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not join and figure it out.  Oh, sorry, so few qualify.

Oh wow you are so elite. Must be amazing being so physically fit you can qualify to serve in the army. LOL. Work out for two weeks and you're in. Putz. 

a recruiter, ur definitely in.

have no clue whatsoever.  Would love to watch you endure a deployment.

You built flight time flying instructing in Robbies, flying soccer moms around the Grand Canyon and by lying about flight time. We built ours by flying door kickers at 3am to sh*t LZs in places that youve only dreamed about in Call of Duty. We built ours by coming back from missions winchester after responding to a TIC night after night.  We are not the same.

I do respect the dudes that come up through the civvie side.  Long and expensive road.  That being said, hysterical WRT the amount of sh*t talking.  I really like their use of the push-to-think button when trying to talk especially in controlled airspace as well as having to reference the RFM for vajayjay leak limits when the winds kick up.

Rob-tards for a reason.  Regardless, pretty fitting.

our choices.  Live with them.  No need to be a jackass.  

The funny thing is I've seen military pilots struggle in the civilian flying but I've also seen civilian pilots struggle in civilian flying. My bet is some military pilots also struggled with military flying. See where I'm going with this?

Nothing worse that a military pilot thinking they are better than everyone. Also nothing worse than a civilian pilot thinking they are better than everyone. No matter your background, there is alwa someone who's better. Be humble, willing to learn, expand your skill etc. Then you have the most succes.

I am not eligible for military service. I knew that years ago but went to the Coast Guard recruiter anyway just so I could say I tried.

I find this whole kind of thing smacks of severe insecurity, on both sides frankly.  I've got 22 yrs flying in the military and almost as much in the civilian world.  The simple truth is there are just as many lousy pilots and just as many outstanding pilots on both sides of the "training" coin.

That said, two things have stuck with me during my civilian career.  One was the civilian trained pilot who tried telling me military trained pilots were "more dangerous" than he and his fellow civilian trained pilots.  When I tried to explain to him it wasn't that we were more "dangerous," but that we were exposed to a much more varied envelope of flying experiences, and thus had a bigger comfort margin than he probably did, he was having none of it.  Try as I might, I just couldn't get him to see there might be truth in that statement.  

The other was the pilot who needed to tell me that he was a better pilot than me because he was Robinson "rated" (I swear to God, that was his word!) and I wasn't.  I tried to explain to him that there was no such thing as a Robinson "rating," but there was an SFAR (73) that regulated what could and could NOT be done while training and flying an R-22 or R-44.  And, that didn't constitue a "rating" just special rules due to the design of that model of aircraft.  I pointed out that no other helicopter design or model had a special section of the FARs to regulate what could or could not be done with them; and when the Army could have chosen to go with Robinsons for their IERW training wwhen they decided to retire the TH-67s but went with a much more expensive helicopter, he just got angry.  

I don't know what to really make of either guy, except to think there was some insecurity in there somewhere.

Yeah, sure.  That explains why Navy Seals fly ARMY!!!

why both navy and coast guard pilots flying for Cougar say things like "well, there's another DFC".  We're supposed to be color blind these days!