Damien435
Active member
At first when I joined the Army I had my heart set on becoming Airborne. Well about one month ago I signed papers for my medical discharge (before I was even in I was out again) becuase I had to get knee surgery for a torn ACL in my left knee. I highly doubt Airborne will be an option after that. So I was thinking that the only other thing I really wanted to do at the time that I enlisted, 1 July 2004, was Artillery. However my opinion of the military has changed since then. When I enlisted I had a mindset that the only reason I was doing this was to fulfill my sense of duty to my country and that what I wanted didn't matter, what mattered was that my country needs soldiers, the Army knows what it needs and I will just take what they give me. Well now after having been going to DEP meetings for a year I feel I have had a change of heart. Now, I don't want to offend any grunts here but from what I have seen the Army will never run out of Infantry, sure they need a disproportionate number of Infantry to say Apache Airmen, but from what I have seen anyone who gets below a 49 on the ASVAB is basically thrown into the Infantry. I would still like to do Airborne and if that is an option after surgery I will definetly take it, but if not I want to try and become a Pilot in an Apache instead of basic Infantry. Are there any special requirements for this? Does one have to go to flight school before enlisting or can just any recruit become pretty much whatever they want to be?
**Note, my assumption that the Army needs Infantry is not counting logistics personel, I won't even pretend to be smart enough or at least have the proper schooling/experience to truly grasp logistics other than that the US uses like a 7:1 ratio.
**Note, my assumption that the Army needs Infantry is not counting logistics personel, I won't even pretend to be smart enough or at least have the proper schooling/experience to truly grasp logistics other than that the US uses like a 7:1 ratio.