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Please know your chances of flying a plane for any branch of the military is slim to none. They do series of tests and exclude all but a tiny portion of the applicants. They won't tell you that though, until you are signed up. Then it'll be swabbing the poop deck or peeling potatoes for you. Before you join the military please know that many members of the military are paid only once a month and the wages are laughably low. Then please know they sometimes send your paychecks to the wrong accounts and don't fix it until a few months later, because in the uniformed services, the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. Not everything is computerized and fixing things is slow. They will even send you incorrect orders. My personal favorite was when they sent us orders to go to Korea just 2 days before our wedding, when we were really in the middle of an educational delay. It took several days to clear it up. We had to fax delay orders to 6 different people and we had angry brass calling us on our honeymoon. "Honey, General Sphincter is on the line again- he wants a hard copy of your original orders sent to him no later than 2 days. We'll have to overnight it!" Overnight = $20 for their f'ing mistake! If they overpay you, they will just rip that money back out of your account before you even get the notification letter in the mail, so you have all kinds of bounced checks. You will be told you get a pay increase so you sign up for more time, and then don't get an increase. When your time is up, now they are keeping soldiers "indefinitely" because so few people will sign up during a war. They have the right to keep you far far beyond your contractual period. Crime on the bases is high because soldiers are paid low wages and some are on welfare. They never catch the theives. Expect your stuff to be broken into many times a year. Don't leave things out in your car. Put locks on all the doors of your living quarters. Please know that when you enlist, you are not given all you need in the field, even just for simple field exercises. You may have to invest $1,000 for basics like a field flashlight, camel pack water backpack, extra socks and fatigues, walkie talkies, flea collars to put around your ankles (sand fleas), and the list goes on... Please know that, as a soldier of any stripe, you must undergo a series of relatively new and unknown innoculations that have proved in the past to make men sick. When you complain, and have proof, your claim to benefits will be denied. Please know that when you enlist you will be exposed to toxins and your superiors may keep this from you, which is related to the above warning. The tips of US munitions are now being made out of depleted uranium. When they go off, the area all around the explosions are filled with uranium particle dust which goes into the lungs and causes all kinds of symptoms, like asthma and numerous neurological problems. They don't give you a face mask. In fact, they tell you it is harmless, but if you check the radiation levels of the air particulates near Iraq post bombing, you can see the elevated levels. The particles even drifted over Europe and lowered their air quality ratings. Google the halflife of uranium. It's in the hundreds of thousands of years. At the beginning of this current Iraq war, our president signed into law huge cuts in veteran's benefits. He just wants to show all you soldiers how he supports your hard work out there in the 120F Iraqi sun. You will be asked to do things that are against your morals. You will not be able to avoid them. You may be forced to kill people you personally know for certain are innocent. You will feel hot, bored, desperate, freaked and sad. Not in that order. You will have hardship tours of long periods without your family friends and loved ones. Girls around the bases have many vd's. Please know that whatever the recruiter tells you, it is surely to be at minimum 100 times worse. The recruiter is not paid to play tictactoe with you. He is to say whatever it takes to get you to sign. Please know that when you are a member of the services, your body becomes just "government property" and you are treated as such. You are made to swear an oath stating just that during induction ceremonies. If you have any grain of personal pride and human dignity, you may want to think about that. While it's fun to shout WHOOAH! and dress in fatigues, the US military offers no real benefits. Sorry kid. They will leave you high and dry. Legless and poor, with nervous ticks like eye twitching.