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Thanks for the info. Has anyone on this board ever applied too or even flew with the 920th RQW down in FL? I know the reserve hiring process is a different beast, but I'm not even sure that unit hires off the street.

Where did you get this gouge? I've been monitoring the rescue wings from a distance, but all I've seen is AK is hiring soon. edit: past, present, and future tense is hard.

pro-tip: clear and concise goes a long way in aviation. but then again, I guess your not the one interested in flying; your wife's college aged brother is the flyboy in the family.

what does palace chase and palace front mean? I saw it on a document the other day and I always thought it was just a phrase you guys here at baseops used..

Why's this? because you get to create your own curriculum and allows you to be more versatile to employers? I'm a the point where I have to pick the actual degree. can't decide between poly sci, philo, or something else equally as useless.. ahh I see. is 'FENCE' an acronym?

Why this? Save it for when you get out out UPT? Or do you just recommend that we save uncle sam's money ..

What do you think about intel? my unit only supports heavy's and there are no aircrew positions open.. I'd like to get picked up by a fighter squadron in a few years

Are you inferring flight engineers have a good shot at getting selected? I briefly looked into it..

What does this really mean? I see guys refrence "scoobs" all the time like it's a running joke on this board.. I see your point Sir, but that's the way it goes sometimes I guess

Thanks, I appreciate your input. I suppose this whole dream of mine has become a bit of an obsession rather than a simple career goal. But maybe that's what it takes, only time will tell.. feel free to substitute "passion" for "obsessions" but when a guy such as myself sacrifices his fun job, university lifestyle and girl friend to pursue a job that might get my foot in the door down the road then I think that fact of the matter becomes clear haha. Damn, now that I think about it, i'm in deep!

Thanks for all the responses. I always over looked the "instrument rating" when budgeting for flying but now I see the error of my ways. I believe that If I was given a shot at UPT I would give it 100% full throttle the whole way through and succeed. It blows my mind when I'm reading "advice from graduates" and a reoccurring suggestion is "try not to fall asleep in class! hurrdurr!" Now, I'm sure it's very mentally and physically demanding but I mean comon.. Secondly, I want to clarify that I wanted to accumulate all this bad ass aerobatic experience and know how to basically impress a prospective ANG/AFRC selection board. I'm sure I could be taught to fly from scratch by the USAF but I wanted this aero stuff under my belt to demonstrate my ability to keep calm under pressure, have situational awareness, and more or less relate to the fighter pilots on the board (in a subtle way).. Also, it gives me something to do with all this signing bonus money.. did I mention i'm an E-3 wrench turner??.. get in line ladies..

I agree with every aspect of your response, including the gay italian kid. I mean that jewelry, wtf? you can find him on facebook too. And I know that civilian flying doesn't hold a torch to military flying, especially fighters but I just want to be "the real deal" I want to cover every aspect of my life from prior service to competitive flying experience so when I walk into that interview my experience speaks for itself and it's a done deal.. I don't just want to squeak by with the minimums I want a career as a pilot..

The 2012 IAC sportsman, intermediate and advanced u.s. national champs where all USAFA guys. Despite the thick sarcasm that I've barely managed to get through I think i've learned a valuable lesson here (despite you-all's best effort). It's that glider time is in fact not respected or even considered real aviating by anyone in the USAF. I suppose this answers my question in a backwards kind of way. But, I'm still going to try it out if I get the chance since that dago on youtube made it look cool and at half the price of a powered aircraft! Thanks baseops!

yea i saw this kid on youtube, and did some research on it too. See, he makes glider aerobatics look bad ass* but there appears to be a huge glider culture in Europe (he's in Italy). *relative term used

I don't follow ?..