{"id":2657,"date":"2009-12-17T00:30:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T08:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2009-12-16T22:48:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T06:48:37","slug":"high-school-to-flight-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/17\/high-school-to-flight-school\/","title":{"rendered":"High School to Flight School"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first response to “How do I become a fighter pilot?<\/a>” in the US military is always the same:\u00a0 get a bachelor’s degree.\u00a0 Both the Air Force and Navy require\u00a0their pilots to be commissioned officers; in order to be an officer, candidates must have\u00a0college degrees (though it matters little which one they have<\/a>).<\/p>\n

By contrast, the Army has a program that can take applicants directly from “high school to flight school<\/a>.”\u00a0 Many Army helicopter pilots are Warrant Officers, which technically fall between enlisted personnel and commissioned officers.\u00a0 According to the Army<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Warrant Officers are technical and tactical leaders who specialize, throughout an entire career, in a specific technical area.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Basically speaking, Warrant Officers are “hired” by the Army to do one specific job for their entire career.\u00a0 It is unlikely that WOs will ever command a unit or “broaden” their career beyond their technical specialty.\u00a0\u00a0A Warrant Officer will never be\u00a0a service Chief of Staff (though former WOs, who subsequently become commissioned officers, could).\u00a0 Warrant Officers, even of the highest rate, are technically still outranked by 2nd Lieutenants (though any Lieutenant who tries to pull rank on a crusty old Chief Warrant does so at his own peril).<\/p>\n

Many of the physical and medical requirements for being a Warrant Officer are the same as becoming an officer, but Warrant Officers do not require\u00a0college degrees.\u00a0 In fact, not counting the intervening military training courses, one can literally go from “high school to flight school” by becoming a Warrant Officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first response to “How do I become a fighter pilot?” in the US military is always the same:\u00a0 get a bachelor’s degree.\u00a0 Both the Air Force and Navy require\u00a0their pilots to be commissioned officers; in order to be an officer, candidates must have\u00a0college degrees (though it matters little which one they have). By contrast, the Army has a program […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[88,110,2,32],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-army","tag-helicopter","tag-military","tag-pilot-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}