>mfw NROTC
>mfw last eye exam before I can apply for aviation
>mfw eyes got just bad enough to be right behind the cutoff mark for what the Navy will allow surgery for
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
FUCK
So you have to wear glasses? Poor baby.
>>30391528
looks like you just have to kill yourself.
>>30391539
Are you retarded? Pilots have to have good eye sight, no glasses/contacts allowed
>Be AFROTC
>shit eyes
>Get an RPA slot over CSO.
Oh well.
>>30391539
No, I can't do Aviation now, or anytime in the future most likely. Basicaly I'm fucked because I spent too much time playing vidya and shitposting on a tibetan glass blowing enthusiast board. I can't even be the guy in the backseat because of the eye sight regulations. So now I'm going to consider EoD or Special Warfare because Surface Warfare/Submarines would be the death of me.
>>30391606
>Wanting to be a drone pilot
Sounds like a quick way to PTSD and misery desu famalam
Don't worry m8, lots of people have successful careers at Nuke officers. Sure you'll never get to fly a plane or have any fun, and you'll have to spend long hours triple checking paperwork for the lowest common denominator that made it through prototype because it's your ass on the line, and you'll never ever get to enjoy any visit to a foreign port for more than a night because you have to babysit a cold rock the next day, and you'll find yourself struggling for advancement in a field that perplexing can't hold junior officers, but for some reason can't get rid of the old ones filling up all the best billets, and even though they promise you solid bonuses you'll realize you're still roughly being paid the same amount as the officer who supervises the people who fill up the soda machines, and your chiefs will constantly treat you like a retard and there's nothing you can do about it because they can ruin you even faster than the junior enlisted fucking up, and the stress will eventually make you wonder why the fuck you joined the Navy at all when you could of just got a job at GE doing real engineering or something, and why the fuck do have to share a a state room with that idiot from OPs who literally stays up all night and sleeps in during the morning while your ass is the one on port and starboard watches because the newer officers are retarded and can't get qualified and jesus fucking christ why are you right below the flight deck doing a 150 catches every night when there's not even an operation and the state room never fucking makes your eggs right though all you really want are them scrambled with a little fucking cheese BUT THEY CAN'T EVEN DO THAT RIGHT AND THEY EXPECT YOU TO KEEP AN ARMY OF SOCIAL REJECTS FROM MELTING DOWN A REACTOR WHEN THE CONCEPT OF POINT-READ-OPERATE SEEMS TO FUCKING ELUDE SO MUCH THEY'RE CONSTANTLY FUCKING OPERATING THE WRONG VALVES OR NOT READING DANGER TAGS MEANING YOU HAVE TO WRITE TRAINING FOR 500 OF THE ASSHOLES FFFFFFFFFFFF
>>30391628
>being a Surface Warfare officer
>bad
???
>>30391638
Wasn't my choice, and though I got it over ABM so thank fucking Christ. And from what I understand from the guys I know, a lot of the shit morale comes from fighter -jocks stuck into shitty little boxes. And hey, the $$$ once I get out is a nice consolation prize.
And go luck Navy-anon, remember that it's all about perspective.
I know you're young and this seems like an utter catastrophe, but things really do tend to work out anon.Maybe there's another job in the Navy you'd be good at. Maintaining planes for example, or medical.
Life is all in how you play the cards you've been dealt.
>>30391606
Good. You don't want to be a CSO, they eat their own and it's a d̶e̶a̶d̶ dying career field anyway
>>30391729
>Eat their own
Hence why I would rather die than be an ABM, which from what I understand is even worse.
>>30391528
I'm a pilot with 20/20.
I thought the requirement was 'correctable' to 20/20?
Are you below the allowable limit? Am I understanding or am I missing something...?
>>30391888
NIce trips good call.
RPA is a good gig unless you're one of those people who commits to being miserable everywhere they go.
>Or are the "I'm only here because my eyes weren't good enough type"
Those guys can fuck right off
>>30391670
It's not bad, it's just not for me.
>>30391675
It's not the end of the world, I know that. I've wanted to be in the Military since I was 5 or 6 years old, I'll find something else I'll enjoy. EOD and Special Warfare are both very appealing to me, but it will be an extremely tough journey.
>>30391921
I'm near sighted. In the Navy, a prospective aviatior cannot have a prescription for nearsightedness that goes past a -1.50 diopter. Pretty sure the Air Force has the same, if not stricter requirements. Before this eye exam, I was at a -1.25 prescription, but after it I was bumped up to -1.75 in each eye. Maybe it used to be just correctable to 20/20? Because I swear to god when I was going over this information in highschool a few years ago, I thought that I had plenty of wiggle room in terms of how bad my eyes could get for aviation.
>>30392021
Right on, I'm still hoping to catch the tail end of commissioned RQ-4 pilots so I can get those deployments, but I'll be happy with whatever comes down the line.
>>30391673
Yea, I'm sure it's actually a pretty cushy job, goodluck with training! And thanks, I'm sure the Navy will work out.
>>30391653
Oh my
>>30392047
Nice dude.
Get excited, the culture is way better than it used to be.
4's have a pretty cushy lifestyle.
>Dat ND lyfe.
>>30391528
>NROTC
You already fucked up
>>30391628
Hey man just be glad you are still eligible to serve your country in some way shape or form. I'd kill to be able to join the military (prexisting condition)
>>30392068
Do we have any idea on how long it'll take to get enlisted flying the 4s? And how many potential RPA pilots get selected for them over the 9s/1s.
You know, just asking for a friend because the air force is bad at telling its contracted cadets what their future is going to look like.
That being said, my prescription is a -2.50, but I just realized the Navy Chart I'm reading isn't taking about prescriptions, at least I don't think it is. Does this possibly mean I'm not boned? Should probably go have a chat with the detachment commander.
>>30391528
>i can't be a welfare queen
wahhhhhhhhhh
>>30392131
Yeah talk to your cadre and exhaust every topic. If it's something you want you should fight for it anon.
>>30392092
Yea, I've been thinking about how much worse it could be. The fact that I still have the option to branch in a ton of other things is a blessing.
>>30392075
Before college I was in a constant battle between Army or Navy. Now that I'm down to choosing between EOD/Special Warfare, I kind of wish I had gone army just because I think that army does infantry shit better.
>>30392118
Uh well its really vague, and I don't feel like getting into it on /k/, nothing against you...it's just /k/
Most drops at URT are going 80-100% 1/9's.
>>30392145
>Getting paid to train and perform a service
>welfare
Okay
>>30392202
>service
topkek
>>30392240
Considering that the two choices I'm considering have a high chance of being deployed, I don't see how getting shot at or dealing with explosives is ez welfare moni ;^) but okay.
>>30391528
Just go for SWO or something.
I'm enlisted so I really couldn't care.
>not going to a senior military college
Too chop
>>30392335
>deployed
>getting shot at
come on now
>>30391564
Except they do allow glasses as long as your uncorrected vision is better than like 20/40
>>30392450
Considering that SEALs are one of the premier SOF units right now, and that Navy EoD conducts a lot of missions where they work with SoF personnel, I think there's a pretty high chance of some gun fights happening if I go that route. But, I could be wrong.
>>30392542
>NROTC
you're not going anywhere
>also using "premier" unironically
>>30392042
>>30391670
I spent my youth on the chon and playing video games all day and I still have 20/20 sucks to be you brah
but I don't want to do aviation, and I know ill get in since I have the scores for it, I'd rather do surface warfare btu I got rejected. I wish I could switch places with you.
>>30392583
>Premier
>first in importance, order, or position; leading
Would you say that the Navy Seals have not been the premier SOF force in the past few years considering their high pace operational tempo, media attention, and the fact that the Navy was running the CJSOTF?
>inb4 muh DEVGRU
I'm considering DEVGRU an extension of the SEALs in this instance.
>>30392597
>Can get an Aviation commission
>Rejected for a SW one
What?
>>30392892
i dunno, I had great astb scores, 3.5 gpa and stem degree but got turned down for SWO
aviation is taking in a lot of people too so I have a good shot of getting it.
>>30392880
>get btfo by a dozen sheepherders
>their most famous alumnus lost a defamation lawsuit to a professional wrestler
i do like how you cite media attention as a factor
>>30392923
>Aviation is taking a lot of people too
Great, so not only am I already disqual'd from Aviation, but I was disqual'd in a time where it would have been relatively easy to get an aviation commission.
>>30393047
Generally the current poster boy unit is probably going to be doing a lot of shit, common sense no?
>One bad mission means that this unit is total garbo! ;^)
Fuck off, dumbass.
>>30392537
Which is that OP's first post said.
Holy fuck how thick is your skull? You must be the same retard from the nuke thread who can't even comprehend basic conversation.
Autism over 9000 guaranteed.
>>30393915
>common sense
>military
try harder kid
>>30393915
yeah rip lol
You can't get PRK?
>>30391528
>Aviator
>Glorified artillery observer
Be a bubblehead or a SWO you dingbait.
>>30392880
>Would you say that the Navy Seals have not been the premier SOF force in the past few years considering their high pace operational tempo, media attention
The whole point of them being front and center is to DIVERT attention from better SOF teams.
>>30391653
>>30391528
I haven't had an eye exam in a while, but my eye sight is currently 20/70 uncorrected, am I in the safe zone or should I just kill myself?
>>30391653
So I guess I shouldn't do nupoc?
>>30391528
>not knowing how to cheat a fucking eye exam
you walk by it and remember the last 4 lines, then when you take the exam you sputter out like you can barely read them. ive been staring at computer screens my whole life and lo and behold i have "20/20 vision"
>>30392542
depends, theres two types of EOD in the navy. every SEAL mission brings an EOD personnel along with them because EOD not only knows how to disarm bombs they also know how to blow shit up. SF EOD learns more of the "blow shit up" instead of the "keep shit from blowing up" part. EOD is physically trained to keep up with SEALs and have to pass the same if not similar firefight quals. if you go special forces in EOD it's not a question of if you see combat its a question of where you'll see combat.
>>30396401
>le ebin 11b "delta is better" meme
navy SEALs perform the most stringent and difficult operations of any non-tier-1 special forces detachment, comparing DELTA to SEAL is like comparing SEAL to 11b. DELTA and ST6 are a more accurate comparison but even then they do different shit.
>>30398857
to further extrapolate on this its more difficult to become a special warfare EOD person than it is to become Navy SWCC
>>30396401
MARSOC is full of literal retards and Rangers aren't special forces.
>>30391653
Lol gottem
>>30396401
you obviously have very little knowledge about what you're talking about. SEAL team 6 is directly connected to the president of the united states. DELTA isn't. DELTA is connected to a general whos connected to the president.
>>30391528
that's what happens when you stare at computer screens all day anon.
>>30394010
Didn't even read his post, no need to be mad though. :^)
