Is the tattoo policy for the airforce similar to the navy, that being as long as you can cover up a tattoo on the inner part of your forearm with the palm of your hand is that still acceptable.

Why not just ditty bop to the recruiters office and show them your tat and ask if its "ok"?

the airforce can either not care much or be too picky when it comes to this. Make sure that theres no gang meaning or anything offensive behind it first, then I wouldn't have it below the elbow atleast, nothing viewable if your in a tshort and shorts. ofcourse they can waiver some things and theres a percentage of your skin that must be showing but I cant remember it off the top of my head, recruiters stuff there.

THe official AF reg states that tattoos can cover no more than 25% of the exposed body part. That's still pretty vague. You should ask the recruiter, who will probably take a poloroid of your tat and send it to his boss for the final word. I think in this case the "exposed body part" would be the entire forearm, not just the inside. So if you can cover it with your palm, you might be ok. I've seen active duty people with tats that size, if they got a waiver or had some kinda special circumstance I don't know.

ha! 25% of exposed body part....show up naked

you could probably join the army they are taking just about anyone now, they are making waivers for all kinds of things they never used to in the recent past. As soon as they start feeling the scrape at the bottem of the barrel it wont be long before they start the draft. And the air force will be ran by contractors

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As soon as they start feeling the scrape at the bottem of the barrel it wont be long before they start the draft. And the air force will be ran by contractors

And they still won't let you fly jets, LOL!!

Thats a whole other issue, if you want to be a pee on then they will take anyone. If you want to do something profound you might as well buy your own plane because the level of effort involved to make say 300,000 to spend on a 2/3 scale P-51 mustang (thunder mustang) is probably less effort than trying to fly for the air force. And when you take the cash in to buy the plane its a pretty open and closed deal, with the air force no matter how much effort you put in its still a crap shoot and more importantly someone elses ultimate decision

That is called taking the best people to fly which is not a shoe in for anyone.

So if you are not deemed to be "the best" by the decision makers you have just wasted X years where you could have been doing it on your own ensuring that your level of effort matched the reward. The problem is they wont be up front with you, either your going to flight school or not before you signe anything, they will find out if you have what it takes in flight school.

They will find out what it takes in flight school?!?! Thats not even prudent business! At the cost of multi-million dollar military aircraft, we'll see what you are capable of? HA! Thats laughable its so silly!

"Here, Round Ronald, have this F-22 Raptor. Conduct these high-G manuevers, and engage hostile air and ground targets. Oh, you don't know what the hell you're doing? Nah, thats cool, go ahead and give it a shot."

Bwahahahahahahaha!!!
Yes, yes. Because being a civilian pilot is soooo much like a fighter pilot, or military airlift pilot. Let me know when the shuttle lands, rppearso! <snicker>

flight school is usually taught with T-37s and T-38s and you have plenty of ground before you go up. All im saying is OCS is totally irrelavant in measuring you ability as a pilot. OCS is kicking dirt in your face and has nothing to do with piloting ability and should not be used as a gauge of performance. Of course you would not know that because you have probably never been up in a trainer, so now I do believe you are just making things up for the sake of argument, which is fine because its entertaining.

If a officer candidate can't make it through OCS training, then there is no way they will let him near the controls of any military aircraft. Doesn't logic exist in your reality?

Thats like saying I have to be a good cake baker before I can work as an electrician the two are totally unrelated.

Still stuck on stupid. Don't you get tired of that?

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Thats like saying I have to be a good cake baker before I can work as an electrician the two are totally unrelated.

Maybe in the civil world of electricians it might be unrelated. However, in the military world, it is relevant. To be in the military you need some sort of "basic" military training. In a combat arms branch of service (US Army, USMC) you need basic combat training, before you go to basic officer training. Basic combat training teaches the basics of the military lifestyle, rank structure, discipline and how to react in a "hostile" environment. Basic officer training consists of how to be an "officer" in the military. They reinforce discipline and the military lifestyle of an officer. You learn how to be "an officer and a gentleman". Officers are supposed to be more "civilized" than their enlisted counterparts. This is where basic officer training comes in. You need to go through all of this, and make it through before they will even consider putting you in charge of a large group of men or in control of multi-million dollar equipment (aircraft, ships etc).

So yes in the military world, being a good cake baker (a trainee, basic or officer) is required before they will let you be an electrician (pilot, commander of a large group of killing machines etc).

You're not born with the knowledge you learned through 16 years of school. You start at the bottom. You first learn to interact with your peers, and your letters, numbers and colors. Then you can move on to learning how to read etc etc. Then after years of school are you able to solve complex mathematical or mechanical problems. Give a 5 year old a diagram of gears and ask him/her if you turned one gear which way would the other gears turn. He/she wouldn't be able to tell you.

Of course, I'm sure rppearso popped out of his mom talking and writing. Can't you tell by his excellent grammar and grasp of the english language?

sometimes I think I'm the one stuck on stupid with my continued interaction with that guy.

That's because you like a challenge gunny.

Florida boy was a challenge, but I'm getting the idea that this guy is a total waste of human skin.

Drain babies exihibit more capacity for growth than he ever has.

ouchhh!!