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Should I even bother becoming an Air Force navigator?

All of the feedback I’ve received about this job has been overwhelmingly negative (“it’s a dead-end job”…”you’re basically just a paassenger and don’t get to fly the plane”…”you make coffee for the pilot”., etc.,)

I’ve flight physicaled and they say I’m okay to go for a nav slot but they disqualified me for pilot. I failed the depth perception test so laser-eye surgery won’t do me the slightest bit of good (what a waste of potential talent for someone with a near-perfect PCSM score).

Furthermore, why does the Air Force (supposedly) continue to have such a high demand for navs if GPS technologies are supposedly making these positions obsolete?

Don’t worry, I don’t believe everything my recruiter tells me.

Reasons I told them no when asked if i wanted to go nav:

1) dead-end job. Yeah, if you’re a pilot, you can fly civilian when you get out. However, most civilian aircraft don’t use Navs though. Good luck selling those skills that nobody needs back in the real world.
2) Dying AFSC. The demand for Navs does NOT remain high. Alot of the positions have already gone away or are in the process. As planes get up-moded and new airframes come out, navs just aren’t needed anymore.
3) If i’m going to have the chance of being shot down in a plane, it’s going to be my hand on the control stick.
4) There are MUCH cooler jobs in the Air Force. No offense, but Nav just never seemed that fun to me. I’d rather hop around with my troops on the ground and make sure the base is working than sit in a stiff back chair playing with maps and compasses

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