another guard question...!!

[guidoverduci]

If you don't have any civilian licenses with the exception of private, and you get selected for UPT, what is it that you do after training. What I mean is- how do you build hours if you're just flying weekends for your unit? Once you are flying for you're unit- what are some of the civilian jobs that you get, assuming that you don't have enough hours for a flying job? Any thoughts would be appreciated- thanks

 

[CCDiscoB]

Big Misconception

just flying weekends

That is a big misconception about the National Guard. Do you really think you'll be proficient enough flying once a month? Especially as a new pilot whom has just returned from UPT. I’m not sure how it is at heavy units but at fighter units, when you return you will be a full time pilot for at least a year and a half. You’ll be paid from a pot of money called seasoning days. Then you have to stay current which means flying during the week. You’ll be on a drill status then or on an FTP or even an active duty day. Bottom line is you’ll be busy enough if you want.

If you don't have any civilian licenses with the exception of private, and you get selected for UPT, what is it that you do after training.

You can worry about that after UPT.

 

[Tweetdrvr]

Pay in the Airlift World

About 40% of the tanker/airlift capability is in the ANG/Reserve and the Air Force totally integrates these assets into the day to day flying operation. A guard/reserve tanker may get a tasking to refuel active duty fighters, bombers or transports at one of the many school houses around the country. Or they may go support a guard fighter unit to keep their dudes current on aerial refueling ops. Everybody has to maintain the same currencies as an active duty pilot in each particular airframe. Sometimes airline guys go non-current, then the full time Instructor Pilots get them recurrent, but that doesn't relieve them of the number of approaches, landings, airdrops that must be flown in a quarter/half/or year. I don't know about fighter currencies only 130s and T-37s.

Big AMC(Tankers, 141s and C-17s) do a lot of work for dudes called the TACC at Scott AFB, IL. They get a tasker and send a crew out to Europe or the Pacific for at least a week at a time. Tanker units deploy on rotations with other active, guard and reserve units to support the missions in Bosnia and the desert.

Little AMC (130s) work mostly for the ANG Bureau or the Reserve Bureau and spend lots of time hauling Army Guard units or other AF units to their so called "summer camps." Some of these units go to Europe for their two weeks of training. Sometimes you'll fly to Ramstein with a stopover in the Azores with a load of dudes, take a day off in Germany, return empty, and ten days later do the same trip in reverse when it is time to pick them up. Then there are the ongoing missions in Bosnia, Coronet Oak in Puerto Rico, and the never ending desert rotations.

Bums in the ANG or troughers in the Reserve in the 130 world can usually get 300 to 500 hours per year depending on willingness to take bad deals in order to get good deals and be the scheduler's "never say no to" any trip person.

But like CCDiscoB says, worry about getting to, then through UPT first. The rest will take care of itself.

 

[Skaz]

hey guys,
how do you get to join the ANG?
what prior experience etc is needed...

 

[Tweetdrvr]

1-800-go-guard

That used to be the phone number and still might be. Not to be short, but go to these threads and links and wade through them, there is tons of good stuff on there about the ANG and Reserves.

http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16939

http://forums.flightinfo.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=17008

Here are the ANG and AFRES websites list of units index:

http://www.ang.af.mil/units/angsites.asp

http://www.afrc.af.mil/Units.htm