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Holy shit, 4 whole years? You don't like the living arrangements, find a different career. Jesus. When you're deployed, you gunna bitch that you don't have your own room?

Wow...you're a tough dude. No one is saying that hurt feelings need to lead to removal from command, but are you telling me she is a good leader? I have seen and dealt with a lot of shit in my career and what good can come from this style of leadership? She isn't using fear and ridicule to teach. She's just using it to get her jollies. The chick sounds unstable.

Last class at Randolph indocs in December. There will be no F-15/B-1 drops at Randolph.

It is true...to a point. The VA offers something called the Educational Assistance Allowance for trainees under the Survivors' and Dependents' Educational Assistance Program (DEA), which is lengthy title that basically says this: DEA provides education and training opportunities to eligible dependents of veterans who are permanently and totally disabled due to a service-related condition, or who died while on active duty or as a result of a service related condition. The program offers up to 45 months of education benefits. These benefits may be used for degree and certificate programs, apprenticeship, and on-the-job training. If you are a spouse, you may take a correspondence course. Remedial, deficiency, and refresher courses may be approved under certain circumstances. Full-time students can receive up to $915.00 per month for 45 months while they are in school (according to the VA website). There are smaller payment plans for those not going full time. My cousins both attended Texas Tech tuition free (their father was killed in a training accident just after Vietnam). So, college isn't necessarily all paid for (depending on where they go), but a large chunk would be. All the info is at the VA website under the Education tab.

Navs will not be Forward Air Controllers. Navs will be training at PCola in 2010. Last class at Randolph in Jan 10. If you don't have your PPL, you'll go to IFS in Pueblo. You can apply for pilot after 2 years of getting your nav wings. If you can handle 6th grade math, you can handle nav school math. Not stunted at all. 19th AF commander is a nav turned pilot. 2 star general. Pretty sure that means career will not be stunted.

I'm an instructor at nav school and I can tell you that you will be a second class citizen if you believe that you are. If you have a positive attitude and do your job well, you will get the respect of everyone in your operational squadron. Will there be some b!tch @ss pilots that consider you second class? Maybe a couple. But f*ck them. You're going to come across @ssholes no matter what career field you go into, military or civilian. If you weren't a valuable member of the crew, then you wouldn't be there. Make sure you drop this whiny @ss attitude before you come down to Randolph, though. Your concerns speak more about how you view yourself as opposed to how most others view the nav. I don't want to waste my time on someone who doesn't want to be here. I'll make time to help someone that does.