Listen to this guy. Current relatable gouge. Why spend 10-12 years doing active duty crap when you'll be airline ready in a few years in the guard/reserve.

 

PTB,

I hate Auto Correct and CRS because remember what I intended.

GF

* Can't Remember ******

 

Thanks, I now need to get a new laptop.

 

A guy in my class invented an alternative route--ATC Commander's Trophy, SIE from F-15 RTU, get C-141.

GF

 

Academy classmate of mine went to ENJPT, got the A-10 and became a conscientious objector. Don't know what happened to him after that. Rumor is the Wing/CC basically called him a POS for doing that.

 

If an FEB is the official version of Wing/CC calling one a POS, that's what happened to my classmate. MPC didn't agree and sent him to Altus.

GF

 

All of the previous typers are correct. DO NOT go active-duty. The Guard/Reserve is the only way to go. The 10-year active-duty service commitment post SUPT graduation is hell.

 

Fact

As soon as you are done with Mission Qual in your manned airplane (assuming you didn't get RPAs in pilot training), you will start the downward spiral of flying less and less the older you get with more and more queep unrelated to the mission. You will become unproficient and your hours will barely crawl by. Mileage may vary depending on what you fly. You have little to zero input on where you are stationed and eventually will probably end up in a desert hotspot 365 working power points instead of flying.

With guard/reserves, after your seasoning tour and 750, you can get your ATP, get on with a regional and build hours fast and eventually get to a major. You also get to still serve your country/ deploy if you want to etc.

Make no mistake, active duty does not provide any special product that the guard/reserves do not provide to air power. The ground pounder you will probably support as a cargo guy could care less whether the pilots airdropping or offloading his supplies are active duty or guard/reserve, same could be said about the guys dropping bombs or providing ISR.

Now, if you don't have interest in flying for a career and want to climb the career ladder, active duty is your answer.

 

Here I am, currently active duty, with 8 more years on my service commitment trying to figure out when I can palace chase and start flying for the airlines.

 

If you sleep 12 hrs a day, it's only a 5 yr commitment