Posted on Jun 23, 2016
How does the process work in regards to which aircraft you are assigned to for 15W?
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15W: Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operator Aviation
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If you are airborne in contract then you will be shadow. If you are national guard you will be shadow. Most others get gray eagle. If you are 160th you will be gray eagle. Hunter platform is being phased out and anyone who is hunter is going to be trained on the gray eagle. More people are being trained on the gray eagle now because more and more gray eagle units are starting to stand up. So if you're not airborne or national guard you'll most likely be trained on the gray eagle platform
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The school house decides randomly after you finish common core. Most get shadow, not very many get grey eagle. currently been shadow for 2 years now
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When you first become a 15W, you learn the RQ-7B Shadow platform. Once passing the course, you may be eligible to enter the Gray Eagle course. You can become qualified on the Shadow, leave the school house to a Shadow platoon and then go back to become Gray Eagle qualified.
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SPC (Join to see) - Active. If I get the waiver approved. I'll just have to do my best.
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WO1 (Join to see) - most people have a difficult time maintaining their up slip (signifying they are fit for flight duty). Job can also be somewhat monotonous :P
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SPC (Join to see) - I'm not even in the aviation field and I've passed several flight physicals. Monotonous is all about perspective. I know people from other branches of the military who have worked with sensor operators particularly in SF you can see some crazy stuff. It's a better career move than my current field.
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Shadow training came first up until a couple years ago. Now it's pretty much a dice roll as to which platform you train on.
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