Joe
Even with your advanced years (
) the option of training to be a pilot is certainly a viable one.
Whilst the military do have an ongoing requirement for Aeromedical specialists (not just examiners) and will provide the pilot training to allow practical experience to be gained, I regret to say you are probably a little late. It may be worth a shout to confirm that fact.
This means commercial flying. There are many threads here that will confirm that the the market is dead and there are pilots still being made redundant. Training - whichever route you take - is expensive and the overwhelming advice here is to wait until the recovery is under way.
In the airline I work for, bmi, we have two pilots who are also the company doctors and both are AMEs. It make financial sense for the company doc to do the annual medicals to save the reimbursement fees although of course each pilot is under absolutely no pressure to use the company AME - some are unnecessarily very suspicious of allowing their records to be seen by company employees!
Finally, your age is not a problem; I became a commercial pilot in my mid 40s taking all my ATPL exams in one go - including Perf A. Hard work but it can be done.
HWB