Marine Aviation --> Navy medical?

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If a Marine pilot gets accepted to medical school, and wants to go and
come back into the NAVY as a doctor, how does he go about doing that?
Can you just transfer from the Marines to the Navy?

Unlikely. A guess (and it is a guess, but a SWAG not a WAG) is that you
would resign one commission as a Maraine O-XX and immediately sign a new
commission as a Navy O-01. Then you would do whatever you do as an Enswine
MedStu.

And will they let
you leave for Med School, or do you have to serve your 8 year aviation
commitment as a pilot?

That would be up to the Marines. If you applied and got accepted then maybe
it could happen if your community were not too lean on aviators.

Thanks in advance! (I'm trying to figure my options out.)

Most advice you get here will be dated. But you sound like you are talking
significantly into the future. If that is true then any answer you get from
anybody will, of necessity, carry a bunch of "weasel words." Long term in
government service is one year (the length of an appropriation). Everything
else is short term.

At the end of the day, "Needs of the Service" will control all decisions.

Good luck in your figuring!g

Bill Kambic

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