Hey Everyone, I'm hoping someone on the recruiting side of life can give me some insight. Here's what I got from NPC-
"Per the two instructions provided, Interservice transfers go from reserve to reserve or active to active to another branch of service, they do not allow for a transfer from reserve to active or active to reserve to another branch of service. If you are interested in an interservice transfer into the Navy Reserve, contact PS1 Hanlon cc'd in this email. If you are interested in a direct appointment for active duty Navy you would coordinate this with your local recruiter as a new appointment, not an interservice transfer."
This came from PERS-831. I went to a local recruiter and told him this and he basically said "OK, you're just standard applicant as an Other Service Veteran. I spoke with some people and was told by an Aviation O-5 that since I was already an officer that I wouldn't
do OCS. It was my understanding that I would submit an application and, if accepted, would receive flight school orders instead of OCS orders. Today I got a call from my recruiter saying that "officers from other branches are ineligible for the AOCS program" (paraphrased). This was basically his cue to bow out, because he kept telling me that it doesn't look good and that it doesn't appear to be possible to do what I'm wanting to do, which is go from an Army National Guard officer to a AD Naval Aviator. I also got this correspondence from another reputable source:
"So far this is what I've found out
1) You would need to do a reserve IST into a USNR community
2) You would need to lateral transfer from within that USNR community to general aviation reservist
3) You would need to augment from general aviation reservist to active component
The first two steps are all on the reserve side and here are the hurdles I see...
1) A USNR community would have to use an IST quota on you with the knowledge that you are only using their community as a gateway
2) The Naval Aviation Reserve community would need to pull you in despite you not having any aviation experience - are general aviation reservists are typically folks who can no longer fly for a variety of reasons."
I was told that if I can overcome those two obstacles that I might be able to get pulled in as an INDEF RECALL. My questions to the experts is: I found on MILPERMAN 1300-082 it says:
"Requests from Navy Activities for a specific officer will be sent to the following
Navy Personnel Command
ATTN: PERS-803
5720 Integrity Drive
Millington, TN 38055-8010
Requests must be fully justified, showing that the transfer is in the best interest of the Navy, and include a statement, signed by the officer concerned, consenting
to the transfer."
Is it possible to have someone in the AV community request to have me specifically pulled in? I know this has to be possible, can someone please try to give me a solid answer on what I need to do in order to get into Naval Aviation? Sorry for the novel, just trying to be 100% transparent.