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As with all of the questions about A/F training so far, go ahead and check out "Anybody been to Vance or Moody lately" which was active a few weeks ago or so. Should shed a lot of light on your questions about what it's like to train with the A/F. Navy bases are all in great places, not all of A/F are. A/F has tons of money, their facilities and aircraft are mostly really nice (unless you get some old dinosaur); Navy seems to be unless it's brand new, it's not so nice. A/F doesn't do the deployments the Navy does, but they also don't get to go on all the port stops like we do. They fly to their forward base and then fly back. Some A/F planes do stop in a lot of neat places though, particularly KC-10s. Air force helo missions are almost all combat SAR. Navy helo community is very different from that. Big planes in the Air Force (135s, 10s, 5s, 17s, 1s, 52s, 2s, etc) not really big planes in the Navy. All depends on what you want.