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While few if any of you know me from Adam, I lived with Onyssius for the last two years, and he's a good guy. Just throwing my two cents in, for whatever they're worth.

Ignoring the wait time altogether, you should also realize that your son probably won't be able to do IFS at his top pick (like Milton or Mobile) since the way they've been deciding who goes to what IFS location is tending to be based on seniority. Marines have a year on most of us Navy folks...

Thanks for the link; I'll be sure to check this out. Specifically, I was referring to the actual "Aerial Attack Study" Col Boyd wrote when he was an instructor at Nellis AFB (i.e., neither "Destruction or Creation" or "Discourse on Winning and Losing"). The study is referred to consistantly...

I really enjoyed Col Boyd's bio as well, and I've been really curious about the Aerial Attack Study he wrote. I tried to request it from the Air University via my university library but, not surprisingly, had little luck. Does anyone know of a way I could get a copy of it, or is it under lock...

Did you have any flight time before you showed up at IFS? At first glance from the persective of someone with absolutely no flight time, that seems really fast. I'm also assuming you'd recommend the instructor you had--was there anyone else you thought was good, bad, indifferent, etc.?

I got talking to an Air Force 2nd Lt. at the grill outside Bldg 633 a few weeks back and we got talking about SCUBA quals and dive schools around here. He said Pensacola Dive Company was the way to go, with MBT as a close second. He's the only one I've heard talk about the first place, so I'm...