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    No Luck with Guard -- Should I go AD? Pros and Cons?

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

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    As many others have mentioned, visiting the same unit multiple times is what will really get you hired. Also if you can try to stay as local as possible that is something else units love to see. If you just want to fly consider rushing heavy units as they'll have a fraction of the applicants that fighter units get. Definitely nothing wrong with AD, just depends what your goals are and if you're willing to take any assignment. We're all just a little biased here.  

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    Track Selects and Assignment Nights

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    Vance 24-03

    F35
    C-146 Duke
    C130 ramstein
    KC-46 Pease 
    KC-135 Fairchild 
    C-21 Scott 
    B52 barksdale 
    T-6 faip from 38
    F16
    C17 Dover
    C17 JBLM
    F16
    F16
    KC-135 Fairchild 
    C-130 Little Rock 
    Kc-135 macdill
    C-17 Charleston 
    Mc-130 kirtland 
    RC-135 Offut 
    C-17 Hickam guard
    C-17 Charleston
    Kc-135 Birmingham TFI
    T-6 Faip 
    A10 Selfridge ANG
    C17 Charleston 

    Guard/Reserve timeline to UPT

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

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    On 7/21/2023 at 3:40 PM, hindsight2020 said:

    Going to SERE before UPT is uncommon. AFRC didn't always used to put people on continuous orders, for the record. This was a newly adopted technique once the AOR of pilot trainee management was subrogated to the 340th (a fairly recent evolution). Traditionally it had been the home unit that was responsible for procuring the training dates for their trainees, from OTS all the way to B-course and MQT (now TI).

    The centralization of student management to the 340th is generally a good thing for Guard guys, since their prior oversight while in the UPT pipeline has not always been smooth or funding continuous, if I may be euphemistic. AFRC has always had a more solid fund site and expediency of training scheduling than the ANG.

    The ANG has a ton of perks over AFRC, getting paid and getting expedient training is not two of them.

    BL, I wouldn't worry about getting sent to SERE before UPT. Not with those dates as listed. 

    I am currently a reservist awaiting UPT and the 340th has sent a bunch of us to SERE prior. This must be fairly new. 

    Flight Time

    in Air National Guard / Air Force Reserves

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    8 hours ago, Polar Bear said:

    Do full time pilots in the guard/reserve fly more than AD? I was talking to an Apache pilot in the Army Guard and was blown away at how much he flew a week. 

     This is a very case by case thing. Depends on mission, unit funding, manning, so many factors. It's possible. 

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