To answer Jay's query:
Depends upon what you set as the start marker. To earn the brevet you need to complete officer training first, and of course before that there are all the interviews and aptitude tests, and before that the work towards the dream.
For my lad in the RN:
From joining Dartmouth to getting his wings was 3 years and 6 months, from starting EFT to completing BFJT and getting his wings was 1 year and 11 months.
He had about 18 months of waiting and tests, and interviews etc before joining, throw on top of that the time and energy he spent in the cadets working towards his target and the years before that dreaming of what he wanted to do.
I have a school letter he wrote aged 9 outlining his dream to be a sea-harrier pilot...so in his case it has taken 11 years of hard work to achieve his dream.
...and here she is flaunting them the way a cow at a farmers market wears a rosette - as if they are meaningless.