-mid 90s?

 

I was told the Navy has the best pilots. Is this true?