Navy CWO Aviator Program

awww, you beat me to it. I was just about to post this same thing. Any prior Navy guys thinking about getting back in now?
 
My sentiments exactly, Lloyd. Why didn't they have a program like this when I was still in? :) I seem to remember reading about the "Flying Chiefs," an all enlisted squadron, in the early (pre WWI) days of Naval Aviation.

I've been out of the loop for a couple years now, but I thought that the Navy didn't need pilots and was actually releasing some Academy grads from their commitments (scuttlebutt?). Any thoughts as to the reasoning behind this program? If I'm reading that message correctly, the Navy is looking for guys whose only job is to fly and not worry about having to fly a desk for a few years. Sounds like fun to me.:D
 
GatorFC said:
My sentiments exactly, Lloyd. Why didn't they have a program like this when I was still in? :)
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I might have had a crazy moment and put on my wig and dancing shoes to come over to the dark side!!:nana2:

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aloft said:
The B scale finally comes to the Navy....
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I was too old anyway

Age 27 requirement. BLAH!!! I wouldn't have passed the physical anyways but an interesting idea. I can't imagine that many E-5s will be selected and most E7s I knew had their degree already. Wonder what kinda of position they will hold in the squadron. Would have been nice to not go from Chief to Ensign.
 
Not a B scale

Perhaps I am wrong, I haven't looked at the pay scales in a few years but if I as a E& would have been selected for CWO, I would have made significantly more money a year than a new Ensign assigned to my same FRS simpluy based on time in service.
 
I remember looking at the Wo program - I'd have made more than a brand new Second Lewey, but not more than one with my TIS!!!:)
 
True

But your time in service was makingup for your lack of formal edumacation.

Count enlistment as entering a special bridge program... LOL
 
As someone stated, why does the Navy need the pilots? I was also under the impression that the Navy didn't have the need to retain any more pilots than they currently do. Are they ramping up for something?
 
Shooter13 said:
But your time in service was makingup for your lack of formal edumacation.
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Yeah, but they'd never be able to break me out of those nasty Sergeant habits! I drink beer out of the bottle, tell dirty jokes in front of women and like the hang out with the enlisted men!

John Herreshoff said:
As someone stated, why does the Navy need the pilots? I was also under the impression that the Navy didn't have the need to retain any more pilots than they currently do. Are they ramping up for something?
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You never know with those guys. The folks in manpower (at least that's what we called them in The Corps) were always trying to plan for 5 years from now.
 
Damn, I missed my chance! Took them long enough, though I am a little puzzled as to what their rational is for this move. I was gonna start doing the jig, till I realized I was over 27 and that they gave me the boot for medical. Oh well I'll just keep it in my daydreams!
 
B. ENLISTED PERSONNEL FROM SEAL, SWCC, EOD, DIVER, NUCLEAR, AND
MA COMMUNITIES ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THIS PROGRAM.
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If you look at the fine print... NUKES NEED NOT APPLY... they don't want our kind...

I actually wrote to ask about waivers, haven't heard anything back yet. Go figure. I told them, the nuclear field is losing a sailor in me anyway, but the navy could KEEP THIS sailor if a nuke waiver could be issued to apply. (I guess I'd need an age waiver too, but the nuke thing rubs me in all the wrong places)

DOWN WITH THE NUKES!!!!
 
Grabo172 said:
I told them, the nuclear field is losing a sailor in me anyway, but the navy could KEEP THIS sailor if a nuke waiver could be issued to apply.
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Dude, sometimes they don't really think that far ahead. In my last year or so in The Corps, there was an open Career Planner billet with The Second Battalion, Seventh Marines Regiment, in 29 Palms, CA. Completely disgusted with the Air Wing (it was almost The Navy . . . :p), I was eager to gete back into an Infantry Battalion. I was ready to sell my soul to the Devil to have morning PT and real daily formations again!!:rawk: Well, I met all of the requirements, and was very willing. The Billet had been open for 7 months - who wants to go to an Infantry Battalion in the middle of nowhere?? I talked to my Monitor, and he was good to go with it. However, my unit wouldn't release me. My Squadron Career Planner told me that I could request a PCS after 5 years on station (I had 3-1/2) because they couldn't afford to lose me (I've still never really been replaced . . . HAHA). I told him that regardless of whether or not they gave me orders, I was going to be gone by year's end (EAS). He told me that career Marines with my TIS don't just leave, and that I'd stick around.

The next time I saw him, I was checking out. Oh, he was ready to deal then!!
 
It is amazing how flexible the military can be when you are on your way out. The problem is they wait until it is too late.

ex Navy Chief
 
You'd think they'd wonder why us Navy chiefs (Subpilot, Shooter, and Me) are getting out. Heck, I'll be at my 15 year point. If they want to keep me, this CWO program would be a way, about the only way...
 
I jus talked to some friends that are still active and they jumped on this as soon as the message came out. They said a crap load are tryin to jump on this program. Bastards! Meanwhile i'll work my little job with Mesa and fly little prop planes. This program might flood the market with military pilots. Will these people make a career out of it or do a little bit more time and go fly for the airlines?
 
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