What happens if you don't pass flight school?

[FormerRecruitingGuru]

Got it. That makes sense that another community wouldn't want to take someone that had no future service and growth. Thanks!

This is why aviation lateral transfers (example: SWO to SNA/SNFO) are rare and take folks very very junior. Otherwise they will not have enough time to meet required milestones for O-4 selection.

 

[Random13]

This is why aviation lateral transfers (example: SWO to SNA/SNFO) are rare and take folks very very junior. Otherwise they will not have enough time to meet required milestones for O-4 selection.

I have noticed this just by reading through the forum that transfers into the aviation community is not a normal occurence. My question is why is the Navy like this in order to meet the milestones for O-4 selection? I know that branches like the USAF, it seems like you can go to pilot training or CSO training even after being in another career field within the DOD. so I would assume it is based on some historical reason that the USN's process works like this? This is a question I have been genuinely curious about for a while.

 

[Ozarky]

Piggy-backing off of this statement

If flight school doesn’t work out, you may have a bright future as a CMC!

 

[FormerRecruitingGuru]

I have noticed this just by reading through the forum that transfers into the aviation community is not a normal occurence. My question is why is the Navy like this in order to meet the milestones for O-4 selection? I know that branches like the USAF, it seems like you can go to pilot training or CSO training even after being in another career field within the DOD. so I would assume it is based on some historical reason that the USN's process works like this? This is a question I have been genuinely curious about for a while.

Aviation and similar URL communities have discrete requirements that take a while to complete.

 

[AIRMMCPORET]

If flight school doesn’t work out, you may have a bright future as a CMC!

Yeah, I don’t think so.😉

 

[Random13]

Aviation and similar URL communities have discrete requirements that take a while to complete.

Ok that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!

 

[FinkUFreaky]

Not much to add to whats above/already written on this forum.
I've had multiple friends DOR/attrite/med/legal out of various stages in the pipeline. Two were separated. One for extenuating health reasons. The other was due to extreme personal life circumstances. The rest stayed....whether they wanted to or not.

In short, you DOR or they attrite you. You do some research then submit a "POCR" (redesignation) package a couple of months later. Then a couple months after that, your new community contacts you. Detailers start writing orders and you'll head out to whatever is next.

I had a slightly differing observation than Fink, unless it was a legal issue, how someone was removed from the pipeline seemed irrelevant when it came to opportunity. Plenty of performance attrites/DORs moved into competitive designators. Just because flight school wasn't a fit doesn't mean you're a bad officer.

I suppose I could have been more clear; I didn’t mean to say that performance attrites were given less preference; just DOR/failing out for lack of preparation (eg RRUs). The reason for the DOR matters too. Miserable every night for some physiological thing? Wouldn’t be a negative. Flight school requiring a lot of time isn’t working out for the missus? Probably not gonna want that dude in any community.

Perhaps I’m mistaken but that’s been my observation.