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    Helicopter Track

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    Army: you have to blouse your flight suit pants inside your boots everywhere you go unless your in an actual aircraft doing pilot stuff... then you’ll be expected to un-blouse your pants. Because being a pilot in the army doesn’t make you special. Therefore, the army will go the extra mile to make you look like a NONer/POG. You’ll never stay at fancy hotels or go on cool DTYs and will get to eat crap MREs all the time. Never wear a one piece flight suit and never feel like your a real pilot ever because hey... the army’s primary tasks and purpose in life is the ground force... everything else is secondary, and I totally get it. Don’t expect to make it pass W2 or O3 for a very very long time. The army will expect you to be happy eating crap as a W2/O3 for years!!!! while your AF friends are making O4 on time in grade only. Also don’t get sucked into the lie about warrant officers being a “flying” only track. Warrants still get the pleasure of getting sucked into doing lots and lots BS paperwork and admin crap. Don’t be a commission guy unless you hate flying and would feel comfortable flying a desk after making captain. The higher the rank in the Commission side, the more of a “hazard” you are to the flight because of the useless knowledge of being PowerPoint ranger taking valuable brain space. If your ever granted the high honor of flying a chinook, well that might be as close as you’ll get to being a Cool guy in army aviation. The UH60 guys are a bunch of power limited toolbags that struggle to lift a cheerio and the Apache guys have a real good time canceling flights because the 64 loves to sit broken in a hangar. Lastly, as a guard part time guy... the words “weekend warrior” will become distant memory/fantasy. Part time bros have to fly all the time, almost once a week, to meet minimums. It will be like having two full time jobs that will result in the loss of free time that should be dedicated to YOU and your family. Long commutes to drill are absolutely non-realistic. You can’t fly on the weekends because that would mess up the full timer’s personal weekend plans and don’t rely or expect to get any hours during drill weekend. Drill time will be better spent doing SHARP classes, thumb drive awareness classes, inventories, and attending promotion ceremonies of folks you have never meet. You will have to meet minimums on your own time Monday-Friday. You will also have to dedicate lots of your personal time at home studying that you’ll never get compensated for. The army guard program for the part time guys is not built for you so that you can have a better quality of life. Its built to support the army full timers and the full time program. If your okay with all of the above, then welcome to the “B team”. If not, I would try to be a full time guy if you can at all cause, at least for the first few years after flight school.

    I can’t speak for the AF Pedro guys but I was able to hack lots of missions with those boys back at KAF. Working alongside PJs is pretty cool. Not to mention that Pedro can accept a higher level of mission risk probably because the 50 cal or mini guns that can’t compete with the army’s 240 on a combat operation. I always got a real kick at watching how pissed off and disappointed the army MedEvac guys would get when a call would come in. If the Pedro was up and ready, they always got priority on answering the 9 line call. Leaving the army guys in the parking pad as running spare / backup to the A Team.

    Hope that helps. Go AF... cheers!



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    This made me laugh, you must be a green to blue guy


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