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I was wandering if any of you know the requirements to be a USAF pilot.

I never graduated, but the guy I talked too said I had to get my GED and get awesome scores, join the ROTC and also do a superb job.

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I was wandering if any of you know the requirements to be a USAF pilot.

I never graduated, but the guy I talked too said I had to get my GED and get awesome scores, join the ROTC and also do a superb job.
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1. You must be in good overall health
2. Vision limitations:
a. Distant vision - corrected to 20/20 (uncorrected maximum is 20/70)
b. Near vision - uncorrected 20/20)
c. NO RK SURGERY
3. Height:
a. Minimum height is 64 inches (5'4")
b. Maximum height is 77 inches (6'5")
c. Sitting height must be between 33-40 inches from the base of the spine
4. AGE: You must start pilot training before you are 30 years old
5. You must posses a 4 year college degree
6. All applicants must take an Air Force Officer Qualifying Tests (AFOQT) and BAT tests.
7. Flying experience is a plus, but NOT required
8. Must be a U.S. Citizen, mentally and morally sound, and capable of obtaining a TOP SECRET security clearance.

Good luck.



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By the way, if you ever want to fly the A-10, get rid of that 'BUFFB52' screen name. BUFF boys playing CAS is like porking your sister, it feels good but it's just not right.



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Dude thats really really funny.

By this time tomorrow I shall have gained either a pearage or Westminster Abbey........Nelson

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LOL!!!!!

You got a colorful way with words Ltee.


"Trample the wounded, hurdle the dead."

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By the way, if you ever want to fly the A-10, get rid of that 'BUFFB52' screen name. BUFF boys playing CAS is like porking your sister, it feels good but it's just not right.

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Like it or not, better get used to them being around more and more these days. Everyone's being invited to the CAS party as of late.

What if your sister is really hot though? What if she's your half sister? What if she's someone elses sister? What if she's your brothers sister?

"Retreat, hell! We just got here!"-Captain Lloyd Williams, 2nd Marine Division, Belleau Wood, France, WWI

We'll leave that up to your personal judgement BR.

"Trample the wounded, hurdle the dead."

BR, LOL!

I know what hormones can do to a man.......

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-Homer, The Simpsons (NOT!!!)

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One banjo or two? Would they be dueling banjoes? Maybe it's bazooki's. Gotta love them hormone's though. Only thing I can't understand is why they decided to get started in Utah of all places...

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YGBSM !

Utah is actually loaded with some HOT women.

I was stunned, to be honest.

"Trample the wounded, hurdle the dead."

AIR2MUD, I was told that 90% of the pilot slots got to the academy punks; is that true?

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I was told that 90% of the pilot slots got to the academy punks; is that true?
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Well, that's not a very nice way to put it. And only 50% of the pilots in my class were "punks."

Then the rest had to be ROTC, cause noone from OTS has a chance, so I've heard.
And then again that could just be your class-I wonder if it speaks accurately for the whole student pilot class?

Here's my class:

20 USAFA
2 Guard/Reserve
10 ROTC
3 OTS

3 OTS? No Kidding!!??
Hmmm.
Maybe I again should seek this out!!??

I was OTS. Graduated #68/72. Put in entirely too much effort.

To add to this: OTS is only lower than the Academy and ROTC because it's the most flexible of the commissioning sources. Meaning that, according to USAF needs at the time, they can open or close the "valve" of officers as necessary much easier than they can with the other sources. In the early 90s, almost no one was coming out of OTS, in the late 90s and early 00s, there's been some of the largest classes seen to date.

sorry if im about to offend anyone but OTS officers make the best officers.....they have better leadership skills and real life military life expierences, they know what its like to be a private or airman and have to mop up shit and take orders theyve been at the bottom of the food chain. i never respected those young 20 year old butter bars trying to lead a platoon up a mountain side to take out sum rag heads and have them freaking out and not knowing what to do.... just my .02cents.

And my .02: Yes, the OTS guy in my class that was prior does a good job, but the other, who was NOT prior is a little b* with absolutely no concept of duty, teamwork, or service before self. Among the USAFA priors that I knew, they were by and large a big step ahead of the rest of us, and the ROTc prior guy in my class now is SH. To sum, it's the prior service, not the comissioning source.

As an aside, I thought most, if not all, OTS guys knew what their AFPc was going to be before they even entered? That's the impression I got.

Do we really want to open this can?

Not really. Let's not. But I DO think that the guys who were prior enlisted had a leg up on the rest of us yahoos straight out of high school. If nothing else, they were usually a couple years older and more mature than the rest of us. ANY commissioning source will produce what you put into it. There is no universal "better" commissioning source.

TinyGiant- the voice of reason.

Personally, i thought 75% of officers were idiots, but i admit to being biased. There are a lot of idiots with command authority though.

I worked for a few of them.

"Trample the wounded, hurdle the dead."