Thank you for your service to our country! The apache is one cool bird! Be prepared to get a lot of negative responses! I'd avoid MAPD at all costs! (sorry bud, coudln't resist the exclamation point thing!) You'll spend twice as much as you would through a traditional flight school, and you'll be stuck in the right seat of a low-paying airline for quite a while because you won't have the requirements to move to the left seat. Going the traditional route may take a little longer, but you'll be in less debt and from about 250 hours or so on up, you'll be getting paid and working with people that are doing the same thing you're doing (NETWORKING!!) Go to MAPD, and you're trying to pay back a huge amount in high-intrest loans on a salary that at the end of the day isn't even a living wage if you consider all the time you're not getting paid while in uniform. There are a bunch of people in the industry that don't have much respect for this type of "pay for training" where you essential buy a job. Also, be wary of any flight school that charges you more for using your GI Bill bennefits. I know of a few that do this. I wouldn't go there. You earned that right to use those funds, and shouldn't be taken advantage of as a result.

There have been a couple heated threads on this very topic. I'd look for those. Also, check out the flight traning fourm. There are probably 200,000 threads (highly exaggerated, but it seems like that) threads that ask the same questions you're asking.