I go to school at BYU.Idaho, Look at what landed at the practice feild.

cool, but why were they there?

Little do them guys know you only hafe to be a Warrant Officer to fly helicopters for the Army, that means no collage what so ever.  You have a tec school that equals up to some collage credits but not alot, a Warrant Officer is a NCO (None Commissioned Officer) that means that he's just a glorified Sergeant.  Its a good deal if you really want to fly but hate school its about a 13 month flight school at Fort Rucker, Ala.  And a nother good deal out of being a Warrant Officer is that you only hafe to be 19 to be one, a regular Officer must be 21 years of age upon his/her commission into the armed forces.  Good deal if you want to fly helicopters!!!

I know how you feel, I tried to join the R.A.F., I am highly inteligent, good at A.C.M. theory and extremly fit. Wasn't accepted because of a 2% defficiency in my left eye.

i dont know how it works in america, but to fly helecoptors in the british army, you have to have 4 years service before you can fly the helos, no matter the rank.

As I understand it a Warrant Officer holds a Warrent from the Queen and a Commisioned Officer holds a Commision from the Queen.  No matter how highly qualified a Warrent Officer is he/she still ranks below the most junior commisioned rank.  It would be unwise for the new 2nd Lt. to disregard the "advice" of a WO2 with 40 years service behind him.

To illustrate my point I'll bore you all with a long and pointless annecdote.

My father was a merchant seaman in the 50's and 60's.  He was an engineer mostly in coasting steamers.  One of his captains was an ex Royal Navy Officer who between the wars was a Sub Lieutenant.  One evening he held the middle Watch with the senior Coxn at the wheel to keep an eye on him.  Being 19 years old and by all accounts a complete prick he started giving the Bridge crew a hard time, pointless orders that they have to follow because he was the officer.  I'm sure that those of you that have been in the forces will have met men like this.  Anyway he noticed that the course that they were sailing led directly down the band of light cast on the sea by the moon.  He turned to the cox'n (who was old enough to be his Father at least and had been in the Navy for about 30 years) and ordered him to direct the ship (destroyer) down the light.  The cox'n did exactly that for the next 3 1/2 hours.  By the time that the subbie (my fathers Captain) was relieved by the 2nd Lt the ship was about 30 miles away from the position reported by the subbie and a good 20 degrees off course.

The subbie was given the dressing down of his life and nothing happened to the Cox'n, who despite his rank, years of service and experience, was simply following orders from a superior officer.

Incidentaly the Subbie in question went on to command a Corvette and lost his left arm somewhere in the Atlantic (careless I guess).  The above was the pep talk he gave all newly joined officers in his ship and was what my father told me when I told him I planned to apply for a commision when I was seventeen.

Will

Dude!!! We had one of those come to our school!

basically vision has to be correctable to 20/20, glasses or not

I think you'll find most Services want spot on vision when they take you on... Once you're in, they'll be happy to let you wear glasses, as they would have spent a wee bit of cash on your training (unless you vision really goes...). Most of the instructors I know wear glasses when flying...

Cheers

Charlie

My point entirely (two of the pilots I was referring to are former Harrier pilots still serving in the RAF)

Charlie