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USMC Tailhook drops (Serious Answer?)
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I remember once in a bar in Enid overhearing a T-38 stud telling a group of guys about his low level going 5XX knots and all manner of "cool" jet stuff. I felt the need to tell the group about how I held over an NDB and got a barbeque sandwich on my hop that day. I think my story was cooler.
This thread just keeps giving! 
LFCFan
*Insert nerd wings here*
I do appreciate the comedic value of all three services with jets getting intertwined in one post, but respectfully it was not the point of my post to tell him how to select jets in any service. Just wanted to give him some pointers on how to do some homework here and elsewhere.
I know... it's just that I have to decide before next semester starts whether I should leave AFROTC. This summer is my only chance at getting into PLC since there is a freeze on the 10-week PLC and I'm a sophomore, so I have to decide now. That's why I posted this thread.
You know there is always OCC once you are college complete. I had tried to get into PLC but a medical waiver kept me from doing so. Went to OCC after college and now I have shiny gold under my name!
There is a guy at my local Air Guard unit that went through ENJJPT and now flies F-16s. He told me about the guard route. But the Air Guard is only 1 weekend per month sorta thing. No chance of getting deployed on a ship either.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I heard OCC is extremely competitive, I heard (from an ROTC recruiter) AF OTS has a extremely low acceptance rate (4% ish) and the figures are similar for OCS / OCC. Does this sound right?
Nothing beats a thread where a a rookie comes with the standard "yeah but" - and keeps going. And of course this leads to your, by now expected, "i cooked a hot pocket in my airplane", "jet guys are tools", "go the ANG" comments
Star Dust, it's ok if you want to fly jets, but here are approximately 1,643 things that have to happen between now and your T-45 FAM-1, worry about those. Stop posting to this thread. Sit down, shut up, read and listen. And stop saying "I know".... You don't.
You can also extend your college experience by a semester, giving yourself an extra summer. It's what I did, albeit unintentionally. Went to PLC Jrs after my 3rd year, PLC Srs after my 4th year, graduated in December, commissioned a few months after that. Even though PLC in general is much harder to get into than it has been historically (I wouldn't have gotten in this year with what I had in 2009) it's just something to consider.
Once again, the odds and percentages change all the time. Your odds are 0% if you never try. If you are constantly worrying about odds and basing whether or not you try on those odds, sorry the Marine Corps is not for you. Don't make me start talking about the Marines who fought in Chosin and whether they asked for odds before so many gave their lives.
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