Age Requirement

Just a little update:

After taking everyone's advise on here, I was able to make it up to the recruiters office. Nice enough they were all right next to each other. Navy Marines, Air Force, and Army..go figure....

After talking with each Recruiter...I heard the good and bad about each service. And at my age, I will have to get a wavier but they said it's not too hard to get. I met the basic qualifications. Eye sight, height and Weight, GT score..etc.

They said I need to make a decision soon, real SOON, after talking with the different services. I am leaning toward the Warrant Officer Program. The good thing about that, is they said that you will be able to fly for your entire career. Unlike the Airforce and Marines. After a certain amount of time and when you make more rank...you have to move on to a Command, which would be good if you like that. I think I would be happy flying for a while.

Next week I take the AFOQT, I have been studing like a MAD MAN! But the practice test looks pretty easy, hand and eye coordination, what happens when I push the stick this way....etc....

The person I talked to said that with already having a background in Aviation, I should be fine with the test. Also there are a NEED of pilots right now, Nationwide....

So I am studing and we will see where this takes me.,,,more to come
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I'm guessing you are talking about the Army WOFT. I know you said that you were Marine prior service before, did they say if you were going to have to go through bootcamp again? Also, does your prior active duty service count against the age limit?
 
That's exactly it...the ARMY WOFT, actually the prior service doesn't hurt me, it helps me, for the Marine Corps, I don't have to meet the age requirements. And as far as boot camp I don't have to do that either. I have to wait for a slot to open up at a unit that I am requesting. So I have to find a unit, make myself known, let them know who I am and what I can bring to the unit. Once I make a good impression, and they like me, I can apply with that unit.

I met the standards just on paper.. I have to do an actual flight phyiscal , so who knows what will happen then.In the Marines, I don't think that I want to deploy again on those 6 month 'floats' I'm married now and have a daughter, I did that in the past, I got my "been there, down that" t-shirt. Like I said before, the more rank you get the less you are flying and the more you are pushing papers.

The WOFT program, I think is a great way to go, I wish I knew about this program when I was younger, oh well live and learn. But as I said we will see what happens in the coming weeks...
 
Yeah, I had heard that active duty service helps you as far as age waivers - that's what I meant. I guess I worded it wrong. I keep on thinking I should have looked into it more while I was still active duty Navy since the whole "blue to green" interservice transfer program was in full swing.

Anyway, Good Luck!
 
After talking with the recruiter, he said now is as good of time as any, right now they are IN NEED of Warrant Officers in general, and 153A Helo Pilot is in need also…They have also changed the eye requirements to 20/60 use to be 20/50. So anyone that is interested now is the BEST TIME…
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