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Thank you Pima! Just one more question to clarify, please. When you say "if selected for pilot they will send you....for a....physical," are cadets selected preliminarily based on their original DoDMERB exam, or are they selected based on aptitude tests, (without regard to physical...

Are the qualifying vision requirements for pilots for Air Force (USAFA) different from AFROTC? Was wondering if these websites need updating or if so, where to find the current standards (I have searched unsuccessfully.) From AirForce.com: "Pilots must have normal color vision, near visual...

Thank you. I appreciate your suggestion, but since the table was mentioned in a recent prior post (by @FMHS-79) I thought it would be more relevant for this thread. Also, I'm not sure of what the title of the table is exactly. Anybody?

Would it be possible for someone to post a screenshot of the reference table which shows vision, height, and hearing values required for the potential pilot or navigator category? I have searched the USAFA website and beyond and can't seem to find it. TIA

I have unsuccessfully tried to find this information online. In the senario that a cadet graduates USAFA and goes on to do only the minimum required service commitment (5 years, my understanding), are there any benefits (other than the obvious intangibles) that they would have earned or are...

Thank you to everyone for your good wishes and great advice! In keeping with my "know nothing" status, I am posting a new question, please weigh in.

After a very definitive TWE in April, who would have thought an appointment would happen? So what to do about the university commitment, deposit, housing deposit and non- refundable airfare for summer plans and tickets for events bought because we thought the "fat lady" had sung? Ouch! That's a...

"Hazing serves a purpose. Of course it all needs to be legal and done safely. It’s a rite of passage." Alaskan, if your comments here are indicative of current USAFA cadet attitudes, then the Academy has an overall culture problem.

Not sure why anyone would compare the student body of a character and leadership based military academy to that of other civilian colleges (where formal character development is mostly non-existent). The correct comparison should only be USAFA's student body to its own standard, in which case...

Agreed. Yet, it's hard to understand how an organization that spends so much time (based on their literature and social media) talking about character, leadership, ethics and respect for human dignity could still be wrestling with scandals on what seems to be some regularity. The irony is...

Hazing? Really?? This is still happening??? I hope that is not the case again here. Pardon me for saying so, but IMHO the USAFA administrators need to quit the #NCLS2018 grandstanding and fix this $#!+ which goes on under their collective noses once and for all.

I can't imagine that admissions wouldn't want to see those grades. And yet, DS's hs sent his several times, but they do not show in the portal as being received. DS contacted them and was told it wasn't important. BTW, he was told the same thing about his inaccurate GPA.....hard to believe but...

My two cents: I liked the Lt. Gen's speech. However, his subsequent appearances on the national morning shows, smiling and patting himself on the back, made me cringe. I thought it was so inappropriate, an unnecessary airing of dirty laundry, and unfair to the (innocent) cadets who were then...

Thanks, I think this is what I was trying to understand.

Hello all, First post and as my user name indicates, I am totally new to the world of service academies and military colleges. So, I think I understand how ROTC works at a service academy, but correct me if I'm wrong - in basic terms: accepting an appointment to an academy means that while the...