[quote=Sputnik;459059]
Originally Posted by
Riddler
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I for one have never had a problem with the choice assignments going to Altus guys, I really think they've earned the right to go front of the line. As a former AETC guy I get the "it's far better as an IP than student" but it's just not somewhere I want to live. I actually vol'ed to go there (I was five months into deployment at the time) then changed my mind.
For me, two drawbacks
- Really didn't want to live there
- I really like operational flying.
I would have been just fine, and enjoyed all the things you talked about, but I in no way whatsoever regret the decision to not go. Nor, more importantly, does my wife.
Still, maybe I'll end up there next, who knows.
Sputnik -
I'll take for granted that you were speaking to Riddler here and not me although the quote box makes it look like I said those things about Altus.
I might have lived in OK, but I haven't been to Altus more than a few times. There are too many Marines there though there are a few next door in Lawton learning how to pull the lanyard and mae big booms!
USMCFLYR