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You just took a bunch of money to leave active duty and you landed a good job. Now you want to go back on AD, at a UPT base, as a Captain? Huh? The return to AD guys we picked up back in '10 & '11 were all 0-5s who were furloughed and working for the Guard. They came back on AD to try and earn a AD retirement (most of them did), and because they were 0-5s that were legally non-promotable. No one wanted to fuck with them. I doubt that would be the case with you. Do you really want to leave a gig at a major so you can make 2nd year pay, work 55 hours a week, live in a podunk town, and have your wings taken away by a power-tripping Wing King over jokes taken out of context in private text messages? To each his own I guess...

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Scroll back 5 years and say that.

A companion trainer would work wonders in the heavy world, allowing them to save billions while increasing their airmanship and hand-flying skills. Heavies cost between $15-50k per hour to fly not including fuel while a smaller trainer runs on peanuts. That said, there are many heavy pilots who would kill themselves in the T-38. I say that coming from the community; some are great and some are absolutely heinous. So it would have to be some other airplane (without an autopilot available, because some would lean on it and negate the whole purpose of a CTP).

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quick update on Rucker drops, since no one there has been posting them recently - this is from a convo I had last week with a Rucker IP. Drops favor 60s over Hueys (last class had something like 5 60s and 3 Hueys) these days. Expect 5 ish FAIP drops in a year (which typically go to those who ask for them), and CV-22s will be starting to drop again at Rucker (unknown amount, but my guess would be near the same number of FAIP drops, give or take, from historical averages when they were dropping before).

Standard answer: Don't join reserves or guard. Be a straight A college student in a degree you're interested in, don't break any laws, chase skirts, have fun, get slot, profit.

No need to get snippy. I'm merely pointing out that out of the 13 AD assignments, 4 were FAIPs and 2 RPAs. Certainly not as RPA heavy as years past, but still significant.

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