jcollins

As a member of the Guard (enlisted, officer, it doesn't matter - I've used it as both) you get 36 months of the base SR GI Bill after you finish your initial training which will be $329/month in FY09. At the minimum you'll have to wait until after you get back from AMS, and probably after you get back from UPT.

Single engine GA, 1000 ft AGL decision height. Although I have done it successfully at ~700 ft or so (tailwind...).

There are ways you can turn this question around. For example: "l like to get things done, be the best and win. I'm a Type A personality. Some times I can be very demanding with people who do not work as hard as me." There, you just said you were a hard worker (emphasis) who sometimes gets impatient with people who aren't.

Why do you want to fly for the reserves now?? Being a college student you have no civilian career to fall back on. Go on active duty, do the pilot gig for a few years, get your steady paycheck and build your hours so that when you Palace Chase to the Guard you can have a civilian career rather than being a broke Guard bum.

If you get his name and duty station, someone can look him up on the Global and answer your question pretty quick.

This pretty much answers your question right here, since the above is impossible. And yeah, every Viper driver I've known calls themself such. Typically the enlisted MX troops use the "Fighting Falcon" moniker.

I think a lot of you guys are putting way too much thought into this. I always played along with the Lts don't salute Lts, but mostly for practical reasons - it's hard to see the tint of the bar sometimes, and it's easier just to give a "what's up" to someone you know is your peer anyway. Enlisted folks, I have chided a couple airmen for blatant disregard and blowing me off, but usually I give people the benefit of the doubt. I know the times when I missed saluting an officer when I was an airman were embarrassing enough and I really didn't need to be chewed out about it. As for called NCOs "sir", I don't do it, simply because they earned the title "Sergeant", and they want to be called that. Chiefs especially, I would never call a Chief anything but "Chief" because the fact that they earned that title means more than a hundred "sirs" tossed their way. But that's just my take, you guys are officers, make up your own minds on the way you want to do things.

One of the things you will learn as an Lt is people will push the line, to see how much you will give. It happens in every career field, not just pilot trainees. As a full up prior-enlisted officer I have been blown off by airmen. I'm not a dick about it but I corrected them. When I was an airmen I never blew off officers, why should they? By the same token you can't go around demanding respect, especially if you are an Lt brand-new to the military. Work it out.

Congratulations. We're not perfect, but I believe we have the privilege to live in the greatest country in the world.

When told to come in, walk in, march at attention, face chairman of board, "Sir LT (or whatever your rank is) ### reports as ordered" while saluting, get your salute returned, drop and take your seat. At the end, stand up at attention, ask "Will that be all sir", salute, "Good day sir", march out. Some boards take this less seriously than others (I can remember hearing the story from an AMS classmate, who was going to fly pointy-nose fighters, that his board started openly snickering when he did it). But it's better to err on the caution, and hey, have some pride. You're in the military, none of the civilian applicants are going to know how to do it. Good way to set yourself apart.

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I had time every day to throw my contacts in.

Dude...I think this guy is on to something, I found McGhee Tyson to be pretty gay too...just kidding staff!!

ANG officers are federally recognized, so once you are commissioned, you are commissioned. Only hitch would be if you commissioned without a bachelors degree, you need one to switch components (reserve to active etc). Reference ANGI 36-2005 for more info.

Does anyone actually offer a real, ABET-accredited engineering program online? Even if you are smart enough to do everything yourself (something I, a EE, find a very hard time doing, so I group up), the fact that we have a lot of design labs and a capstone design project to fulfill ABET requirements would pretty much make it impossible to do online. Physics students are the same (sans capstone design project I believe). Flyguy, I admire your tenacity in any case. Good luck

What is a platoon weekend?? Do you mean drill weekend? And if you want to make connections that is probably the best time to do it.

As an engineer...JS I have to say you nailed it. The question is kinda ambiguous (to say the least) And, as a MX guy...I have to say that in any case my bird is probably going to break...which is going to cause us (actually, those poor crew chiefs) grief... [ 24. December 2005, 16:52: Message edited by: jcollins ]

In my experience the prosecutor will cut you slack especially if he finds out you are affiliated with the military. These guys deal with dirtbags all the time and are glad to help out someone who is polite and respectful.

Every AFB should have CATM as part of their Security Forces squadron. Whether it's live fire or not depends. My Guard unit has the laser system, I can't recall the technical term for it. The only thing I remember about it is that you can't place marksman on it no matter how well you do. Anyway, when I was a ROTC cadet the kids would go instead to a Navy base (Groton) to qualify on live fire, so you shouldn'y be restricted to just Air Force bases. Good luck [ 29. August 2005, 20:17: Message edited by: jcollins ]