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Originally Posted by 53Driver
This still makes me chuckle and fortunately an idea the U.S. Marines do not support. My degree? Political Science. Meanwhile, I watched people much "smarter" than me with all sorts of different engineering degrees either wash out of the program or Drop on Request (DOR). Desire, discipline, working hard and a willingness to learn is WAY more important than a degree. Heck, General Chuck Yeager was just a "good ol' country boy".
About the only place in aviation (as a pilot) where an engineering degree makes sense to be a requirement is that of a test pilot. This, of course, is only my opinion and probably doesn't count for much.
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It is not a "requirement" here and any degree will help but for decades now, to get any position in the Canadian Forces, you stand a better chance with a degree. When I say any position I truly mean
any! Right down to your basic infantry grunt a minimum of some community college will help bump you up the list (not necessarily get you in right away but just move you up the waiting list). The higher the position the more applicable the degree should be. I doubt that a Political Science degree would help much here if trying for any form of "technical" trade up too and including pilots and aircrew. It is important to keep in mind that you could have more pilots, aircrew and techs in one carrier task force then we have in our entire military. I can not stress enough how radically different our two countries are in their approach to military staffing.
Now, I could be way off base as I haven't sat in the Recruiting Officer position for about 15 years but it has been that way since the early 80s and I doubt it has changed much.