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I went through BASIC at Ft. Polk, not my favorite time. Other than that, I liked my job in the Army. Later, after going back to school...getting married...and 2 kids...ALL SIMULTANEOUSLY...I joined the Navy to fly jets. Innitially I was in the NFO (Naval Flight Officer) program and within 1 week of getting my WINGS OF GOLD, when I had a really bad sinus/ear problem during a flight, I was grounded for months during the recovery process, then was told by the flight surgeon that if I continued in the jets I could expect more of the same. I said no thanks and was removed from flight status. While waiting for reassignment I was encouraged by another pilot to try for a waiver to fly helo's, since they fly at relatively low altitude (no problems while in the Army all those years, I had a lot of years in the Nat. Guard too). Anyway, I got the waivers, one for the medical issue and the other because I was over the age limit for pilots. Since I had more flight hours than the flight instructors, they modified the pilot program for me and I began with the PRIMARY phase of training. Within a couple weeks of completing PRIMARY I started having migraines. Needless to say it did not take too many weeks of that before the flight surgeon said that they would not let me fly any longer since I was having to take narcortics for the migraines. GROUNDED AGAIN, this time for good, and they put me in an administrative job in aviation maintenance. I hated it, I am a technician by birth/creation, not a paper pusher. So I took the next opportunity to exit stage right. See, I should have just stayed in the Army and played with the Huey's.
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