Unfortunately there’s nothing that could guarantee anything. You never know what could get in your way that could cause something to change. I’m not too familiar with the Marine program, but have heard that if you sign your contract and later cannot become a pilot for whatever reason you’re on the hook for a job of their choice.

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It could help you out, but I would personally recommend not doing that. You could absolutely join a guard/reserve fighter unit as a non flyer and get to know all the people around there and get hired eventually. Couple things with that to think about are that you pretty much limit yourself to that one unit, and second that you now have a 4…

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There really is no way to ‘request’ XPW prior to showing up to UPT. However, the way it has been going lately is that every XPW class will have 3-4 Guard/Res and 2-3 Active spots. Most of the Guard/Res are being non-vol’d since those studs already knew they were headed that way. Since you are Reserve once you get down to inpro with the 340th…

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I don’t have great answers for you about the VA rating or the eyesight – however having recently gone through UPT I had met at least 2 prior Marines and a few prior Navy guys who had been picked up by Guard/Reserve unit. It didn’t sound like the process of getting hired was any more or less challenging than a normal off the street hire but…

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Congrats on the hire! Not sure what sort of timeline your unit gave you but most people that I know is around 2 years. My understanding is that the Air Force can’t send people to OTS fast enough. But as soon as you can get OTS out of the way they should PCS you to UPT within a few months. Things could be different in your experience but that…

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