Airforce question

Originally Posted by TheJ

Maybe there aren't any slots available. I don't know why it didn't occur to me earlier, but I have friend, Kevin, who was a commercial pilot for years before joining the Air Force. He's still not flying. He's waiting for his turn.

Just out of curiosity, what kind of commercial pilot is he? I was always under the assumption that commercial pilots that flew for the airlines were almost always ex-USAF because that was about the only way to get enough hours. I am not speaking from experience, but I always heard that airline pilots needed like 1000 hours of flight time or something huge like that before they could fly people.