Yeah, from my (totally unqualified bottom-feeder) point of view, it seems silly to spend vast amounts of money training somebody to do something fairly specific, and then send them to do something completely different for a different branch of service. If the IA tour pilots were at least doing something aviation-related (like this lawyer guy helping try insurgents- which makes sense in my opinion) then I might understand the importance of IA tours for Naval Aviators.
Not saying I'd try to bail if they threatened to assign me an IA, but I like to think critically about what I might be ordered to do someday- and this just seems like a waste of expensively trained personnel in a military increasingly concerned about $$$.
As an aside, how much does it cost to train the average TACAIR pilot?
Not saying I'd try to bail if they threatened to assign me an IA, but I like to think critically about what I might be ordered to do someday- and this just seems like a waste of expensively trained personnel in a military increasingly concerned about $$$.
As an aside, how much does it cost to train the average TACAIR pilot?