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    AFROTC Express Scholarship

    Thank you for the input on duty stations! Good luck to you!
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    AFROTC Express Scholarship

    Thank you and good luck to you and your kid at USAFA!
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    AFROTC Express Scholarship

    First assignment is back to school for a Masters at Purdue! That’s amazing!
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    AFROTC Express Scholarship

    Thank you for the input!
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    AFROTC Express Scholarship

    Hello to all! My DS threw me a curve ball a couple of weeks ago and declared he no longer wanted to pursue flying in the Air Force. He is looking at a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and being a Developmental Engineer in the Air Force. The commander at #1 & #2 college choice...
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    This Naval Academy Adventure is for Real!

    Carrier flight operations are truly something to be experienced up close and personal. I had a coworker who got surround sound installed a few years back. He said the first thing he watch was the original Top Gun. The next day he kept telling me “You just don’t know!“ I finally had to break it...
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    Introduction

    On my first deployment our aviation DET commander, a LCDR SH-2 aviator, told me to be at the mission briefing at 05:45. The aviation DET CPO informed me to be there, squared away and ready for the briefing no later than 05:40. I was told if I got there at 05:45 I would be late and dismissed from...
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    Candidate Activities Record Input

    Great advice on personal security and privacy issues. I was a victim of identity theft in the late 1990’s due to posted information by an employer. Our manager had five locations and he put the year vacation bids on a spreadsheet with the employee full name, drivers license number, SSN, and...
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    What more do I need

    Nothing in military aviation is guaranteed. Go until someone with authority tells you no. Hopefully that will not happen to you but unseen issues can pop up and take you off the aviation track. Have an idea of another career field if the aviation field is out of the picture. On the Navy side...
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    What to Wear to an Airshow at Your Base

    Capt. MJ gives great advice-as always. I worked an air show as an enlisted service member at NAS Jax back when the SH-60 was still relatively new. Unless you’re part of the “On Duty Crew” skip the flight suit. A polo shirt with squadron patch or airframe logo with khaki pants/shorts is...
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    Options to Commission if DOR from NROTC

    I’m going to reply with my experience from the enlisted side of the house. I went to trade school while in high school for diesel mechanics. I had always wanted to be in the Navy, long family line with service in WW2 & Korea. I went into delayed entry at MEPS eight months before my enlistment...
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    Encouragement and advice for new applicants

    Congratulations on be accepted to ERAU and the AFROTC scholarship! ERAU is at the top of my DS university list. As for the NROTC vs. AFROTC units at ERAU, the NROTC unit does max out, the AFROTC detachment does not, per our discussion and observations with both over the last 7 years. The ERAU...
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    Drug Use

    Very good Public Service Announcement on a proper disposal option.
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    Drug Use

    My wife is a pharmacist and I hear about this problem way too often. This issue goes deep and beyond what what we hear about in our everyday lives. A while back I ran into an old colleague at a baseball game and she rattled off five names from the time we worked together. All five gone from...
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    My Introduction

    Great looking resume! Keep up the good work and best of luck to you!
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