Originally Posted by tilnextime
I can only speak for one branch of the military, but we had no such standard as "minimum", only "fully qualified" or "not qualified" for the duty position and flying tasks to which assigned. Whatever mission tasks a given assignment entailed, you had to be trained and evaluated to "fully qualified" to perform crewmember duties on a flight assigned such tasks, unless flying with an instructor pilot.
Uh-huh. And someplace between "fully qualified" and "not qualified" is a line. That line might be a very simple standard, or it might be a fairly complex set of standards. Regardless it exists. If you were above that line, you were "fully qualified" and if you were below that line you were "not qualified"
That line would the "minimum"