You mean it's a seargent's pilot ground school? Or how much rank do you need to fly one of those contraptions in the military? Or how much respect does an Air Force cadet get compared to say, Army, Navy, or Marine Corps, Coast Guard etc.? Is there a rank-and-pay differential going on? There's a little bit too much corporate-style straight-A excellency (Six Sigma etc.) going on in the Air Force with procurement and supply contracts with the good old boys at Raytheon, Boeing, Airbus, the Chinese parts-makers. There's a top-hatter government-gangster TS/SCI clearance floating around as a status symbol without any particular "need to know" any particular information in order to do one's job.