New Vs Old Pilots 

Army National Guard, Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, and Coast Guard Reserve, the entirety of U.S. reserve branches, all pretty much hire exclusively from their active duty component for pilots. For example, the Coast Guard Reserve only takes former active duty pilots. Very few reserve units want to spend the incredible costs out of their yearly unit budget to train someone off the streets when they can easily get pilots who are already trained from the active duty component who are looking to finish off their 20 years close to home with little of the active duty bull crap. Having a civilian PPL doesn't matter as you would still need to go through the military flight training pipeline. It's not impossible to "rush" for a unit off the street as a civilian but units very rarely open applications for off the street candidates, you have to pretty much have to know someone within the unit, establish a great relationship, and have an outstanding resume to even compete with those pilots coming from active duty who been there done that and often get preference.

@@Recklessness97Wonderfully stated. 👍🏾

@@Recklessness97 You have the inside scoop. I worked with pilots that had active-duty experience that couldn't even get reserve gigs, for one reason or another. I flew with one guy that had zero flight time, and a USAF reserve unit (C-130s) sent to flight school, but he had several years active-duty experience as a C-141 Loadmaster.

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