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Welcome to my website about my journey to become a fighter pilot in the greatest air force in the world: The United States Air Force. Throughout my 5 year career in the air force, I have learned a few things that I wish I had known before pursuing a career in it:
- I love my job, and I'm not sure what I will do with my life when they make me stop flying every day. I may go crazy because being in the air is like a drug. Not many things in this world would I rather be doing than flying.
- Being a pilot is not all flying. There is a lot of work outside of the cockpit that we are tasked with, as officers, that we don't like to do (this is generally referred to as queep).
- Pilots generally work between 10 and 14 hours per day. If the weather is too bad to fly, there is always some queep that needs to be attended to.
- The Air National Guard is the best deal in the air force because you can have a regular job anywhere in the country, and the guard will pay for you to commute to your unit for your flying missions and active duty time.
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