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I use my laptop's touch pad.
PROTIP: Hold enter when the script windows start popping up. Slow down to a steady tap as you reach the end, however, because if you don't you'll end up reopening the window and starting it all back over from the beginning.
I only know this because I'm gullible and have clicked on that same ######ing link too many times to count.
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Curious question for you folks. I just received my non-select from the 10-01 Rated Board for OTS. I had already planned to go back for my Masters if I was a non-select and that got me thinking, would I qualify to do a 2 year ROTC program while I take my Masters? If so, are my chances better for getting a rated slot through ROTC vs OTS (I'd think so since they slid more Officer slots to ROTC/AFA recently).
Is it something that's doable for someone working a full time job (some flexibility in schedule), a husband and a father to a 1 year old? I know it'll be an additional time constraint and I'm OK with that. I guess what I'm asking is would I be looked at with less fortune if I'm busier than most?
Thought? Opinions? Should I just stick to trying for OTS or would the ROTC be the better chance? I really want to fly, but if I bust the age limit, I'm willing to take anything so long as I can serve as an Officer.
BTW - I did read this whole thread and the "Work while at ROTC" thread. Just trying to get some more recent information that pertains to Master's only ROTC cadets.
I'd like to know what you find out on this if you end up pursuing it, but from what I've heard going through ROTC in a masters program is a no-go right now. Its a relatively new development, I do believe, and I doubt it'll be that way for forever. Just the next few years or so. Then again, my intel on that could be way wrong.
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Slacker; I agree there is nothing wrong with wanting to be a pilot and not a Nav. But, if you didn't want to be a Nav, why would you put down a #2 choice of "Nav" on your application? If you just want to be a pilot, and otherwise will not take the slot, why not just put "Pilot?" That's why the question is there, so that the huge pain of all the paperwork his poor recruiter had to do, as well as the time of the busy Col's on the selection board was not wasted. It's easy, just check the box "Pilot". Now, what this guy has done is taken a slot from someone who may have really wanted the job and done very well at it.
I'm not ranting about wanting to be a pilot, I'm not ranting about being a little down about being picked up as a Nav and not realizing a dream, what I'm ranting about is being selfish; I'm ranting about taking someones slot because you wanted to look like you were "All in" when you really were not.
As a fairly competitive applicant who didn't make the cut for pilot or nav on a fairly competitive board, I whole heartedly agree with this.
Whatever, man. You didn't take a slot from me, I guess. Maybe if I was a little bit better on paper I would have gotten one. But believe me, it pisses me the ###### off to watch you acting like a douchebag talking all this trash about "oh well if I can't be a pilot maybe I just won't serve." Trust me, there were a lot of good people that didn't get picked up that would have given their left nut (if they could get a waiver for it) for that slot you're acting like a little bitch about. That right there tells me your mind was in the wrong place when you applied.
/sour grapes rant
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How exactly do you study for the spacial orientation ? Are there any good resources online or anything?
Flash cards.
Take one set, and draw up and airplane flying over the four squares at headings of 0, 45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270, and 315.
Take another sheet, draw about 12 sets of four squares with a N, S, E or W next to them. This is your answer sheet. Mix up the first set of cards and flip through them, marking the North, East, South or West squares as indicated by the N/S/E/W on your answer sheet. Repeat. You'll notice a pattern.
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I took mine and raised it from a 44 with 0 hours to an 85 with 10 hours.
The biggest thing I did was study the crap out of the direction orientation bit (the UAV part). Even then, I still made a few stupid errors and missed way too many, which I think made the big difference between an 85 and a score in the 90s.
Other than that, getting a few hours under my belt helped alot with stick and rudder coordination. That's pretty much all I did.
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Wow. Serious props to the marketing guy who thought up that slogan. I can't stop laughing.
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Go for it. So what if something magical happens and you lose it? You can just take it again and, if you did well the first time, you'll probably do well the second too. Plus, if you don't do as well as anticipated, it gives you plenty of times to wait that 180 days for a retake without being in any sort of a time crunch.
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If I get a pilot slot, what's about the average time before UPT starts?
Board gets released in December. Factor in a minimum year's wait for OTS, another 3 months for OTS, and then your time on casual waiting for UPT...I'd say two years is a good estimate.
Dude, if speed is your primary concern you might want to look into another branch. This process isn't exactly quick for anyone. ABMs may not be as backlogged as pilots in the OTS pipeline, but a year's wait still isn't out of the question.
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LSU can have their 15-4 wins, sir.
A win in 25 innings. Erasing a 6-0 deficit against Arizona State to win before clinching a spot in the title game with two homers in the bottom of the freakin ninth?
That is a team of destiny.
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REVIVAL
I have a crown in the upper right hand corner of my mouth that chipped a while back. Not a small chip either. Like I can feel a hole with my tongue back there.
Anyway, I went to the dentist, who poked and prodded and determined that the actual structural integrity of the crown was intact and it was still serving its intended purpose. It just looks kind of effed up -- a cosmetic problem.
Anyways, is this going to be a problem me when I go to Brooks or in for my FC1 or whatever? Should I go through the asspain and pay out a few hundred to have it replaced, or am I going to be ok just because its a cosmetic problem?
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Porn you say?
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They don't give you a TBAS score, do they? I just took it yesterday and got my PCSM score of 97 with a pilot AFOQT score of 82 and 9 flying hours.
No, they don't from what I hear. And frankly, I don't think you need one judging by your numbers there. Sounds like you kilt it. Congrats.
The Rise and Fall of Captain Holly Graf (USN)
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Dude, what? She looks like a ######ing leprechaun.