At least last time I was there, after either of us flew from Miramar, there is a chipotle. Not that it's saying much, but it has never been Lemoore.
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Are Naval aviators really away from home more than Air Force pilots?
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At least last time I was there, after either of us flew from Miramar, there is a chipotle. Not that it's saying much, but it has never been Lemoore.
Comment was from perspective where NEXCOM has facilities to man but then doesn’t keep up their end of the bargain to the support sailors. The civilians there don’t think about the sailors. For example, they forgot they owed our MWR $100k due to a single point of failure.
A friend's 18 year old kid is heading to Lemoore as a maintainer and asked me what I would give as a "graduation/going away" gift. I said "a car, because that's the only way to escape Lemoore on the weekends". I honestly have no idea how the junior enlisted guys in the barracks do it when the only thing to do without a car is work out and go to McDonalds.
Lemoore, and being told I had to take orders keeping me there, was one of (not the only, but certainly up there) the reasons why I punched. Air Guard has been the way to go on the other side.
Lemoore, and being told I had to take orders keeping me there, was one of (not the only, but certainly up there) the reasons why I punched. Air Guard has been the way to go on the other side.
Camp Humphreys in the ROK is saying: "hold my beer."
I neglected to read the 5 pages of responses, I am just replying off of your title for the post. I'm gone a lot more than I thought I'd be. RFF, Dets, Deployments, training, ground job classes, etc. Idk what they do in the Airforce but I'm starting to think its anything but work over there.
So, there are so few USAF and other service pilots looking to go Guard that they need undergrads? I'm confused.
Pretty standard to be honest. Almost all guard units home grow some of their pilots. Some of them are enlisted personnel who select while they’re in the unit, as they’re a known quantity.
Still very competitive, however, however if you are a physically fit college grad with a private pilot rating, you will get a lot of recruiting love! A path to a commission and pilot training is highly probable.
The AF at least is still significantly short of pilots across active, guard, and reserves.
We hire some off the street folks, or some of our enlisted folks. Almost every unit does. Some don't- I know the Va F-22 unit only takes qualified F-22 guys off of AD.
There is value of having some "guard baby" officers that can have 20+ years of service within the ANG.
We even took a "Palace Front" kid from ROTC. That's a great deal if you can swing it.
Learned something new. Back in the good ole '70s, the Guard and Reserves were filled with Viet Nam vets. The only officer/pilot recruiting I remember was for the active services, with the Marine OSO hitting my school's flight tech department heavily. And after a couple parties at the old Philadelphia Navy Yard, and T-28 flights from NAS Willow Grove, it was a done deal.