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To: Ken Adams who wrote (170385)	11/29/2008 1:27:18 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

I'm not sure why most of the services that train pilots require them to be college grads. Is there anything you learn in college that is useful in flying a plane???? My Dad never wore glasses a day in his life, but when they disbanded the glider program he was enrolled in they gave the Marines an opportunity to stay in aviation. Those with a high school diploma went to pilot school and those without went to navigator school. He went to navigator school and served as navigator bombardier on a Mitchell, what the Corps called the PBJ. Each time he changed specialties they busted him back to corporal and he had to work his way back up to sergeant again. He flew as a staff sergeant. My father in law was a pilot on a B-17 as a sergeant, later as non-com flight officer. A kid who went to our church when I was a youngster flew helicopters in Nam as a Warrant Officer. He did not survive. His father is still alive, having survived the Raid on Tokyo in a B-25 MItchell as a gunner. His plane was featured in the movie Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.