Originally Posted by gsu50
Why "pay the price", when you can go somewhere and learn people skills and actually interact with human beings? No, I did not go to a highly touted school of the learned, but I had fun....and I learned a few things here and there. Did I mention there was no "hazing" or being locked on campus for the first year? Oh wait, that's right, there was beer too.
Most importantly I am in the same position as all those "ring knockers" out there too, flying. By the way, ROTC is just as good an avenue to pilot training than the Academy. In fact, your chances over the past 3 to 4 years have actually been better of getting a pilot slot from ROTC than the Academy. It's true.
I'm not trying to knock the service Academy's, they are good schools and you will work there! But if you don't want to subject yourself to asanine behavior on a daily basis, in effort to earning pilot wings.....there are other, much less painful avenues.
Better than just a good school. As an aside, they did teach us
ring knockers how to spell
a-s-i-n-i-n-e! And, as to the price...while there, they
paid us a monthly stipend, not to mention the full-ride scholarship. At least in my day, if you were qualified, you were guaranteed a UPT slot ahead of all others, i.e. OTS, ROTC. The post-career network for business and industry contacts isn't too shabby, either.
