Originally Posted by
Easy Street
[Please don’t start with the “we don’t want those who only want job security” stuff. If people who wouldn’t otherwise have contemplated a military career are encouraged to do so by economic circumstances, like what they see, and [u]get through the selection process then I would be very pleased to have them. It might even find us some talent that would normally have gone elsewhere: people who see beyond the immediate attractions of the job and have a long-term outlook. The kind of people we want as future leaders...]
+1
I was a late comer to military aviation and by no means one of the "wanted to fly before I could walk" types. If I didn't get on the course I'd have got out without even a second thought to aviation as a career.