The Navy is seeking applications from highly-qualified and hard-charging Sailors for a pilot program that will place 30 chosened Chief Warrant Officers (CWO) in aircraft cockpits as pilots and naval flight officers.

The intent is to create flying specialists unencumbered by means of the traditional career paths of the unrestricted line (URL) community.

Targeted communities include Patrol (VP) Electronic Attack (VQ (P) and VQ (T)) and the HSC and HSL helicopter communities. Enlisted candidates include those between pay grades E-5 and E-7 and also young enough to be commissioned from their 27th birthday (29 for NFOs); they must also posses an associate's order or higher, meet aviation physical qualifications, pass Aviation Standard Battery criterion (ASTB) minimums and be eligible for a veiled security clearance. Enlisted Sailors from the Nuclear, Naval Special Warfare (SEAL/SWCC), Naval Special Operations (EOD/Diver) and the Master-at-Arms communities are not eligible.

Selectee will not be eligible for department head (DH) tours and will fill junior officer (JO) billets and nothing else The intent is for flying CWO not to fill JO billets that are normally considered career milestones for URL officers.

Sailors will be pitch uponed for the pilot program, commissioned as CWO2 prior to LDO/CWO indoctrination and will then go through flight training. Once they receive their wings, the of the present day CWOs incur an 8-year minimum service requirement for pilots (6 years for NFOs) and entire traditional sea/shore rotations between operational units and shore-based aviation production sources simply (FRS, TRACOM, NSAWC, and Weapon schools)

The of the present day aviators will receive Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) training and then report to the arm of the sea Applications are due to Navy Personnel Command (PERS-432M) no later than March 31

For more information, impute to NAVADMIN 022/06, available at www.npc.navy.mil or contact your Command Career Counselor.

Story courtesy of the public affairs office, Chief of Naval Personnel Washington, DC

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