Originally Posted by
Zoomies12
Wow, great post, thanks. I agree that the trend seems to be away from fighters at this point. I came in thinking thats what I wanted but the more I think about it, heavies seem like a better deal.
The best path here is to not get your heart set on anything except earning your wings.
There is absolutely no way for you to control which community you go to -- some of it is skill, but there is also an immense element of luck and timing to both track selects and assignments at UPT.
The paradigms for different airframes and different communities WILL change over the course of your career. There's no sense getting your heart set on one which,
1) You may not be able to choose even if you're the top grad in your class, and
2) which might have a totally different deployment/operations tempo by the time you get there...and which will probably change during the time you're in it.
So, it's all fine to explore the different communities and aircraft, and get an idea as to what life is like in them (there are TONS of threads about this all ready over at airforceots.com and baseops.net), but don't use that information to get your heart set on any one of them.