I have a question. Tonight I have a date with a guy who used to be in the Air Force. Since he was in the Air Force, does that automatically mean he was a pilot? Can you be in the Air Force and not have flown? I don't know and I didn't want to sound like an idiot if I asked him if he knows how to fly if *everyone* in the Air Force can fly.
I have a friend who married a guy in the Air Force and I can say with certainty they don't have to know how to fly. He did set up computers for the base. They have all kinds of maintainence workers, cooks, warehouseman...just about any job you can imagine it would take to run a business.
Posted by daisy at March 22, 2004 08:18 AM
Just ask him what he does in the force. He will probably be happy to tell you because you will seem interested in it. Happy belated birthday by the way. :)
Posted by kat at March 22, 2004 08:22 AM
nope...they have many other jobs to be filled. I think it's actually pretty tough to become a pilot...fitness and eyesight wise, I think...
Posted by jason at March 22, 2004 08:50 AM
Nope - doesn't have to be a fly boy if he has Air Force tacked on him! I was in the Navy for 3 years before I saw a ship... and I forgot we had them! ;)
Posted by Susan at March 22, 2004 09:10 AM
My father was in the Air Force. I'd be scared if they let his dumb ass fly.
So no, not everyone in the Air Force is a pilot. *grin*
Posted by Mac at March 22, 2004 10:14 AM
Definitely can be in the Air Force and not fly.
I'm retired Navy and never went to sea.
Posted by Deb at March 22, 2004 10:53 AM
Funny thing is you can be a pilot in the Navy, Marines or Army too.
Posted by emily at March 22, 2004 01:02 PM
Ask him. Chances are he has not flown. Very few do.
Posted by irfan at March 22, 2004 02:06 PM
WHOA! Wait one second folks.
Irfan's advice, for starters, is teh worst one. DO NOT ASK an Air Force personnel member if they fly - that is the kiss of death on a date. The guy will shut you out IMMEDIATELY. Why? Because if he does fly, now he knows you like fly boys and will be looking to get laid that night - and if he didn't fly, he'll think all you want is a fly boy.
Just let it come up in conversation. But never ask the direct question.
Very few have flown, as Irfan pointed out. So just go with it.
Posted by Gil at March 22, 2004 02:14 PM
I never said ask a direct question!
Posted by irfan at March 22, 2004 03:37 PM
I agree with Gil - don't ask directly, but I would ask "what did you do in the Air Force?" some people have some strange and original jobs you would have never seen out in the 'civilian' world.
Posted by Susan at March 22, 2004 03:43 PM
oh no, my husband was in the air force and he cries like a little bi-atch every time we get on a plane. he was a telephone operator. :)
Posted by urs at March 22, 2004 07:47 PM
lordy no! I come from an Air Force family, and none of my USAF-retired relatives were pilots! In general, you can never go wrong just generally asking a guy what he "does".
Posted by Ang at March 23, 2004 12:21 AM
My father was an airborne sniper for the army. He got his pilots license when he was teen. We didnt know what was worse, having him as a pilot or a paratrooper.
Posted by Mullet at March 23, 2004 09:07 AM
Updates please? We are very impatient readers :)
Posted by irfan at March 23, 2004 09:35 AM
I know it's late to be adding this to the pot, but I dated (and I use the term loosely) a guy who was in the Air Force, but he was an audiologist. He had relocated to San Antonio (Wilford Hall AFB) from Washington, DC, and it was right at the time the Persian Gulf War was going on. I thought this was lame, but I went with it. He told me not to be surprised when he picked me up in fatigues because he said that they were "on call" all the time. Weird. I thought maybe he just wanted an excuse to wear them. I liked him the minute I saw him, tho, because he drove up in a pearl white 300ZX!
Posted by Joni at March 24, 2004 10:57 PM
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