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https://apnews.com/article/pandemics-suicide-prevention-coronavirus-pandemic-d8d9168403baa6660e5125c040b2ae81 Seems like a few people on this forum were proven wrong.

The 2 commandants in between, actually, although I’ve talked to them all. Agree with most everything else you said. The benefit of USAF TPS, in my opinion, over Epner, Navy, or the UK is that you will have a much higher chance of having peers or people you know that you can reach out to once you graduate. That has proved valuable to me when I’ve needed to contact someone at another CTF and, between the 72 people I met (junior/senior classes), I almost always had a name.

Agreed with everything Magellan said except for this part. If you check boxes you don’t actually want to go to, you might get sent to AFIT or the Navy when you don’t want to go there. I confirmed this with 2 commandants: they don’t take into account GRE scores or whether or not you volunteer overseas/navy/AFIT into whether you get in. They literally just do “accept/waitlist/deny” then determine who’s going to the nonstandard places after among the pool of folks that got in. And after being in the business, I would recommend not going to AFIT and going to USAF TPS in almost all cases. Only exception is going to France/UK if your spouse really wants to travel (with a hit in the quality of school) or going to the Navy if you fly helicopters.

Hah, literally the exact same thing right back atcha buddy.

You're probably right, but it's kinda crazy to think of the Army being the proud owners of the geopolitical situation we're currently in. 19 (or 30+, depending on how you count it) years later and we have made little to no progress in regional stabilization, all while costing us multiple trillions of dollars. I would be significantly more impressed with the CJCS is he could call a spade a spade and admit that we are assuredly in the region of diminishing returns. The Air Force and the Navy are maintaining relevance and securing funding currently by focusing messaging on the future fights and the need to meet that threat. Maybe the Army should do that.