Needs of the Navy, shipmate. If the Navy needs to move a body from one pipeline to the other (say, a bunch of cones have attrited out of one pipeline and CNATRA over-accessed another), it could happen.
The odds that your desires and the Navy's needs will exactly line up at the right time...yeah, what ea6b said. Helos ain't so bad.
I saw it happen immediately after primary selection....ie one guy wanted helos and got P-3, the other wanted P-3 and wanted helos, both were buds and got it worked out. But I never saw anyone go from Helo/P-3/E-6 to jets in the tracom if that is what you are looking for. And I also never saw such a thing once said intermediate/advanced training had begun.
Completely different scenario.
The last Station SAR job to have FW is Pax River. That being said, helo bubba friend of mine turned his ME time there into an ATP and then an offer in the bigs - and who's gonna say no to Hank?
exactly...you get to fly a lot more type A/C at a station...
Not the case anymore, I don't think. All the station SAR teams are 60s if I'm not mistaken (I think there were Hueys at China Lake until a few years ago maybe?) and I doubt there's much of any opportunity to get fixed wing time at any of them.
Not the case anymore, I don't think. All the station SAR teams are 60s if I'm not mistaken (I think there were Hueys at China Lake until a few years ago maybe?) and I doubt there's much of any opportunity to get fixed wing time at any of them.