Difference between Air Force and Navy/ Marine Pilots

[kinnem]

@New@This About the same as getting a pilot slot out of any AROTC program..... whatever that is.

 

[raimius]

Army aviation tends to put their officers through about 1-2 flying tours, then makes them unit leadership more than flyers. The AF lets pilots actually fly for longer (on average). That's mostly due to warrants being the "technical experts" aka career flyers in the Army.

 

[fencersmother]

I have two sons who are ADAF pilots (heavies - chose them - loving it). One has been deployed or otherwise away from home more days than he has been at home since graduating almost six years ago. Germany, Qatar, Djibouti, and several locations in the US mainland. He bought a house a year after graduation and didn't sleep in it for almost a year, except one night.

The other guy, flying a different airframe with a different mission, has not been "deployed" but goes on frequent "missions" lasting days to almost two months, without definite timeframes.

Both are happy not to be in a submarine, onboard a ship, or on the ground (and when they land in bad places, sometimes they never leave their planes at all).

Essentially: their deployments and missions are usually of shorter duration than their rank-equals in other main branches of the military. But they are gone - a lot.

 

[ekb1398]

Very interesting and I am going to have DS read this.

Can somebody talk about Army pilots. The local USMA Field Force rep has repeatedly told DS that if he wants to fly he should go army. He says army has more pilots than any other branch. Any insight or elaboration on this?

By percentage of officers, highest number of pilots is actually the Coast Guard.