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    Navy Jet Attrite to ANG? AF Reserves?

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

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    On 8/11/2019 at 6:22 AM, CharlieHotel47 said:

    Guard. From what I understand, AD aviation is like a 6 yr jail sentence. I was fortunate to fly 47s and stayed away from the gun dudes. SC apaches are always hiring. They just got back from a 18 months deployment and there’s usually a massive exodus of pilots.


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    Do you have any leads or contact info? I'd be interested in flying the Apaches. I'm a non prior by the way.

    Upcoming Boards

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

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    1 hour ago, iRobot said:

    Congratulations once again to all the folks interviewing this weekend! I was reaching out to see if anyone is interested in getting together this Friday night for some dinner and/or drinks; would be a great way to hang out and get to know one another. DM me if you are interested. 

    Which squadron?

    DD214 with application

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

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    Should I include a DD214 in my applications, when it says I was in for only 26 days? I have mixed feelings about this because I was at Navy OCS for a month. Discharged for sitting height (able to fit in USAF aircraft though) and eyesight (got PRK-no complications). Perhaps I should attach a note with my DD214. 

    Guard/Reserve Fighter Applicant

    in What Are My Chances?

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    Here are my scores, as well as my interesting background. 

    AFOQT: 98/61/40/33/50

    PCSM: 97

    Flight hours: 1300

    Flight Ratings: PPL, Instrument, Commercial, CFI, ATP (ERJ 170/190 type rating)

    Age: 22

    College: 3.80 GPA, B.S. in Aviation Management, A.A.S. In Aviation Flight

    LORs: PPL instructor, Retired navy captain, prior Civil Air Patrol Squadron commander

    Volunteer work: Civil Air Patrol (Transport mission pilot, Billy Mitchell award recipient)

     

    My background:

    I was at Navy OCS last February with a pilot slot (SNA-Studnet naval aviator). I was there for about a month before I got discharged for 2 medical reasons. The first was eyesight due to astigmatism. I got PRK surgery March 2018 on my own dime and it’s been over a year, no complications. The other medical issue was my sitting height. I’m 6’3” with a sitting height of 39.4”. The navy has 4 aircraft pipelines; strike, E2/C2, helicopters, and Maritime. You needed to be eligible for a minimum of 2 of 4 pipelines, and my sitting height was too tall for the T45 goshawk, which canceled out the strike and E2/C2 pipelines, as well as the UH-57 which canceled out the helicopter track for me. Because I was only eligible for one pipeline (maritime) I could no longer be a student naval aviator. The base commander said I could choose any other naval officer job, such as SWO or Supply, but I decided to discharge and continue flight instructing to be a regional airline pilot, which is what I’m doing right now. I don’t know if this experience helps or hurts. It could help because it shows that I’m not giving up on becoming a military pilot, but it could hurt because I really want to serve and the interviewees might ask why I just didn’t do another naval officer job then. 

    I plan on taking the AFOQT over again, but I will be applying with my current scores and just see where it goes.

     

    TBAS

    in General Discussion

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    52 minutes ago, mb1685 said:

    I can’t really think of a reason you’d need it for the TBAS. I guess for the multi-tasking portion, but if you took the time to write down the items you have to (short-term) memorize, that would probably get you so behind that you’d bomb it anyway. You can’t tend to the other simultaneous tasks if you’re tied up writing things down (and subsequently looking at the things you wrote down).

    There's a YouTube video of doing the orientation test super easy using a piece of scratch. I can always ask the test proctor

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