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Before you can emerge victorious while doing the nation’s bidding in hostile skies across the globe, you have to make it through flight school – you have to get your wings. I’ve been an instructor at both the training command and RAG levels, and what I know based on the successes and failures of flight students I’ve dealt with over the years, is regardless of branch of service or pipeline – rotary wing, maritime, strike, pilot or NFO – to complete the program and reach your goal of earning your wings, you need three basic things: aptitude, adaptability, and attitude.

If you attend to these three things, you will make it through flight school and achieve your goal of getting your wings, and at that point you’re on your way to a life of the greatest consequence – a job you can’t believe you get paid to do and the sort of things they make movies about.