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06-07-2008, 07:36 PM

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I like his profile.. Airplanes flown: allot of them.... lets see.. there's the Cessna 152, 172, 182,.. the Piper Warrior and the Cherokee. wait.. are they the same???

06-07-2008, 08:07 PM

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How do AF deployments compare to other branches of the military?

Dude, if you have to ask you probably need to stay civilian...

There are good deals and bad deals. Bottom line, they tell you to go and you go. You want the training, the flight suit, and the cool ride? There's no free lunch.

06-07-2008, 08:48 PM

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How do AF deployments compare to other branches of the military?

If you're talking flying deployments, most AF are 120 days vs 7-15 months for MC and Army. Of course you can always get tagged for a non-flying year or my personal favorite a year teaching Iraqi pilot training. If you really don't want to deploy, then stay out of the military.

That said, while it hugely varies based on what you fly, when you're at home you're training to go to war. If you never deploy you just spent your entire military career training for something you never got to do. Who wants to do that? (hopefully the guys with nukes, but you get my point).

06-07-2008, 09:14 PM

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Deploying can be one of the best and most rewarding parts of being in the military. You get to see and do things that most people never get to experience. I am currently deplyed (but not to the sandbox) and I am actually not looking forward to going back to home station except that I get to be with my wife. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q_WDX2Ilhc

06-07-2008, 09:16 PM

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Ive been seriously considering the AF here the last couple of weeks. The only thing stopping me is my girlfriend who I am serious with. Sounds like it is hard to beat though, would I rather build time making more money and flying better equipment, with the probability of govt retirement or build time flight instructing/ flying freight?

This requires a 'Dr Phil" intervention even though I don't really know what the heck he does except in 22 sec commercials...

If she is stopping you now, she will stop you later because she has limits on her love for you. You are talking a legitimate career choice. If you wanted to be a porn star or a politician, she has a fair cop. Since it isn't, it is going to clash when anything gets difficult and you will resent her like the devil. Do what you want to do, save a possible divorce, grief for both, because you do love her , she'll leave and you'll find another wonderful girl. I did.
Have USMC/USAF and a whole lotta Squid time. Good folks wherever you go. (Dumb@$$'s too, but that is for comedic relief

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Best of luck.

06-07-2008, 10:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Airsupport

there are several guys in the airforce that fly the fighter jets and after 10 years only have 2000-3000 tt.

Are you implying that this is a bad thing? A 2,000-hour fighter guy after 10 years is in pretty good shape. What's the problem?

06-07-2008, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by TBoneF15

The Kadena boys never deployed as much as anyone else because they already are in a hot spot. Why pull them off the line?

Of course, none of the Eagles are deploying now days.

Oh I get the forward deployed thing.....it is just from my experience listening to my friends from AFROTC who are still in the AD and a friend who was last doing the MH-60 PaveLow thing with the AF Reserves - their deployments were always 90 days (for example the OSW dets to Al Jaber); so I was making somewhat of a comparison to the different services deployment schedules.

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06-07-2008, 11:21 PM

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Are you implying that this is a bad thing? A 2,000-hour fighter guy after 10 years is in pretty good shape. What's the problem?

Especially now-a-days I'd say. There was another thread on the forum about AF waste and a few of the posts told stories of 'heavies' flying some missions and they said that they had flown 27 hours during that mission. I thought to myself - WOW! - a month's worth of good flying. It used to be that 25hrs/month was pretty average. It now seems that if you are not currently deployed the average is somewhere around 15-20 hrs.

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06-08-2008, 05:48 AM

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Are you implying that this is a bad thing? A 2,000-hour fighter guy after 10 years is in pretty good shape. What's the problem?

no. if you read my post in its entirity you would have seen that i was talking about the guys who get in so they can fly a lot only to learn that for every 1.5 hours of flying there is 5 hours of brief and lots of desk work. i know when i first started looking in i thought i would be flying everyday doing practice missions, etc etc. i quickly learned that flying the plane is the least of your duties. so i will repeat again if you are getting in the af just to fly, you wont be doing as much of it as you think,, except for the heavy guys.