You're missing something. No way you leave "early in your 1st sea tour." Unless you meant early in your first shore tour.
Sorry...
Yes I did mean early in your first shore tour.
You're missing something. No way you leave "early in your 1st sea tour." Unless you meant early in your first shore tour.
Out of curiosity:
It looks like there might be two schools of thought as to the timing for least detrimental impact:
1.) Late in JO tour. Ensures highest likely hood of #1 EP, and gets you into and then out of the clown planes the fastest.
2.) Early in your 1st sea tour. Avoids possible backlash from a community proud CO.
It would seem to me that early in your shore tour might be best. An opportunity for one more observed FITREP before going NOB, and potentially avoiding fallout from people in your community who would take offense to you leaving. Also getting a little bit of shore tour time so that when you are compared to others later on you look a bit more like them?
Just my thought... Am I missing something? Or does that say 1 year in the VTs or on a staff not really mean much?
I do know a few more folks who at least made O-4 and managed to do a fair amount of flying on the way to their 20 after a helo-jets transition.
No matter how intent you are on transitioning, I would strongly suggest that you keep it to yourself on your first sea tour and do not put your chance at a competitive EP in jeopardy. Chances to transition prior to within a year of your wings+whatever-it-is-these-days seem to be pretty rare these days, so you might want to keep your options as open as possible.
Chunks, who is your avatar. I've seen that somewhere before.
Does all of this same information apply to NFO > Pilot transitions? Or is there something in their career path that allows them to avoid the drawbacks of a platform transition?
I can certainly understand no backlash from superiors, but what about career timing obstacles?
I can certainly understand no backlash from superiors, but what about career timing obstacles?