Don't tell anyone, but one of the main reasons I want a T-38C so badly is so that I can acquire the necessary PIC to have the option to rush the U-2 program. For some weird reason, I think I'd like flying the U-2. . . .
Go home tonight and find the smallest closet in your house. Put an uncomfortable chair inside facing a small color TV (Screen pattern - no cable) Don a SCUBA wet suit or snowmobile suit, place a goldfish bowl over your head then walk into the closet with a straw and jar of liver baby food. Sit for eight hours in the dark, watching the screen pattern, suck the liver through a straw and every three hours pee down your leg. If you enjoy it, apply for the program.

AFter three years I decided that High altitude pressure suit flying gives you braging rights but it's dam unforfortable.

Been there, done that, got the T-SHirt. That's me 1968.