Thread: Ask me about the Army...

Does the army over there feel it's as pointless as many civilians back home think?

Hey thanks a lot for this thread. Awww I see you have a frown by "location".

Oh and how are you personally faring over there?

I applied to join the South African airforce in February, I wanted to be a fighter pilot but it turns out I have mild bilateral hearing loss, so I couldn't fly in the military

Anyway, before I knew I was deafish, I had decided that if I couldn't get into the South African airforce (we have number issues here, like of all the people taken in so many have to be black, so many have to be white, so many have to be female etc. etc. so if you're not in the top 10 candidates for your "bracket" then you don't stand much chance of getting in) I was going to look into getting citizenship and joining the USAF or RAF.

My question is how much involvement do they have in the war over there, and how effective are they, on all lines (transport, fighter and choppers), from your experience?

Originally Posted by 13redfan

I applied to join the South African airforce in February, I wanted to be a fighter pilot but it turns out I have mild bilateral hearing loss, so I couldn't fly in the military

Anyway, before I knew I was deafish, I had decided that if I couldn't get into the South African airforce (we have number issues here, like of all the people taken in so many have to be black, so many have to be white, so many have to be female etc. etc. so if you're not in the top 10 candidates for your "bracket" then you don't stand much chance of getting in) I was going to look into getting citizenship and joining the USAF or RAF.

My question is how much involvement do they have in the war over there, and how effective are they, on all lines (transport, fighter and choppers), from your experience?

There will be some stuff I cant really answer in depth here...I can tell you this though...Choppers transport wounded when people arent in driving distance to a place where care is available...and Choppers provide us support to...and when they provide support they fuck people up real horrorshow...As for planes and airforce involvement...planes take us in country, and planes take us out of country, that is about the only thing I myself have seen planes used for in Iraq.