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Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:54 am
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in Colorado.
How presitigious is it/how hard to get in? Is it specifically just training for the airforce, or after graduation can you go in any direction you want, any obligation to the airforce at all afterward? Aside from just some nationalism and perhaps christianity presences, is there likely to be any indoctrination of any kind (whether political or religious)? What are the most extremely strenous scenarious that a cadet might endure while enrolled in the academy? Any likelihood of being sent to an ongoing war/like automatic enlistment? Is there an option of pursuing other-type majors that would typically have nothing to do with the military? If anyone lives in Colorado or has been there, how urban is Colorado Springs?
Erm, I usually feel uncomfortable about a woman joining the military. For their privacy being violated, out in a different country (perhaps even 3rd world), by American male soldiers. It's sad, but it happens. How unlikely would it be for a woman to be isolated from the rest of the academy and taken advantage of?
I've looked up, asked after, and heard some information but I wanted to see what a "general public" response would be, or if anyone could direct me to a good link other than collegeboard's or something biased like their home-link; http://www.usafa.af.mil/
Thank you, any information at all is appreciated.
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Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 3:54 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 5:03 am
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:09 am
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I'm not an expert by any means. I have a couple of Airforce friends though, so I have heard a little about what it's like.
They both got Psych degrees through the Airforce. But now they owe the Airforce a bunch of time, have to move from state to state as the Airforce tells them to, have to work for the Airforce (they basically babysit bombs or something as I understand it), and have to ship off to war if the Airforce tells them to.
They both love it, even though it's ended some otherwise good relationships for them (women said they weren't willing to move around, weren't willing to have a partner who was shipped off to war, etc.). But to me (just my personal opinion) it seems like signing your life away to something that's probably going to be stupid and dangerous.
And to answer your question about being taken advantage of: "A Veterans Administrative Study financed by the US Army Medical Corps reported that 1 in 3 women in the military were raped." http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Email_blast_september2_2009.vp.html
So it's a pretty big decision. If you're interested, talk to someone. I think they have recruitment people all over the place. If that doesn't sound like your cup of tea, maybe the Peace Corps would be more up your alley?
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Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 3:28 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 8:00 am
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Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:52 am
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 7:10 am
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It wasn't so much your site as it was the source material your site was getting it's info from. Either way, you are right, it is a problem, though with most of the statistics out there for rape, I'm almost positive it would be by the military's definition of rape, which is a bit...strict (and under which, an extremely high percentage of military males have been raped. Every time you see a man drink an alchoholic beverage and then sometime later that night get "lucky", according to military standards, that male was raped).
As far as your last comment goes, we know there is rape outside the military, as well.
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Posted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 8:32 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2010 8:12 am
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