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I am former air force and about to complete my degree soon. I've been looking into the possibility of WOFT but I have a few questions if someone is able to answer.
1. How is the quality of life? Do you live on base or off base?
2. How is family life, with a wife and kid, do you get to spend a lot of time home?
3. How is the current ops tempo? Frequent deployments?
4. When you are not flying, is it enjoyable?
5. Do you plan on retiring or getting out?
6. In relation to the above, are there any transferable skills to use once you are out for a civilian career? (other than flying)
7. What time are you released during the work week? (obviously this will vary, but on avg)
8. Are you required to do PT with your unit or are you allowed to PT on your own time?
9. What are your living conditions like when deployed? Do you fly often?
10. This is more of a personal question, but would you recommend this program or to stay on the civilian side? This will vary, but I am just trying to get your overall opinion your total quality of life.
11. Have your peers generally re-enlisted or separated?
I am looking forward to continue my service and thankful for any and all answers. Thanks.
1. How is the quality of life? Do you live on base or off base?
2. How is family life, with a wife and kid, do you get to spend a lot of time home?
3. How is the current ops tempo? Frequent deployments?
4. When you are not flying, is it enjoyable?
5. Do you plan on retiring or getting out?
6. In relation to the above, are there any transferable skills to use once you are out for a civilian career? (other than flying)
7. What time are you released during the work week? (obviously this will vary, but on avg)
8. Are you required to do PT with your unit or are you allowed to PT on your own time?
9. What are your living conditions like when deployed? Do you fly often?
10. This is more of a personal question, but would you recommend this program or to stay on the civilian side? This will vary, but I am just trying to get your overall opinion your total quality of life.
11. Have your peers generally re-enlisted or separated?
I am looking forward to continue my service and thankful for any and all answers. Thanks.
Warrant Officers
Warrant Officer Candidate School (WOCS)
Aviation
Posted >1 y ago
Responses: 18
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1. How is the quality of life? Do you live on base or off base?
Its the Army so the quality of life is far below what the USAF has shown you
Officers get BAH so you would live off base
2. How is family life, with a wife and kid, do you get to spend a lot of time home?
No. 12 hour days, week ends, holidays, year long deployments, 30 day trainings to wonderful places like Ft. Irwin, Ft. Polk
3. How is the current ops tempo? Frequent deployments?
I retired 4 years ago, not sure of the current optempo
4. When you are not flying, is it enjoyable?
No. if you are not flying you are sitting in a class room getting EO training, sexual harassment training, human trafficking training, etc. flying will a part of your army life. All that other crap will be the majority of what you do. As a young aviator in a unit that does not deploy, you will be lucky to get 200 hours of flight time a year
5. Do you plan on retiring or getting out?
Already retired after 24+ years
6. In relation to the above, are there any transferable skills to use once you are out for a civilian career? (other than flying)
Plenty; safety, maintenance, dedication that most civilians lack,
7. What time are you released during the work week? (obviously this will vary, but on avg)
Depends. Many times I was the last guy in the company after a night of flying, just me and the crew chief left to close put away the aircraft and lock the doors just to come in 10 hours later and do it all over again. Other times you leave around 1:00ish if there is nothing going on
8. Are you required to do PT with your unit or are you allowed to PT on your own time?
Depends on the guy in charge.
9. What are your living conditions like when deployed? Do you fly often?
Sleeping in tents with dirt floors with 10 other guys, old Iraqi buildings with camel spiders the size of your hand. Trailers with or with out a room mate. flight time varies, iraq 2004 i logged more than 1000 hours of combat time in 12 months, Bosnia in 2000 around 250 hours imminent danger in 8 months. just depends on the when, where and airframe you fly
10. This is more of a personal question, but would you recommend this program or to stay on the civilian side? This will vary, but I am just trying to get your overall opinion your total quality of life.
Hell yes, best decision of my career
11. Have your peers generally re-enlisted or separated?
Most end up retiring at some point
Its the Army so the quality of life is far below what the USAF has shown you
Officers get BAH so you would live off base
2. How is family life, with a wife and kid, do you get to spend a lot of time home?
No. 12 hour days, week ends, holidays, year long deployments, 30 day trainings to wonderful places like Ft. Irwin, Ft. Polk
3. How is the current ops tempo? Frequent deployments?
I retired 4 years ago, not sure of the current optempo
4. When you are not flying, is it enjoyable?
No. if you are not flying you are sitting in a class room getting EO training, sexual harassment training, human trafficking training, etc. flying will a part of your army life. All that other crap will be the majority of what you do. As a young aviator in a unit that does not deploy, you will be lucky to get 200 hours of flight time a year
5. Do you plan on retiring or getting out?
Already retired after 24+ years
6. In relation to the above, are there any transferable skills to use once you are out for a civilian career? (other than flying)
Plenty; safety, maintenance, dedication that most civilians lack,
7. What time are you released during the work week? (obviously this will vary, but on avg)
Depends. Many times I was the last guy in the company after a night of flying, just me and the crew chief left to close put away the aircraft and lock the doors just to come in 10 hours later and do it all over again. Other times you leave around 1:00ish if there is nothing going on
8. Are you required to do PT with your unit or are you allowed to PT on your own time?
Depends on the guy in charge.
9. What are your living conditions like when deployed? Do you fly often?
Sleeping in tents with dirt floors with 10 other guys, old Iraqi buildings with camel spiders the size of your hand. Trailers with or with out a room mate. flight time varies, iraq 2004 i logged more than 1000 hours of combat time in 12 months, Bosnia in 2000 around 250 hours imminent danger in 8 months. just depends on the when, where and airframe you fly
10. This is more of a personal question, but would you recommend this program or to stay on the civilian side? This will vary, but I am just trying to get your overall opinion your total quality of life.
Hell yes, best decision of my career
11. Have your peers generally re-enlisted or separated?
Most end up retiring at some point
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