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For the dude asking about being a pilot (or anyone interested), you can either leave law school and become a pilot or finish and become a pilot. A female marine in my class finished law school then switched over to flight school. You are already qualified on paper at least to become an officer just by having your college degree, you would have to go through the recruitment process by contacting an officer recruiter, taking the written test, go to MEPS (medical tests, vision (20/35 correctable to 20/20), and anthropomorphic measurements). You would then submit your package to a board, once accepted you would go to OCS (officer candidate school, 12 weeks up in Newport, RI), receive your commission as a naval officer, and report to Pensacola, FL for API (aviation pre-flight indoctrination, 6 week course in aero, engines, weather, nav, flight rules, and survival).
After API you would go to Primary flight training in either Milton, FL (usually the married people stay in FL) or Corpus Christi, TX. Primary is about 6-9 months of flying the Texan T-6B. You get graded on every flight and test and get ranked in your class. You then select your advanced platform (you put down what you want, but ultimately its needs of the Navy). Advanced tailhook (jets and E2/C2) is in Kingsville, TX or Meridian, MS, Advanced maritime (P-8) is in Corpus Christi, TX, and Advanced helos is in Milton, FL.
Advanced is another 6-9 months worth of sims, test, and flights, but at the end you earn your wings and go to the fleet. Overall, there’s plenty of downtime and hurry up and wait. I’m winging this Friday and it took 2 years almost to the day from checking in to NAS Pensacola for API.
Other random things: if you’ve never flown, the Navy will pay for you to get about 13 hours in a cessna before you start API at a civilian flight school
It took about 10 months from when I graduated undergrad to actually getting to OCS
Sorry for the way too long post, finished the syllabus a week ago and went from having no time to having all the time.
If anyone has any other questions about getting into the Navy or Navy flight school in general feel free to ask
Great breakdown. Aviation Marine here, Pensacola was fun for the three months I was there.
Thanks man, where are you in the pipeline?
Not a pilot, as I was enlisted. But worked with a ton on the flight line. Ordnance for F/A-18.
Spot on. The main thing you gotta ask yourself is, “Would I be ok with being in the Navy/Air Force/Marines, and not being a pilot?” If the answer is no, you probably shouldn’t waste your time, the needs of the service will always come first and there’s a lot to derail you that’s way outside your control. Would you turn down an OCS spot if the recruiter only had SWO as an option? You’re unlikely to get another offer if you turn the first down. Your boy here did the whole pilot pipeline, and was a pretty good stick if I do say so, but only 2 people in my class winged. Navy didn’t need pilots at that time, it sucked ass but c’ste la vie. Now I do intel and it ain’t a bad gig.
Point is, wether you wanna fly jets, drive subs, or be a fuckin blowjob tester at the embassy in Rome, you gotta be ready to be an officer first. If you’re interested, I highly encourage you to go for it. At least you’ll never wonder what would have happened when you’re an old man on your death bead.
Second the political recommendation for law school guy. A former fighter pilot with a law degree is political party and campaign manager’s dream candidate.
For the guy asking about trying to be a pilot before or after finishing law school, If you already have a law degree when you join your recruiters are probably going to try to push you down the JAG route (go in as an O-3 or higher, 5 weeks of training, go straight into practicing law in the military). On the other side, if you decide you want to start the process now, and you meet the standards, there is a very high chance you’ll be selected for pilot training. The Air Force is short thousands of pilots at the moment, so they’re taking pretty much everyone who meets standards. Keep in mind that it can take over a year just to get to OTS. OTS for line officers is 8 weeks. Then tack on the months of training to get to your first unit (2 weeks IFT, 54 weeks UPT, 3 weeks SERE training, then up to a year on your specific air frame), your’re looking at 2-3 years of training before you’re a fully mission qualified pilot, and that’s with no delays.Obviously its a big decision that you should put a lot of thought into, hope this info helps.
Madison – Energous (WATT) is trying to get their product to market that emits wireless electricity in a given space using low frequency radio waves from semiconductors. Almost like WiFi except it charges devices with batteries.
Yeah it sounds cool but it’s just not feasible. I work in RF and the insane levels of power output required, the huge losses caused by open air, etc prevent this from ever coming close to working in a meaningful way.
I knew I had heard something about that before. If they figure this out it’s going to be an absolute game changer
For sure, man. They got the FCC approval but during pre-prod testing, they had a hard time charging a device fully if there were obstacles in the way. Look for this to be huge in automobiles first