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Got it, thanks for the information. I'm not sure if those particular C17 pilots are going to the MC12 for a one and out or if it's a full PCS. They may not have known since it sounds like a pretty recent thing that a lot of C17 guys are getting sent to MC12s, and based on the bad gouge they apparently gave us regarding 38 guys and the whole AMC/ACC thing...who knows. But by the way they were talking about it, it sounded as if it were a full 3+ year PCS and that they likely would not be coming back to the C17.

Yea, I thought what they were saying didn't jive. Thanks for everyone's input. Perhaps more "realistic"...anyone know about C17 bubbas getting into special programs like U2s?

I'm a 38 guy that got a C17 out of pilot training. Just finished the schoolhouse here at Altus and the IPs were telling my training partner and I how bad things are currently in the 17 community for guys coming up on their next assignments...apparently almost nobody has been getting an ops-to-ops tour; rather, they are getting sent to RPAs, MC12s, ALOs, etc. The best assignment honestly that some have received is a T6 to UPT... Some of the IPs I talked to seemed to think that since I was a 38 guy that ACC still "has a hold on me" and that I may only get one tour in the 17 as well before getting farmed back to ACC to either be RPA/MC12 (like everyone else recently) or to "other" ACC assets (fighters/bombers/recon?), or go back to UPT as a 38 instructor. Anyone out there heard anything along these lines? I really am happy with my assignment to 17s and obviously I'd prefer to stay in the 17 vice going to RPAs or MC12s, but if they offered me the chance to go to a fighter or bomber on my next assignment I'd consider it. Any 17 guys out there crossflowed to other aircraft, or done special programs like the U2? Hopefully things won't look so bleak for 17 guys coming up on assignment in the next few years...