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<blockquote data-quote="Yellow98SVT" data-source="post: 1823151" data-attributes="member: 10702"><p>Completed a full Naval Flight Contract upon graduation. He needs to have 20/20 eyesight uncorrected. To get into the academy, he'll need a excellent GPA...3.5+. He'll need to be in top physical condition as well. Without a class 1 PT score, he doesn't stand a chance. It's a great deal with one drawback...the required obligation. In the Navy/Marine Corps he'll have to commit to 9 years after flight school for rotorcraft and 11 years for fixed wing aircraft. Thats beyond OCS and Flight School. The long and short of it is this...if you want to be an Aviator in the US Armed Forces you have to commit a minimum of 15 years to the military. Each Naval Aviator requires nearly 2 million dollars to train and certify as a fleet aviator. Young manh needs to take very close stock of who he is and what he wants. If he isn't a true adventurer, a true outdoorsman and a very disciplined person he is gonna find himself in a tough spot. If you are one of the people that can conform to that life, it's a great deal. I will say this however...I know of MANY men that are flat miserable doing something they don't like because it looked great on the brochure. Also, bear in mind, anything can happen along the way. We have family friend's whose son attended OCS and Flight School just to get bounced out on a final flight physical because his eye sight strayed from 20/20 to 20/50 in the two years he was in flight school. That kid finished flight school and never made it to the fleet as an aviator. So, it is a great deal if it fits your life, however, having experienced it for 30 years growing up...it ain't for everybody. If you attend a military academy, OCS, flight school and then the initial obligation...youre looking down the barrell of 20 active years of service. Make sure it is damn certain it's what he wants to be and do. My father did it...was horrendously succesful and it fit him well. He became one of the most highly decorated aviators in the history of the Marine Corps. He is also a VERY, VERY, VERY lucky man to survived what he encountered as a Marine Corps aviator. He will be the first to tell you that he watched many better men than himself die doing what he did for a living. If he really wants to go in tell him this....AirForce or Navy for Jets, Army for Rotorcraft and Marine Corps for ground. Also...DO NOT TAKE ONE SINGLE WORD ANY RECRUITER TELLS YOU AT FACE VALUE!!!!! Do the homework, find out for yourself. There is NO end to the crap a recruiter will pass off on a kid to get his name on the contract. Once the name hits the contract, he has NO recourse at ANY level. Just for shits and giggles send him to the local Air Force recruiter and tell him that he wants to be a Pilot...they will try to convince him that enlisting with them is his best bet...IT IS NOT!!!!!!!!! They don't get credit for the officer packets...only the enlisted ones. Each branch has it's own Officer Selection People that have NOTHING to do with enlisted recruiters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yellow98SVT, post: 1823151, member: 10702"] Completed a full Naval Flight Contract upon graduation. He needs to have 20/20 eyesight uncorrected. To get into the academy, he'll need a excellent GPA...3.5+. He'll need to be in top physical condition as well. Without a class 1 PT score, he doesn't stand a chance. It's a great deal with one drawback...the required obligation. In the Navy/Marine Corps he'll have to commit to 9 years after flight school for rotorcraft and 11 years for fixed wing aircraft. Thats beyond OCS and Flight School. The long and short of it is this...if you want to be an Aviator in the US Armed Forces you have to commit a minimum of 15 years to the military. Each Naval Aviator requires nearly 2 million dollars to train and certify as a fleet aviator. Young manh needs to take very close stock of who he is and what he wants. If he isn't a true adventurer, a true outdoorsman and a very disciplined person he is gonna find himself in a tough spot. If you are one of the people that can conform to that life, it's a great deal. I will say this however...I know of MANY men that are flat miserable doing something they don't like because it looked great on the brochure. Also, bear in mind, anything can happen along the way. We have family friend's whose son attended OCS and Flight School just to get bounced out on a final flight physical because his eye sight strayed from 20/20 to 20/50 in the two years he was in flight school. That kid finished flight school and never made it to the fleet as an aviator. So, it is a great deal if it fits your life, however, having experienced it for 30 years growing up...it ain't for everybody. If you attend a military academy, OCS, flight school and then the initial obligation...youre looking down the barrell of 20 active years of service. Make sure it is damn certain it's what he wants to be and do. My father did it...was horrendously succesful and it fit him well. He became one of the most highly decorated aviators in the history of the Marine Corps. He is also a VERY, VERY, VERY lucky man to survived what he encountered as a Marine Corps aviator. He will be the first to tell you that he watched many better men than himself die doing what he did for a living. If he really wants to go in tell him this....AirForce or Navy for Jets, Army for Rotorcraft and Marine Corps for ground. Also...DO NOT TAKE ONE SINGLE WORD ANY RECRUITER TELLS YOU AT FACE VALUE!!!!! Do the homework, find out for yourself. There is NO end to the crap a recruiter will pass off on a kid to get his name on the contract. Once the name hits the contract, he has NO recourse at ANY level. Just for shits and giggles send him to the local Air Force recruiter and tell him that he wants to be a Pilot...they will try to convince him that enlisting with them is his best bet...IT IS NOT!!!!!!!!! They don't get credit for the officer packets...only the enlisted ones. Each branch has it's own Officer Selection People that have NOTHING to do with enlisted recruiters. [/QUOTE]
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