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Pilot training slots in the Air Guard are not easy to earn as the program is competitive. Generally speaking, the Air Guard only opens a couple of slots every year for prospective pilots from each unit. ANG has the following minimum requirements for Undergraduate Pilot Training, or UPT: Between the ages of 17-30. Only 1 or 2 pilot slots are opened up for each Air National Guard (ANG) unit per year. Air National Guard units can be found in all 50 states, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. The National Guard aviators have been involved in many important roles in American wars and missions since after World War II.

• The one difference is once an ANG unit hires someone, the unit/state/NGB work accessions and assigning a UPT slot, whereas in the reserves once the unit hires you, a reserve officer accessions recruiter does the accessions piece and also works with your unit getting paperwork in for the centralized AFRC UPT selection board (every 2 months.
• I'm with the redacted Wing, redacted Air National Guard, and just before I was selected for the MSgt position, I had boarded and was selected for a pilot slot with the redacted Squadron in my unit, which flies the redacted.

The Air National Guard is feeling the pressure of maintaining a full-time pilot force amid a national pilot shortage, according to the chief of the National Guard Bureau.

The Guard is about a couple hundred pilots short when it comes to its full-time positions, Gen. Joseph Lengyel said at an Air Force Association event near Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

In the Air National Guard, full-timers are categorized as either technicians or Active Guard and Reserve, or AGR. Those under the technician umbrella are civil servants and paid on the government scale. The Air Force created the technician slots as a way to train Guardsmen and maintain operational readiness without needing as many people.

'It would be my choice to turn those [technician slots] into AGR slots,' Lengyel said, which would help fill out the full-time Guard numbers.

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The National Guard Bureau is also looking at the same options as the Air Force when it comes to retaining pilots, including improving pilots' quality of life and possibly even retention bonuses.

But there's a key difference between the active force and the Guard.

'The only good news for me is you can be an airline pilot and a National Guard pilot' at the same time, he said, referencing how the Air Force is losing active-duty pilots to commercial airlines.

Part-time pilots, however, tend to stay longer than their full-time counterparts.

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The Guard is about a couple hundred pilots short when it comes to its full-time positions, Gen. Joseph Lengyel said at an Air Force Association event near Washington, D.C., on Thursday.

In the Air National Guard, full-timers are categorized as either technicians or Active Guard and Reserve, or AGR. Those under the technician umbrella are civil servants and paid on the government scale. The Air Force created the technician slots as a way to train Guardsmen and maintain operational readiness without needing as many people.

'It would be my choice to turn those [technician slots] into AGR slots,' Lengyel said, which would help fill out the full-time Guard numbers.

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The National Guard Bureau is also looking at the same options as the Air Force when it comes to retaining pilots, including improving pilots' quality of life and possibly even retention bonuses.

But there's a key difference between the active force and the Guard.

'The only good news for me is you can be an airline pilot and a National Guard pilot' at the same time, he said, referencing how the Air Force is losing active-duty pilots to commercial airlines.

Part-time pilots, however, tend to stay longer than their full-time counterparts.

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The total Air Force — active, Guard, Reserve — is short about 1,500 pilots, about 1,300 of whom are fighter pilots.