speculation (PILOTZ!)

[fahye]

Yesterday, at my friend's awesome inner city apartment, in between bouts of panic about this neuroscience exam and eating cheesecake, the following conversation took place:

My friend: So, Mum, Freya's thinking of doing the defense sponsored medical program.
Her mother: Oh, well! You've certainly got a foot in the door here! Come around and I'll tell you what to say at the interview, and I'll make sure people know about you!
Me: ... *had forgotten that her mother is in defense recruitment* Uhokaywowthanks.
Her mother: *eyeing me* Join the Air Force, honey, you'd look much better in a blue uniform than in green.
Me: I HAVE TO GET INTO MEDICINE FIRST.

So I talked to my father about defense medicine and yes, apparently the Air Force is the best way to go.

So I looked up the job specs.

*MARRIES THE RAAF*

(Pertinent points: they still pay for everything, no situps/pushups required for entry, you owe them six years rather than the eleven you'd owe the Army, and they keep throwing around sexy sexy words like ground defence and weapons training and trauma management and aeromedical evacuation.)

Me: Look at this!
Ji: ...PILOTZ!

~

The people in the other ground-floor apartment, having remained very quiet for three months, have suddenly decided that the best way to endear themselves to their neighbours is by playing children's television very loudly on a Saturday morning.

But...it's children's television. How angry can one be, exactly?

Comments

[not-in-denial.livejournal.com]

Yep, I can see you in the RAAF. You'd spend all your spare time chasing pilots. XD

[fahye.livejournal.com]

I would not!

Maybe some of it.

[juprujac.livejournal.com]

Join the Air Force, honey, you'd look much better in a blue uniform than in green.
This is the most important thing. ;)

How would it work? Would you have to get in to a medical school and then join the Air Force? I’m curious because here you have to graduate first and then take the proper testes to be accepted in the Army as a doctor. (Oh, and by here I mean Brazil)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

*nods* First you have to get into a medical school, then you apply to join the Air Force. And you do very basic military training in your first year of med school (it's just a week or so where they teach you how to salute and wear the uniform so that you don't look stupid at official events) but you basically finish your degree and do two years of residency at a hospital before doing five months of officer and military medical training and then being posted to an air base.

[juprujac.livejournal.com]

That’s interesting. So they pay for your studies, like a student loan?
Sorry about all the questions, it’s just that I was having a discussion earlier this week with some friends about how much the university is costing our parents and how the government here doesn’t give any assistance. Here in Brazil you can only get student loans if you are very poor, and even then the government makes all these kinds of demands, it’s ridiculous.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

They pay for your studies, and it isn't even a loan - you don't have to pay it back unless you decide not to join the military at the end of your degree. They pay all university fees and for essential textbooks, and on top of that you get an annual allowance of $20,000-$33,000 depending on which year of your degree you're in.

And in Australia university is generously subsidised by the government anyway, so the defense force is only paying the other half that you would normally pay.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Wah you will be eaten by an engine turbine.

[kcdl.livejournal.com]

Sounds pretty cool. "Freya the flygirl" has certain ring to it.

My maternal grandparents were in the airforce. There was absolutely no point in mentioning that, I just thought I would.

[rimestock.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for posting this, as between you and Ji you managed to make me laugh in the middle of crying about something else.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Oh. Well, I'm glad we could help, hon :)