Posted on Jul 21, 2019
If a pilot in the Navy or the Marine Corps decided to interservice transfer to the Air Force, would they still wear Naval Aviator wings?
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Due to the differences in how pilots are trained across the different services, I was curious to how this issue would be addressed. For example, unless an Army Pilot, was going to go fly helicopters in the Air Force, they’d probably have to go back to a limited training program to learn how to fly on/off ships in the Navy/Marine Corps/Coast Guard. Same with The Air Force depending on platform.
But as far as the wings you earned in flight school, would they change?
But as far as the wings you earned in flight school, would they change?
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I looked up the current Air Force uniform regs and it said if a qualification badge was earned in another US service, it could be worn if the other service allowed. Actual experience, there were a few USMC pilots who received flight training in helicopters from the Army. Once they came back to the Corps, they had to receive additional training to be qualified Naval aviators.
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That's an interesting question...I'd seen a USCG Aux guy, I'd been trying to join, he had multiple wings, though I don't know if it'd been because he'd been prior active...I'd "think" one could actually make a halfway decent case that "maybe", if one were really awarded wings from one branch, one "might" be able to wear them in another, even if one also had wings from that new branch, though I obv don't know for sure, of course...one guy I'd known at USAF OTS, as I've said on here, had been intersvc prior enlisted Navy, he actually wore Navy enlisted sub dolphins, the only time I ever saw that...however, as I'd said, it's an interesting point, certainly...we had a family friend who''d been Army enlisted, went Army WOCS for rotary wing, got his bach in aviation at Embry Riddle, then Army released him, USCG picked him up, he finished his 20 yrs as a USCG O-3, so, he "might" have actually fit that sort of thing, if we ever see him again, I'll ask him, def, ya got my mental gears turning with that one....
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