You needed a degree for Air Force pilot training.
What is so technical about it that it requires a degree? Do they teach “piloting” degrees? Answer...Hell No!
An officer and a non-com have the equal ability to fly military aircraft if either has a highly rational and analytical mind. Prior education means nothing.
So, back to the question: The answer is that the officer (by virtue that he had a degree of any kind) cleared the #1 requirement to be selected for OTC. Nothing else mattered except that piece of paper. The common non-com did not have that wonderful piece of paper so he/she had no chance even though they may have run circles around the selected
one in the way of intellect.
so he/she had no chance even though they may have run circles around the selected one in the way of intellect.
True in many professions requiring a degree, and the wise and knowledgable freely admit the obvious. Lots of self made men in many fields of endeavor.
To include doctors of medicine. However, when discovered, those without the paperwork are usually prosecuted despite as much success as their degreed and papered competition.