![]() First and foremost being you will need to get a class 3 flight 2992 or “upslip”. In addition there are a couple prerequisites you will need to meet for flying duty as an enlisted soldier. That said you will generally spend about a year in a maintenance company before going to a flight company. I would agree with previous comments that if you want to fly and get the experience of aviation as a whole go 15T or 15U. So I have been a 15T for about 4 years now and am a Standardization Instructor for the enlisted fliers. I was a maintenance inspector before getting sucked into recruiting.ĭO NOT join the Reserve as a way to "test the water." That's a 6 year contract on it's own and while it's possible to be released from the reserve in order to go active, it's not easy and you have to rely on your chain of command to be nice about it. Other crew chiefs have wildly different experiences than I did though. It was about as boring as it could possibly get. Had a few exciting moments in air assaults and what-not, but that was the deployment where I decided I didn't want to fly any more. lots of flying around dropping off and picking up people for hours and days on end. I deployed to Afghanistan as a crew chief. That deployment was what made me realize I wanted to make a career out of it. It was a constant stream of fixing broke shit and doing scheduled inspections. I deployed to Iraq as a maintenance supervisor, in charge of 14 mechanics. If any of you have experience in 6 year contracts, or have heard stories from others with 6 year contracts, especially from the aviation jobs, I would love to hear them. The big thing for me is the massive 6 year contract required- while I'm sure I would like everything starting out, down the line, that is a lot of time serving and I don't want to get burnt out if I don't become a Warrant Officer as soon as I expect. My recruiter said it is usually pretty easy going Reserve to AD but not from AD to Reserve. I could go Reserve for the same MOS, then use my time not serving to make connections and pursue Warrant Officer as well which would probably be easier, however I do really want to go AD eventually. ![]() I spoke to the recruiter about all of the 15 series MOS that would put me around aircraft and pilots, and every single one of them had a 6 year minimum enlistment contract which is a pretty long time. Not gonna lie, the idea of enlisting sounds very appealing to me as I want the life experience to push me forward. My practical options for this so far are trying to go street to seat despite low credentials so far, (GED, 6 college credit hours by May, at 21 years old, average fitness), or enlisting then trying afterwards. ![]() I want to eventually become a Warrant Officer Pilot. Hi, so I am heavily considering going into the Army enlisted.
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