Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Super busy with school and everything...found this on internet

I don't want to go into the military of course - have thought about learning to fly - but, I was looking something up for a speech I'm giving in a class I'm taking, and I found Answerer 3 to be a very enthralling read for some reason...
hope you enjoy.


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What does it take to become a fighter jet pilot?

i kinda wanna become a fighter jet pilot for the navy but i dont even know where to start i only wanna fly i dont wanna do anything else so my main worry is me signing up with the navy or something and then not getting to fly so what all do i need?
Im just a sophomore in highschool so should i try for the airforce academy? or what im lost all i kno is i wanna fly
  • 9 months ago
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oh yea i forgot i have perfect 20/20 with no glasses im not color blind
and do i need a college degree like would that help me?

9 months ago

Answers (5)

  • Answerer 1

    you need to be a collage grad and spent 2 years
    studying all air subjects.if when you graduate
    with high marks talk to a navy recruiter and he
    will set you up for officers school.then only a
    few will be picked for flight school.if you pass
    that you go to school for jet training. if you wash
    out on just one school your a navy desk pilot.
    • 9 months ago

  • Answerer 2

    First off, you can't have ANY eye problems. You can't wear glasses, you have to have perfect vision. Go to the navy's website and sign up there. I think you have to be 17 or 18 though to sign up.
    • 9 months ago

  • Answerer 3

    Hello, YUP!

    OK: High School: 10th grade. Good place to start to get ready for either the Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs, CO. or the Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD.

    But, before we start: You must get content within yourself to realize that ONLY a very few out of the many who want to fly will make the grade. Meaning, every officer will NOT become a pilot. And, every pilot candidate in "undergraduate pilot school" will not pass the course. Many will be eliminated because they can not take the G Forces that a jet pilot must endure. Many will be eliminated because they can not pass all the academics of flying. Many will be eliminated because they just can't stop barfing in the cockpit and trainers!

    So, you must accept the possibility that you will not become a pilot and must accept some other military officer assignment for the 4 years you would "owe" the military for getting an engineering degree at the Academy for FREE on the tax payer's money. I understand that it costs over $1,000,000 to train a pilot. That is after the cost of the Academy college degree!

    OK. Yes, the military will ONLY accept commissioned officers to become pilots. Dismiss this crazy notion that people still have that a person can become an officer by enlisting first. Never happen - G.I. That's the stuff movies are made from. Yes, I know we "do" have a nice to read about program of one or two enlisted with about 8 years service who are E-5, E-6, or so with less than 12 years service who make it to the "Enlisted Commissioning Program." It looks good to the public. BUT... to qualify for the very, very few slots is a "miracle" waiting to happen.

    Back to college. If you can afford it - and it is not cheap - start now and pay to go to civilian private pilot school. Learn to fly and obtain your private pilot's license before attending either college or the military academy. Expensive? Yes, but you give up that new car at age 16, pizzas, and wasted allowances on other things.

    Next: YOU need to start to get ready to be nominated for the service Academy NOW. No time to wait. Grades in High School must be as perfect to being "A"s as possible. Get into some kind of extra curricula activity that shows "leadership." Everybody does NOT have to be a jock. Besides, being a jock takes away too much study time.

    Hope you are good in MATH and SCIENCE. Academies hit calculus PLUS and chemistry, physics, and more in sciences. You should KNOW what you will study in the Academy by going to the website.

    Your US Congressman/Congresswoman and US Senator needs to nominate you. Mom and Dad needs to contact them NOW to make it known that you wish to attend a service academy. Congress people and Senators "love" to have people from their district get selected for the Academy. It gives them political power to brag to the voters! Make them work for you.

    I will say this in comparison between being an Air Force pilot and a Navy pilot. I watch a lot of military channel and history channel on Cable. The Navy has to fly off aircraft carriers. It is maybe 10 fold more difficult to LAND on a rolling aircraft carrier than to land on a paved runway. Many Navy pilots will crash into the ship and either be wounded or killed. It happens. At least in the Air Force your risk of a bad landing is minimized. They can foam the runway for an emergency landing if need be. In the Navy when you are out of fuel you must land and can't go around again!

    Of course, I assume that your physical exam for flying will qualify you when you get regular exams by the Flight Surgeon.

    You need to learn the dynamics of flying now. Study it about 1 hour a day 7 days a week. No holidays. Get books. Buy them. Also, down load and print out stuff on flying from the Internet.

    You need to study for the SAT or ACT college exams. Invest the $20 buck for EACH book and buy them in the mall book store. Work them from cover to cover: both. A serious candidate does ALL and more than required. Don't listen to people who tell you otherwise. They don't want to fly as bad as YOU do.

    Now, if you do all this and MORE... maybe, just maybe, you will make it all the way. If not you can not blame yourself for not trying. But, if you don't try - you will always blame yourself for NOT TRYING when it is too late.

    OH... No girlfriends, no children... if you are going to a military academy. It will be 4 years of NO SEX. Oh, academy recruits go to Academy Basic Training in the Summer before the Freshman class starts. SO, as soon as you graduate High School you are off to the Academy for a hectic summer of basic training. Start to run 1 1/2 miles in about 10 - 12 minutes. Do 100 pushups. Do 50 sit-ups in a minute. Do up to 10 pull ups. Climb a rope 20 feet into the air to the top. Run the track around the football field everyday before going home.

    If you end up being a Navigator you must be happy with it. At least

    Source(s):

    Previous military experience of 27 years: 1961 - 1989
    • 9 months ago
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Because If You Are Bold and Accurate Enough, You Might Get Meaningful Feedback

And you only need one reason to write. Or dance. Or jump over a fence. Or tear down a stone wall with your bare hands one pebble at a time...

Sorry. Pk here, and kind of started with what should be excerpt from my poetry...something so wimpy about that word poetry...and so neccessarily something funny and odd about the term Slam Poetry. It's like SLAM! ~pohhh-uhh-tree

So clearly my brain is fried. I've never had a class like the one I'm in right now, a page of notes of which I posted before, where a little over halfway through the class I realized I'm more on a go-kart ride and less in a canoe. First time I ever had such semi-non-success and yet realized full well I'd be taking the class again next year and looking forward to the work involved in canoeing down the rapids slowly next time, or doing a furious set of paddling anyway.

On hearing of the Coffee Party now forming allegedly in opposition to the T Party (I say allegedly because I haven't really read anything about it - only heard blurbs, and we all now how informative blurbs can seem but not really be -) ... well, let me just say, I still endorse the PK Party and have considered changing the name (totally thought of another name today that started with P coincedentally, but absolutely can't seem to remember what it was or why it was such a great idea). But Here I part company and say calling it the COFFEE party to neatly fit with TEA party like RED fits with Blue and Elephant walks begrudgingly with Donkey, just seems too TRITE AND MARKETABLE AND MOST OF ALL IT
... it lets them set the tone of the debate and then we're taking our cues from them in some basic manner that leverages powerfully over time...
we're leaders of the new revolution
the children of the Hippie Legacy
they call us off-Planet, yet we are the Earth
they poison the sky and we show them how not to
they vox and charge and we let discourse be guided by reason
we can always win if we keep our framework and framing up to date, and current to the ever-faster changing needs of the people, and they'll do the same only more slowly.
We'll crucible out the facts while they blatantly make shit up.

So maybe the Coffee Party is awesome; the PK Party hasn't looked into it yet as far as I know. We'll see, and I'll definitely be looking that shit up on wikipedia and maybe huff post (even thought they always do sex and tiger woods off on the sidebar there and I just try to be fair about which news media sources I reject and why) and maybe read some conversation threads on websites and skim a "major" (corporate) media source. Good websites out there, but so god damn many, huh?

Oh, and I invented a new sentence symbol !? ?

!? ? as in ... Who ate my Nachos!? ? the subtext of which is ... Hey, who ate my Nachos [wtf! face] but also a serious question who was it, then a pause, then a brief transition into, ? ,oh wait, was it me who ate my Nachos? meek to pissed there at the end, depending on context.

So !? ? Why can't they make Ice Cream in space where it's cold!? ? ~maybe they have already...
and !? ? Glenn Beck!? ? ~ meh, he's an idiot [maybe the more worked up about idiot tv people I hardly ever see the more I play into their hands]

ok. I can't even say all what has been up and around for this long day... but I can tell I'm way more tired then when I usually write the end of a blogpost and say I'm really tired and that I could/should quit writing and sleep. But, I'm really not even kidding this time about how tired I am or how I totally could sleep and so really should quit writing, and go lay down and sleep, and because, like, I'm tired and could start imagining I'm the Kernal of an Abelian subgroup of a non-Abelian group, of Complex Crossed with Imaginary Numbers, and that, I'd gather would involve flying, and I like flying dreams, and dreams are pennies, and I'm too tired and crazy and brain fried to even know what the most important thing is that I should say last to sum up everything and zip the meaning into a cogent sachet of Philosophy beverage in a steaming mug, with Acai and Hibiscous which are dried and ready to bloom, like a non-Abelian subgroup with is the Kernel of an Abelian Factor Group.

i had to end that sentence before my nose got bloody, yeah?

whew, on with the show.

k:p
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Friday, February 26, 2010

Phillip 2020 the Megalomanian

So a long time ago, I posted on facebook, an update of my status I suppose, "do any of you smart and/or educated friends of mine have ever heard of a Graduate Program in the Philosophy of Mathematics?" I eventually found one, and it turned out to be online. For the purposes of this story, the school's name was Hogwarts, and it only smelled like musty books, the occasional incense, and the occasional waft from the friendly dungeons down below. Just for the record, I slacked off, had a great time, but somehow managed to get a degree and a respectable knowledge of the subject.
My second badge-degree was in Math History, where "my fields" were Ancient Egyptian Rope-stretching, Gnomic Communities, and the Goddess Ma'at, right hand woman of Ra (I ended up correcting the relationship she had with the counterpart imposed on the myth much later in the Kingdom), and of course how socio-genetic trends of the Egyptian Ancestors and the tribal realms surrounding the Upper and Lower Nile proved that wide cultural diversity has been a beneficial norm throughout pre-History.

I'm hoping that by the time I die that I will complete work on the Mathematics of Philosophy and attempt to codify the clarity the journey will have given me in The Greatest Cookbook Ever Written, by PK Bunker. Stone carvings of this text will be distributed throughout the ancient stone structures around the globe. When aliens one day examine the remains of our civilizations, they will see that they too should follow my advice. Other than that, it will be free online of course.

Shortly after my Bachelors was completed, I became somewhat known at the campus for two organizations I founded: the UAA World Debate Squad Boosters Association (good ol' ooh-uh-uh-Word-Sba) and the Cabin Fever Talks (feat. Professor Roast and Festive Val LeFunny). The professors who volunteer every year to be quizzed by students and forced to perform or profess that which will amaze us all (coincidentally informing and creating a tangible school spirit event, boosting attendance of School Union Sponsored Headliners) are great people, and they mostly don't mind the vaudeville. It was fun to see the Theater, Communications, and Culinary School come together, and that every other department could join in as well. I particularly enjoyed hearing a person speaking Russian argue with a person speaking Mandarin Chinese (not my favorite year otherwise though). It really has invigorated the learning community, loosened up the Honors kids, and the talks themselves have never disappointed: Psych. dept - the psychology of college transitions and transformations; Sociology dept - the ten best ways to save the world; the Economics dept. - seriously, how to get rich and not be stupid and overly-greedy about it; Physics - the nature of the Universe or the Northern Lights; Biology - how to do surgery on your dog if you are stranded and have to.

I myself am still teaching away, and I sincerely miss Alaska. With the Speaking Tour money this summer, I was able to buy a sleek new aircraft, so I guess we'll still be able to fly up to the People's Republic of Alaska and pick crowberries every year. We're almost out of the 2018 vintage Bunker-Lanziano sparkling Crowberry Mead, and it would be much cheaper to fly the berries down than to keep paying the shipping and duties from our wild berry brewery up in Moose Pass (taxes in Alaska have gotten outrageous since the agricultural boom up there). We'll still stop by the lodge there, check up on the middle managers of course, but I think the kids and their cousins and friends could use some more time in the outback even if they complain about the mosquitoes the whole time. The crew will have probably neglected to stock the two-year-prior stock of the firewood shed, but I kind of enjoy an excuse to get as much of that Alaskan air as I can before we come back to the Lower 46, so a choppin' I'll probably go. Hopefully our good friends are managing the farm back home and none of the critters are causing them trouble, because school will be starting when we get back, and we'll have a lot of brewing to do. Ooooh, it's been so long, I may save some of the Crowberries for muffins...

As to the continued climate change problem: though the extinctions have been going up, and human population disasters are becoming more common, I urge you all to read the material released every year by the World Bioneer Commission in Washington D.C. and remember to ignore Harvard's Dissention - they're always looking out for you-know-who (not us). It is crucial that we not panic in the face of these recent atmospheric instabilities - the scientists assure us that overall things will be changing very gradually, and that any day now, we'll begin to see the signs of the fishery recovering worldwide. Life adapts, even better than we have learned to do as a species.

from my office at Birkenstocks Tower - Phillip 2020
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