Originally Posted by
LAfrequentflyer
The young man needs to consider what will happen if he's part of the 75% or more that will fail out of SEAL training. What then?
If I was interested in special forces I'd look to the AF. If you don't make it your have plenty of options and your QOL will be better than the other services.
I've lived and worked on bases run by our sister services. I'd take the AF any day of the week...
-LAFF
Thanks LAFF. When I read your first post it sounded like one of those "My branch is the best the rest suck" posts. You're right, he does need to consider the likelihood of washing out of training and decide which branch he would want to be in if he were in a non special operations position.
I would also like to live on an AF base as opposed to most other military bases (A few exceptions but generally the AF's are quite a step above the rest) but for the bases and QOL weren't reason enough to dissuade me from joining another branch.