My first choice was to be a pilot but at the time, having less than 20/20 eyesight was considered career-limiting. I do not think that's the case anymore.
When I had been looking into it, I came to the conclusion the air force would have been the best way to get training-- any maybe even fly a fighter jet.
I have met some of those who succeeded getting that far and the perks are pretty cool -- you can actually take a fighter jet to go visit people! That being said, some of those guys are pretty wild, there is very much a fraternity like mentality with them, or at least, there was 10 years ago.
Cool story -- drop pilot off at Edmonton International who is returning to Cold Lake. He landed on the tarmac in Cold Lake before we hit Edmonton.
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