Originally Posted by
dcaldwe8
I just graduated college with a business degree with a 3.26 GPA. I was planning on attending a local flight school but with no loan options available I am considering the military. I would be greatly appreciative if anyone would provide answers to these questions.
1. In your opinion what is the best branch of military to have the best odds of becoming a fixed wing pilot?
2. What branch offers the best benefits to its pilots?
3. What are the chances of me actually becoming a pilot? What percentage of people wanting to be pilots actually become pilots? How competitive?
4. What's the overall quality of life as far as spending time with family?
Here are a couple of websites for you to use for your research.
OCS Foundation Portal
FlyingSquadron.com - Military Aviation Portal & Forums
I can tell you about the last rated board that was held for the Air Force. There were 461 applicants of which 323 applied for pilot. Only 35 were accepted for pilot. Sixty-six were accepted for CSO and 16 were accepted for ABM making the grand total of 117 accepted for the rated board (
Air Force announces OTS selection board 10OT01 results).
If you are interested in the Air Force you can get a lot of great information from airforceots.com. I don't know anything about the other branches, sorry. However, on the airforceots.com website you will see the links to the forums for the Army, Coast Guard, Marines, and Navy.
Best of Luck,
Tiger