Champ Kind

I still respectfully disagree. Do what you WANT to do, and if the USAF will buy what you're selling them, awesome. I got a scholarship out of high school. A non-technical one. I've never liked math/engineering, etc. Did I excel at it? Yes. Enjoy it? Hell no. So I majored in Political Science, something I was sure that I would enjoy. I decided that I was not going to tailor my education and my life, that early-on, around what I thought (as an 18 year-old) the USAF wanted me to do. The only thing that I can say to support the "tech vs. non-tech" debate is that the Air Force DOES give out more technical scholarships than non-tech. That's a fact, but I don't know the exact percentages. You could probably search the ROTC forums and find out a better answer. If you aren't interested in scholarships at all (ie, school's paid for), then don't sweat it. When you apply for pilot, all that the selection process takes into account is your GPA. A 4.0 in Engineering is just the same as a 4.0 in Submarine Screendoor Installation. Now, a 4.0 in Engineering, coupled with you being a good little cadet might score some more points on your Commander's Ranking, but that's completely subjective and another conversation all together. So, in short, if you are going to apply for a non-tech scholarship, you'd better have your stuff in a sock and be able to have your application stand out among the others. Good luck. EDIT: "2" to Tertle. He beat me to it.

Four-year degree: Yes Tech or non-tech: It matters not.

The only guy that made it back in our flight did so because literally no one wanted to even try to dunk him. He acted like that big of a D-bag. Naturally, he comes running into the flight room, out of breath, and was yelling, "I want my beer! I made it back in!" The 5 or 6 people in the flightroom just kind of looked up from what we were doing, raised our eyebrows and/or shrugged, then went back to studying/BSing/whatever it was that we were doing. He never got his beer, and he bitched & moaned to the Flt/CC about it. He even made up a little list of what kind of beer he wanted from everyone. I say again, what a D-bag.

Thank heavens.

I'd hit it.

Maybe we can all learn binary.... 1100101=

That's a sick looking instrument panel for a small GA plane.

I use USAA's Cornerstone strategy fund. No complaints at all and it's been working out well since I started it about two years ago. My only advice would be to avoid any company that charges up-front fees.

Nice. I was actually walking back from a sortie today and I saw a flag by MX at half staff and I asked why there were still flags at half staff.

Or just don't say anything about them to anyone....

I'm sure you'll be the ONLY person buying a Camaro when those come back out.....

Well that gives me something to look forward to.

Could it maybe have something to do with the fact that most Army guys are commanding a platoon of troops approx. 6-9 weeks after commissioning (be it in Iraq or garrison) while their USAF counterparts (at least the non-shoe types) are making jalepeno corn, manning the paper shredder, or learning how to fly jets? On top of that, once said LTs are done learning to fly jets, they probably won't hold any type of leadership position until years down the road.

I guess they have all that money to spare for their orange/white since they sure as hell don't use it on MX, plasma screens, and..... grass.

^^^^^ Some of the best advice I've seen on here. Read & heed.

If that's the case......then wow. As a stud, why should you give two shits what color your trainer is? Unless you're putting warheads on foreheads, passing gas, or doing airdrops/airland in Derka Derka Stan (sorry for the missions I left out... I wasn't trying to be all-inclusive), you are not in an "operational jet". Stud: (as he's getting off the crew bus at UPT base) "Sweet! We have a 'grey jet' today.... I feel the need... the need.....for speed! Let's go hack the mish!" Come on....

Thread Revival: I heard a rumor that UPT could count towards elective credits in the ERAU Aeronautical Science Masters program.... Can anyone who has gone that route confirm this?

It would be awesome to get the OCONUS extended, but I'd been hoping that I would be able to go Ops-Ops anyway, so that works.

How about OCONUS assignments?

Disclaimer: Just playing devil's advocate. Maybe they give a flying turd, since it's in their country.... I don't want this to derail the thread, but I think we're looking at two different issues here. Shoe-clerk trying to be NCO of the Quarter and return from the war-zone a hero in his flawless execution of all rules and regulations VS someone who understands why the "no PDA" rule is in effect (culturally) and wants to avoid some kind of incident if some Muslim-types were around to observe what was going on. That's about the only way I could put this into context, but I'd bet money it went down along the lines of situation # 1 (shoeclerk being a rule-nazi). But, as I said earlier, and maybe I'm being naive, but if those are the rules of their society, maybe we should follow them too, so long as we are in their country. Just a thought, probably not even worth $.02 as I have not yet had the opportunity to deploy.

It was always funny to hear guys checking-in on their area solos inverted, particularly when all the freqs were busy.... "SIRE......51......(A-GASM).....ESTAB....(A-GASM).....LISHED.... AREA 3.....(A-GASM).... LOW"

This is probably the best advice to read & heed on this topic. Bottom line, you should probably look as close to perfect as possible on paper (ie, GPA, PFT, AFOQT, no legal/disciplinary problems, etc.), and then do NOT kiss ass. That's not to say to avoid getting "face-time" in class, lead lab, PT, the Det, whatever. You are basically just making up for lost time with your performance.

So, here's a question... If I go ahead and "check the box", getting my Online MBA or something of the sort, would that hurt my chances for getting selected for an in-residence Graduate program (throgh the USAF) in the future? ie, would whatever board is taking applications look at the files and say, "Oh, well this guy already has a Masters, even if it is from Clown College, BFE Campus.... He doesn't need this program"?

But then you'll have PT gear nametapes....and PT gear occupational badges....and PT gear squadron patches. Who knows, after a while some idiot will invent PT gear awards. Maybe they'll have little smiley-face stickers (like the one the people-greeter hands out to the kids at Wal-Mart) or gold stars for when you do something correctly. ....Yeah, can't wait. :rolleyes:

So were you kidding, or not? :D