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AF vs. Marines
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NavyLonghorn
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I never met an airforce guy that got recruited off the street.. I think it is something they do very rarely.
NavyLonghorn
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If you go back to the origonal question, the person asking is a college grad (off the street). Since I am Navy, and went to Vance when I made this name.. I am Navy Vance. Anything else?
They have plenty of ROTC kids get pilot slots too, but all the OTS guys were either reserve, guard, or transfers from other officer communities.
They have plenty of ROTC kids get pilot slots too, but all the OTS guys were either reserve, guard, or transfers from other officer communities.
NavyLonghorn
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I'm sure they exhist, just arent very common in my experience.
From what I understand (the AF was the first place I looked when I decided to seriously consider military aviation), OTS takes very few pilots from off the street.zippy said:
http://balder.prohosting.com/live2fly/
This guy came from off the street...
Maybe, but don't they play a lot of badminton at TBS?DocT said:
zippy said:
There was recent thread over at baseops.net discussing the use of OTS as an "officer faucet". From what I gathered, when Academy or AFROTC numbers projections aren't meeting forecasted needs, they open more OTS slots to "off the street" guys.
I'd post a link, but my coffee is getting cold.
I started out in AFROTC in college, with the goal of becoming a navigator. I worked hard and got "promoted" within ROTC. At the end of my freshman year I applied to take the nav aptitude test and was not allowed to because I wore glasses, despite that not being mentioned as a problem when I joined ROTC.
During my junior year I applied to the surface Navy. No go -- glasses. I then applied to the Coast Guard. No go -- glasses. One day Naval Air came to campus and I was sort of mooning around the display when an ENS (on recruting duty waiting to start flight school) said 'hi.' We started to talk and I told him I was working toward my private pilot's license and naval aviation looked like great duty, but since I wore glasses I realized that I couldn't qualify as a Navy navigator. He said, 'well, take the test; what have you got to lose?'
So I did well on the flying aptitude test (despite my major being Anthropology) and then I went to NAS South Weymouth for my flight physical and they said 'sorry, your vision is above the 20/50 minimum.' At that point I started to get pissed at not being accepted by the military despite my wanting to serve so I reapplied. Again, no. So I re-re-applied. At my third flight physical the flt surgeon wrote, "eyes 20/100 but motivation ++++++++++++++++++++++++."
Several months later I was accepted to AOCS. Yes, Vietnam was hot and a lot of jos were being shot down, so they needed more people. But I wound up in the best service after all. My best friend in college finished AFROTC and wound-up in a missile silo at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, a duty he so hated that he was released early after telling his CO what he thought of him and the Air Force in general.
When I think back to AFROTC and compare that with AOCS the superiority of Navy over Air Force is stark.
During my junior year I applied to the surface Navy. No go -- glasses. I then applied to the Coast Guard. No go -- glasses. One day Naval Air came to campus and I was sort of mooning around the display when an ENS (on recruting duty waiting to start flight school) said 'hi.' We started to talk and I told him I was working toward my private pilot's license and naval aviation looked like great duty, but since I wore glasses I realized that I couldn't qualify as a Navy navigator. He said, 'well, take the test; what have you got to lose?'
So I did well on the flying aptitude test (despite my major being Anthropology) and then I went to NAS South Weymouth for my flight physical and they said 'sorry, your vision is above the 20/50 minimum.' At that point I started to get pissed at not being accepted by the military despite my wanting to serve so I reapplied. Again, no. So I re-re-applied. At my third flight physical the flt surgeon wrote, "eyes 20/100 but motivation ++++++++++++++++++++++++."
Several months later I was accepted to AOCS. Yes, Vietnam was hot and a lot of jos were being shot down, so they needed more people. But I wound up in the best service after all. My best friend in college finished AFROTC and wound-up in a missile silo at Malmstrom AFB, Montana, a duty he so hated that he was released early after telling his CO what he thought of him and the Air Force in general.
When I think back to AFROTC and compare that with AOCS the superiority of Navy over Air Force is stark.