"Only big navy knows...... and even then, they don't know". Not to anyone specifically, but I'd love to see this phrase disappear.
It creates more misinformation. Big navy knows what it wants, and defines the criteria by which it will obtain it (Program Authorization, etc.). Big navy has the authority and responsibility to change those requirements as they see fit. Let's not compare the sometimes confusing selection process and never ending examples of misinformed people on a forum that do little more than fuel additional speculation, to big navy.
The big navy recruitment criteria and process (which is fairly straightforward) should not be juxtaposed to OR information (or misinformation due to OR speculation) which is then exaggerated and compounded on an open forum of other relatively misinformed people who love to get the latest rumor mill gouge. ?♂️
No, not for aviation.