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From: ifaq570@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Kitchen)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Pilot Cutbacks
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Date: 8 Jun 91 05:06:30 GMT
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From: ifaq570@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Kitchen)


>From: havens@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jean Elizabeth Havens)
>	I am currently in Air Force ROTC and also a student at the 
>University of Pennsylvania. I had a pilot slot, but it was taken away
>about two months ago in the pilot cutbacks. 

Well Jean, Odds are, if you don't start out on the pilot track, you
won't get on the train. The Air Force has never had a problem getting
pilots, just keeping them in. If you truly love to fly, then there are
several fields to go into, such as:

	Flight Engineer
	Navigator
	Radar Navigator
	Courier (you heard me)
	Electronic warfare Ops
	
True, all these won't let you decide where the plane will go, but in
truth, the pilot of a C 5 doesn't get to do much joyriding anyway.
Personally I was in Avionics, so spent most of my time on the ground.
But the airtime I got, I loved. And I wouldn't have traded jobs for
anyone.  Now trading how much I worked... that was something else...
Ground crews never get a decent sleep.

allen