It sounds like you're pretty early in your enlisted career.
Don't ever stop applying, your package just gets better every year.
You will get picked up.
It took me 8 years and 5 applications, and I don't regret any of it. The first page in my own binder of Navy stuff is my shoot-down letter from the Naval Academy in 1988.
It motivates me to this day.
Hopefully, you have surmised that a big part of Naval Aviation is getting kicked squarely in the nuts from time to time. That's our version of sensitivity training. Picking yourself off the mat is what really matters.
Don't ever stop applying, your package just gets better every year.
You will get picked up.
It took me 8 years and 5 applications, and I don't regret any of it. The first page in my own binder of Navy stuff is my shoot-down letter from the Naval Academy in 1988.
It motivates me to this day.
Hopefully, you have surmised that a big part of Naval Aviation is getting kicked squarely in the nuts from time to time. That's our version of sensitivity training. Picking yourself off the mat is what really matters.