Canadian pilots in USAF?

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08-10-2006, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Linebacker35

The academy does take international students which have been nominated by their countries defence department. The academy was very helpful in helping me get it started, but the stupid Canadian defence department had no idea what was going on. I tried talking to 5 differant people in the defence department that were to stupid to understand what had to be done.

How would a Canadian go about getting into the AFA? Is it possible to receive flight training as well? I know after you receive your degree, your not obligated to serve time in the United States Military! How about costs?

08-10-2006, 08:34 PM

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Another quick question... What type of equipment do you train on while in the Air Force Academy?

08-12-2006, 03:07 PM

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Just to follow up on this...I was talking to a B-1B pilot yesterday at the Abbotsford Air Show (YXX) and he said that any Canadian citizen can join the USN or USAF, put in a 2yr tour and leave with training and a US citizenship. I asked, "Are you sure?" He said thats exactly what he did (originally from Calgary) but he loved the USAF so much, he decided to stay and become a B-1B guy.

Just an FYI...

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fsi

08-23-2006, 03:47 PM

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During 20 years as a USAF officer I never met another officer wearing the US flag who was not a US citizen. Lots of non-citizens are enlisted in the US forces as others have stated and I have known many. There are also lots of foreign officers who are in US units but are still members of their own country's forces. There are lots of exchange officers including ones from Canada. I have known Canadian Air Force pilots who were exchange officers with the USAF. They flew the same planes and did the same work as the USAF pilots. In fact we had a Canadian writing our basic flying reg for quite awhile. There are many more that are not exchange officers but are part of a training agreement. All NATO members and many others can come to the academies, UPT and professional development courses. When I went to UPT we had Kuwaiti, Saudi and various Central American officers attending. Again they were not "in" the USAF but doing the same training.