eaw913 Posted November 30, 2010 Posted November 30, 2010 Is anyone in the Georgia National Guard on this forum? Or know anything about it? I am interested in getting more info, but I am having trouble finding it on the internet. I would like to look into what my chances would be for eventually getting a flight slot, and what I could do. In a lot of ways, I would prefer to fly for the National Guard, but I don't know what the benefits of that would be over flying active duty Army. If I choose to do NG, I would plan to stay in it to fly, but I don't want to get 4 years down the road and find out I stand no chance. Thanks for the help. Quote
NorCalHeliKid Posted December 3, 2010 Posted December 3, 2010 You can go street to seat in the NG just like active. The advantages are really only if you have a higher paying job and/or dont want to leave your home state. You do your weekend time and deploy every few years and you dont have to go where the big Army wants to send you between deployments. The advantages could also be seen as disadvantages if you have to leave for 2 years of training and dont have a job to come home to when youre done with flight school. If you go active and get Hunter AAF(Savannah) than you dont have to worry about leaving GA or finding a new job in 2 years. PM me if youd like. Quote
gary-mike Posted December 3, 2010 Posted December 3, 2010 You can go street to seat in the NG just like active. Is this something new? I was reading about this the other day and from what I gathered you had to go into another MOS first, then apply for WOFT. Maybe different for Commisioned Officers, I was looking more at Warrant. 1 Quote
NorCalHeliKid Posted December 3, 2010 Posted December 3, 2010 Is this something new? I was reading about this the other day and from what I gathered you had to go into another MOS first, then apply for WOFT. Maybe different for Commisioned Officers, I was looking more at Warrant. You're right, just asked a buddy. He was officially a Mechanic for a month before he went Warrant. So, it seems as though you have to enlist but can immediately apply for WOFT. With NG the way it is it would seem that you could do all of the politics before hand, meet and greet, "pre-interview" and that type of thing. My friend already knew they had a slot for him when he came in. Quote
zinadinpeterson Posted December 30, 2010 Posted December 30, 2010 Georgia National Guard has both federal and state activities aimed at serving the community. Local times of natural disasters or civil strife, Georgia Guard is ready to help. When international conflicts arise, the Georgia Guard works well as the active Army. Before our citizen soldiers in Georgia since before the birth of the state. None of the other works part-time is as precious as many people as citizen-soldiers. Quote
mrjibbs Posted January 4, 2011 Posted January 4, 2011 Not all states offer the "street to seat" program. In those cases, they will make you get MOSQ'd and then come back to the unit and drop a WOC packet. And in those cases, you are likely to get screwed over and and sent on deployment, like me, right now. Awesome. Dont ever believe what anybody tells you, unless its on paper in a contract! Quote
transamman Posted May 26, 2011 Posted May 26, 2011 Not all states offer the "street to seat" program. In those cases, they will make you get MOSQ'd and then come back to the unit and drop a WOC packet. And in those cases, you are likely to get screwed over and and sent on deployment, like me, right now. Awesome. Dont ever believe what anybody tells you, unless its on paper in a contract!Do you by chance know which states do offer "street to seat" opportunities? Quote
USAR153D Posted May 28, 2011 Posted May 28, 2011 Is anyone in the Georgia National Guard on this forum? Or know anything about it?PM me. I have point a of contact there. Quote
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