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Show Young Americans Can Enter Air Force Pilot Unit "Young Americans looking forward to a flying future now have an opportunity to enter the United States Air Force pilot pil-ot training program without waiting until after they have completed two years of college," col-lege," SSgt. Gene L. Stevens, member of the Aviation Cadet Selection Team at Hill Air Force Base, stated today. The basic requirements now call for the applicant to be a single male citizen between the. ages of 19 and 26V2, a high school graduate, and in good physical and mental health. Applicants will be tested at i the personal processing squadron squad-ron nearest their home. If they are fully qualified, they will probably be assigned to Lackland Lack-land Air Force Base, San Antonio, An-tonio, Texas, in a month or so to start their Air Force Careers. First, the student, on entering enter-ing pre-flight at Lackland, will receive officer training, academic, academ-ic, and military subjects for twelve weeks. It is when the student enters primary that he actually starts flying. During his flight training he will learn basic instrument flying, acrobatics, acro-batics, cross - country flying, night flying, engineering, weather, weath-er, navigation radio and theory of flight. Upon completion of the approximately ap-proximately six months of primary, pri-mary, the cadet goes on to four months of basic flight training, at which time he may be assigned as-signed to either single engine or multi-engine training. Upon completion of basic, the student is commissioned a second lieutenant lieu-tenant in the U.S. Air Force. Sgt. Stevens will be in Roosevelt Roose-velt the 28th of this month and is located in the Roosevelt Hotel. |