True true, dunno why, i totally forgot about helicopter pilots.

I actually had no idea how many pilots who had, just made sence the USAF has the most....

This was actually kinda difficult to locate. not completly up to date, but i dont see a 5000 pilot increase in the navy

The Air Force has 13,740 pilots, as of a 2005 census
Navy has 8,985 pilots as of a 2004 sensus
Below, i couldnt imagine the USMC has more pilots, they are the least populated. I dunno, army may take the win with helicopter pilots, but i cannot find any data on that. For now, looks like the USAF has the most.

Here is a lost of total number of service members per brance.
ARMY = 410,745
NAVY = 285,022
USMC= 126,475
USAF = 276,155

 

Not calling BS or nothing, but you got a link to support that?

Also, do you have to be a commissioned officer to fly a helicopter?
<just curious>

Besides, we all know that helicopter pilots are a dime a dozen, get some fighter pilots in the numbers that the USAF and NAVY have, then they can come play with the big boys.

LMAO!!! OHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Fact: USAF = #1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Hell yah i made it in. <laugh>

All the brances have different ways of doing bootcamp. in the USAF the enlisted usually hang out in the read with the gear and the beer while we send the officers out to fight. LOL.

The USAF enlisted group was never really created with the intention of fighting, the enlisted's entire reason for existance is for support of the air power.
Take the USAF Special forces for example, Combat Control.
They parachute down into a hostile air field, kill everything in sight and set up a tactical air traffic control center and start bringing in the planes and control the airstrip.
Everything is about the planes in the USAF. We have infantry, however they mostly act as police and guard the base. They do have deployments as infantry however.

So the idea of crawling through miles of mud with 80lbs of gear seems a bit rediculous when we will probably never do that. <laugh>

The USAF bootcamp is all about training the individual to pay attention to detail. Not so much as combat education.

They do have fun stuff like that if you want. In Misawa Japan i took a little over half a year of SCARS training, which is a hand to hand combat course. S.C.A.R.S. = Scientific Combat Aggression Responce System.

Man, that was some messed up stuff, all about killing and breaking limbs. it was fun, but after a while i got sick of going to work all bruised up, plus it did a number on my knees. Finally got out of it. Then again, the training is supposed to keep you alive in hostile territory, not as self defence for a bar room brawl. <laugh> Goodtimes.
That was a long time ago though, i think i quit that back in '97.

 

Hey.. remember that time yer fog lights stop working? you got on here all mad cause you couldnt figure out why? checked and rechecked the wiring?
then i told you to make sure the button was pressed for the fog lights? and you felt like a moron?
Yah. Attention to detail buddy. USAF might work for you!

Remember when you were all excited when you got yer stripe kit, and found that a task so simple, like putting on stripes, was too far out of yer capability to manage even though a drunk chimp could probably do it?
Yah. Attention to detail buddy. USAF might work for you!

Remember when you told us how you wet yer bed a couple weeks back?
yah that was just funny.

LMAO

Oh yah, and best yet, remember when you were screwin' around ran yer car off the road? and you drew that illistration so we could see what you were talking about?
You draw like a 3 year old child.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA



Anyways, i sleep fine at night. Thankyou.