Posted on Nov 25, 2019
Is it possible to go from active duty to reserves to go to school full time?
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I've been in for 2.5 years, I have no prior college education, and do not like my job or enlisted life. I would like to go to an aviation college to get my rotary pilots license/ bachelor degree and commission. If anybody has any incite on this I would love to hear it!
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If your goal is to fly you should be looking at WOCS. There is no wait time to submit an application and you'll leave the Army with plenty of logged flight hours, which can be hard to accrue on the civilian side. If you became a commissioned officer who branched aviation, you would be looking at 5-6 years from now till you started flying. Either route you take you'll owe some time to the Army after you commission. As for just separating, no there is no such thing as separation for education. You can only transfer into the Reserves after your ETS.
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SPC Adam,
You have a few options. You could wait until your current contract expires and attend college to get your pilot license. Also, you could get into the Green to Gold program. There’s a 2, 3, and 4 year option depending on how much college you have. Since you don’t have any college you’ll have to do the 4 year option should you choose this program. Look into it and see if you could do that. I’m almost sure that if you do this program, the Army won’t pay for a pilot license, but do the research. I don’t want to give you erroneous information. Last option you have and I highly recommend doing this one, use your TA of pay out of pocket for some flight time either fixed wing or rotatory and put in a Flight Warrant packet. You could put one in right now without any flight time and might get selected. If your ultimate goal is to be a helicopter pilot in the Army I would suggest my last option. If your ultimate goal is to become a pilot in the civilian sector, wait until your contract expires and got to college. What’s your ultimate goal?
You have a few options. You could wait until your current contract expires and attend college to get your pilot license. Also, you could get into the Green to Gold program. There’s a 2, 3, and 4 year option depending on how much college you have. Since you don’t have any college you’ll have to do the 4 year option should you choose this program. Look into it and see if you could do that. I’m almost sure that if you do this program, the Army won’t pay for a pilot license, but do the research. I don’t want to give you erroneous information. Last option you have and I highly recommend doing this one, use your TA of pay out of pocket for some flight time either fixed wing or rotatory and put in a Flight Warrant packet. You could put one in right now without any flight time and might get selected. If your ultimate goal is to be a helicopter pilot in the Army I would suggest my last option. If your ultimate goal is to become a pilot in the civilian sector, wait until your contract expires and got to college. What’s your ultimate goal?
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Hey sir, thanks for the info. My ultimate goal is to fly rotary in the civilian world. The struggle for me right now is that I simply do not like enlisted life and am having a hard time seeing myself doing this for the remainder of my 6 year contract.
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SPC (Join to see) - I'm just curious, what is it about the "enlisted life" you do not like?
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SPC Stewart Smith
SPC (Join to see) - Can you elaborate on what you do not like? I have been a civilian for 10 years now and can give you a good rundown of what you will face in the civilian world.
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SPC Adam,
It’s very unfortunate to hear you don’t like your unit and that you don’t see yourself staying in the Army for the remainder of your 6 year commitment. Some suggestions from experience. Whatever it is you may be going thru is temporary. There could be bad leaders, it could be a bad unit, or no offense the problem may be you. Whatever the case, it’s temporary. If I was you I’d try to PCS to another unit as soon as you’re able to. Focus on you and get some flight time even if you have to pay out of pocket. Then, submit a flight warrant packet and when you get selected, do your 6 or 8 year commitment and get out and fly for the airlines.
Understand that we all do things we may not like so that later on we do things we love doing. Do what I just mentioned above, it make take you 2-3 years but I’ll be worth it.
There are a lot of Soldiers out there that say that their unit sucks. While it may be true the question is what are you doing to make it better? What are you doing to solve those issues? If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem. Best of lucks!
It’s very unfortunate to hear you don’t like your unit and that you don’t see yourself staying in the Army for the remainder of your 6 year commitment. Some suggestions from experience. Whatever it is you may be going thru is temporary. There could be bad leaders, it could be a bad unit, or no offense the problem may be you. Whatever the case, it’s temporary. If I was you I’d try to PCS to another unit as soon as you’re able to. Focus on you and get some flight time even if you have to pay out of pocket. Then, submit a flight warrant packet and when you get selected, do your 6 or 8 year commitment and get out and fly for the airlines.
Understand that we all do things we may not like so that later on we do things we love doing. Do what I just mentioned above, it make take you 2-3 years but I’ll be worth it.
There are a lot of Soldiers out there that say that their unit sucks. While it may be true the question is what are you doing to make it better? What are you doing to solve those issues? If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem. Best of lucks!
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OK 1. Maybe green to gold would work- look into it. 2. You will have to normally serve out you enlistment, or close to it. 3. No college yet- you don't make it , then you're gone. 4. Very few colleges have aviation classes along, and there are no degrees in just flying, so you would have to major in some aviation engineer science.
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