Quote Originally Posted by redrumracer
thats what i fig you were talking about, our director of flight was in the navy and was talking to one of my classmates about that program. i looked into it several times. i really like the guaranteed flight spot for the program tho.
I never considered the Coast Guard till I saw that initiative (plus the age thing) apparently Aviation slots are very competitive in the CG so to come in with a guaranteed spot is huge. Plus the mission of the CG is really starting to grow on me.


Quote Originally Posted by BABY J
Just be sure that you can pass a military flight physical - and yes it's different than a civillian physical. Also be prepared to pass water survival (sv80) (Tyndall AFB, FL or Fairchild AFB, WA) and SERE school (sv82) at Fairchild AFB. I can tell you everything you need to learn about passing both of those, to include the POW camp "simulation".

(welcome home after flying counter-drug missions in the Phillipines and S. America - we had on-station times of 17hours non-stop - bunch of aerial refuelings and a bunch of moutain dew - lol)


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What airframe? I was applying for Loadmaster at my current unit but the recruiter f'd me and signed me up for Air Transportation. This fall I will apply for Nav within the unit so I'm going to try and schedule a Class III physical when I come back from training