Is the current max age for pilots still 27 (non-waiverable for non-priors? I hear the Navy really needs pilots,so why would they only authorize priors? I'm 27, and would love to try flying Navy. I guess I'm having a difficult time missing the opprotunity because I'm too old, and then reading about people four years older than me going to flight school because they were a mail clerk in the Coast Guard for a few years (no offense to mail clerks and the like, I'm just jealous.)Is there any hope? I'll try just about anything.
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How do you know it beats driving a ship?
--Steve Wilkins
--Steve Wilkins
There's a whole hellavu lot more to being a SWO than driving ships, that's for sure. Although for some reason, that's what we're know for. I have to admit though, before I came to the SWO community I used to think the very same thing. But now that I'm here on the dark side I have a whole new perspective. Take care.
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Speaking for all us prior "mail clerks" and our cousins: all the glass visibility maintenance specialists, petroluem depth indication monitors and vehicle wheel interior atmoshpere technitians, the whole purpose of giving an age waiver to a prior is that we generally could not go to school while we were serving. Granted, a lot of guys in my class came right off of boats and went to school while on active duty, getting their degrees in comparable times; 4-5 years. I don't know how they did it because I took 1 class in the Army after full days at the motor pool and it killed me.
Wah, f@Z$ing wah! Dave, it sounds like you're crying to me...what gives?
--Steve Wilkins
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Speaking for all us prior "mail clerks" and our cousins: all the glass visibility maintenance specialists, petroluem depth indication monitors and vehicle wheel interior atmoshpere technitians, the whole purpose of giving an age waiver to a prior is that we generally could not go to school while we were serving. Granted, a lot of guys in my class came right off of boats and went to school while on active duty, getting their degrees in comparable times; 4-5 years. I don't know how they did it because I took 1 class in the Army after full days at the motor pool and it killed me.
I just got out of the Army and for the first two years of my enlistment I was to tired to go to school after spending all day in the motorpool. Then I said to myself, If you want to fly? you need a degree. I went to school nights, weekends, lunch time,tea time and Distance Education and will finish my degree in a little over two years. What do you think about that? It's on how bad you want it, not what you do for a living.
Edited by - vic on 03/21/2002 16:59:04
Speaking for all us prior "mail clerks" and our cousins: all the glass visibility maintenance specialists, petroluem depth indication monitors and vehicle wheel interior atmoshpere technitians, the whole purpose of giving an age waiver to a prior is that we generally could not go to school while we were serving. Granted, a lot of guys in my class came right off of boats and went to school while on active duty, getting their degrees in comparable times; 4-5 years. I don't know how they did it because I took 1 class in the Army after full days at the motor pool and it killed me.
I just got out of the Army and for the first two years of my enlistment I was to tired to go to school after spending all day in the motorpool. Then I said to myself, If you want to fly? you need a degree. I went to school nights, weekends, lunch time,tea time and Distance Education and will finish my degree in a little over two years. What do you think about that? It's on how bad you want it, not what you do for a living.
Edited by - vic on 03/21/2002 16:59:04
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