[Centurion2000]

Damn, I would have just enlisted if I could have been a helicopter pilot.

You needed 60 hours of college to get into the warrant program.

[silentreignofheroes]

You needed 60 hours of college to get into the warrant program.
Not always,,I was offered the School(was a Spec 5),turned it down,,dumbest thing I ever did,,this was in '77,still can't think of anything dumber,,but the packet was ready,kind of want to think it was an honor to be selected..

[Fishrrman]

Rodney King wrote:
Damn, I would have just enlisted if I could have been a helicopter pilot

And Centurion2000 replied
You needed 60 hours of college to get into the warrant program

Hmmm... I was drafted in June of 1970. Three weeks into basic training (after we'd been tested, etc.), I was sent to an orientation/recruitment for warrant officer flight training (helicopters). I had NO college at the time, just a high school graduate, but that didn't seem to matter.

They said after training (about a year), I'd have to re-up for a minimum of two years. I would have had at least three years' in at the minimum.

I turned them down. A draftee in his third week of basic training is NOT thinking of extending his enlistment.

Although, with years gone by in hindsight, sometimes I wish I'd taken them up on it....

- John