{"id":42711,"date":"2018-01-26T00:15:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T03:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=42711"},"modified":"2018-01-26T02:13:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T05:13:37","slug":"air-force-offers-free-pilot-training-to-high-schoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/26\/air-force-offers-free-pilot-training-to-high-schoolers\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Offers Free Pilot Training to High Schoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force JROTC program is paying the way for 120 high school cadets to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1412392\/afjrotc-launches-flight-academy-program-to-address-aircrew-shortage\/\">receive a Private Pilot License<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beginning in the summer of 2018, select AFJROTC cadets who applied for a new Fight Academy scholarship will attend an accredited aviation program at one of six partnering universities to get a private pilot license.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The press release presents it as a means to address<!--more--> the pilot shortage &#8212; though these cadets won&#8217;t enter the active duty military as officers, much less pilots, for at least another four to five years (by which time, given the military&#8217;s history, the shortage could have become an overage).<\/p>\n<p>The program comes at no small cost, with a PPL program likely costing between $5,000 and $10,000 per cadet. Despite the outlay, the Air Force apparently requires no commitment from the cadets:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe understand not all of the cadets graduating from the Flight Academy will elect to take a military track, but that\u2019s OK as those young people electing to enter commercial aviation will have a positive impact on the overall national crisis,\u201d said Brig. Gen. Michael Koscheski, Air Force Aircrew Crisis Task Force director.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cool gig, if you can get it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Air Force JROTC program is paying the way for 120 high school cadets to receive a Private Pilot License: Beginning in the summer of 2018, select AFJROTC cadets who applied for a new Fight Academy scholarship will attend an accredited aviation program at one of six partnering universities to get a private pilot license. The press release presents [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[134,5285,1516,2,6502],"class_list":["post-42711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-air-force","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-jrotc","tag-military","tag-pilot-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42711","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=42711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}