Originally Posted by
crewdawg
Mustang - Grow some thicker skin, it will serve you well in your career. While I think calling ahead to UPT instructors, to put a bullseye on someone is lame, Grumble has a point about being an E-thug! Also, remember that since you will be a student...IP's can dish it out but can't take it back, at least, not from you. As a buddy of mine can attest, they WILL get their panties in a wad if you try...which is never good for you, the student.
Be sure that your squadron gets you orders to Corpus for phase III, that way you only have to suffer through the bs up tightness of AF pilot training for 6 months. Better yet, see if they will send you to Whiting for Phase I and II. The beach and only showing up for academics, sims and flying (ie...not showing up 12 hours a day, everyday) would be well worth the extra time it takes to get through your training.
Goodluck!
Thanks for the advice. I heard that Christi was a nice area and am looking forward to going there. From what I understand I will have to go through a few other bases first before I arrive there. I was not aware Whiting was an option for UPT.
I dont think I will be trying to **** off any of the TI's. Im just pretty much going to take the Forest Gump approach and do everything they tell me, when they tell me. If its wrong I'll do it over again. I expect everything to be wrong during phase I at AMS. I know that in the end I will be a 2nd LT and regardless if they are below me in rank or not i will still respect them the same for turning me into a better soldier than I was before I came.
Im going to be taking the same approach with the IP's at UPT. I have dealt with some A-hole flight instructors through my civilian flight training and hopefully that experience will help some.