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I have never been one of those dudes that loves aviation for the fact that it is aviation. However, flying an airplane with "US Air Force" painted on the side is the coolest thing ever. Where you said you enjoy challenges, that makes me think that you would love to be a pilot. You'll go through UPT and think that starting the airplane is going to make you bleed from the ears at first. Before long you'll be doing aerobatics and flying in the weather off of some goofy looking drawing on a piece of paper they keep calling a "plate". And right about the time you get the hang of that, they'll add another airplane into the mix. Once you get the hang of that, you'll move onto a faster jet (usually) and it starts all over. Then when you're mister shit hot pilot dude, you'll realize that all that stuff you just learned for a year is just how to get to/from the actual work in the airplane and you really don't know a damn thing. Repeat the same process through IFF/RTU/2 FLUG/ ACUG/ IPUG/Airdrop/ whatever. Very rewarding and constantly challenging.

...the Falklands War started! to the Brits! Cheers! M2

I hate wading into the bomber free-for-all again, but the initial point (valid or not, its a statistic and we all know about those) was a comparison of various platforms in an attempt to get a cost per DPI. Several people have discussed range and loiter time. If you want to make this comparison (still not claiming it holds great value) you need to hold some of the variables constant to get a good comparison. Therefor, you either need to compare fuel burn and targets on a short range sortie (Nellis range from Nellis?) or compare fuel burn and targets on a long range sortie (F-16s flying from Diego Garcia?) Second, you throw out that B-1s aren't nuke capable. They were, but the US Government traded that capability away as part of the START treaty. If we really had to, I'm sure the B-1 could go back, but I hope they don't. Does the B-1 work with JASSM? Yes, I ran OT&E. We train to that capability. I'm sure you also know that MALD is initially planned to go to the B-52 and F-16 (Objective platforms) and will eventually migrate to others - B-1 included. As to the initial statement that the B-1 may go away soon, I highly doubt that given its current role in the CENTCOM AOR. We now return you to a debate about lies, damnable lies and statistics.

No joke. Example: This chart ONLY considers the best aspects of the B-1. It doesn't take into account the fact that the B-1s aren't nuke capable and the BUFFs are the only ones that fly with the ALCM & CALCM. Throw on top of that the combat range of the B-1 (3000NM) vs either of the other two (B-52: 4500NM & B-2: estimated ~2500NM), so range and loiter time clearly aren't factored in. Does the B-1 work with JASSM frequently? MALD?

GET SOME!!!!!

Anybody ever think of the bigger picture than, hey they aren't as special as me they shouldn't get a flight suit!? The point of ROTC is to recruit and train new officers for the Air Force. You have a bunch of kids walking around campus in BDU's or now ABU's apparently, and everybody says, look at the Army kids. But you see a group of people walking around in flight suits and they say, look its Air Force pilots, pilots are cool. Sure they aren't pilots yet, sure from within the Air Force they may not have "earned" the bag yet but none of the other students on campus know that. It's quite simply the best uniform are far as recruiting college kids to join ROTC.

they should wear space suits