propanelord
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Good day, ladies and gentlemen! Thank you for taking the time to read my post today!
If a Marine Corps company grade, or whatever rank they find themselves at around end of initial contract, with no negative paperwork, and a good average track-record, as a fixed or rotary wing pilot chooses not to career designate, and is finishing their initial contractual obligation, what is the chance they can waltz right into an AGR Air Force Reserve or Air National Guard pilot slot? For those of you who don't get out into the joint world very much, you could explain what Army/Air-Force call AGR as being very similar to what we in the MC/Navy call "I&I". Obviously, I assume that said former Marine (new-Airman) would be forced to attend training, and/or potentially be trained on a whole new airframe... I'm not worried about those minor obstacles. Would the lat move even be allowed to happen at all? Do inter-service transfers typically reduce rank? For all I know, they are killing for former active duty Navy/MC pilots, or they could be so flush with prior active duty Regular-Air-Force and DSG/TR (selected reserve air force) pilots, that they would never in a million years entertain this... Also, even if you can get AGR slot in the initial transfer, can you stay there in AGR status for seven or ten years? Or are AGR contracts only 3 years, and they don't always allow you to renew them? If they force you from AGR to DSG/TR, then you can't always finish an active duty retirement necessarily...
Obviously, no one can predict the future, and things ten years ago were very different, and they will be very different eleven years from now. But can we please take a stab at that question?
I am an enlisted Marine.
Thank you so much!
If a Marine Corps company grade, or whatever rank they find themselves at around end of initial contract, with no negative paperwork, and a good average track-record, as a fixed or rotary wing pilot chooses not to career designate, and is finishing their initial contractual obligation, what is the chance they can waltz right into an AGR Air Force Reserve or Air National Guard pilot slot? For those of you who don't get out into the joint world very much, you could explain what Army/Air-Force call AGR as being very similar to what we in the MC/Navy call "I&I". Obviously, I assume that said former Marine (new-Airman) would be forced to attend training, and/or potentially be trained on a whole new airframe... I'm not worried about those minor obstacles. Would the lat move even be allowed to happen at all? Do inter-service transfers typically reduce rank? For all I know, they are killing for former active duty Navy/MC pilots, or they could be so flush with prior active duty Regular-Air-Force and DSG/TR (selected reserve air force) pilots, that they would never in a million years entertain this... Also, even if you can get AGR slot in the initial transfer, can you stay there in AGR status for seven or ten years? Or are AGR contracts only 3 years, and they don't always allow you to renew them? If they force you from AGR to DSG/TR, then you can't always finish an active duty retirement necessarily...
Obviously, no one can predict the future, and things ten years ago were very different, and they will be very different eleven years from now. But can we please take a stab at that question?
I am an enlisted Marine.
Thank you so much!
