Join Coast Guard?

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So I'm currently in the 1st semester of my sophomore year of college and I'm completely miserable. I want a job that actually pays money and feel like I'm serving a purpose. I'm interested in the coast guard because I'm really confident in and around water and because I love the water. I also really want to be a pilot. I feel like I could go to the coast guard and save up the money I make while serving to go to a flight school to get my pilots licenses and enough flight hours to be a commercial pilot. I would also have the GI Bill to help pay for flight school. I feel like it'd be a good option for me toward my career as a pilot. If I ever needed to then I could always go back to school and would have credits already completed that would be transferable. Do y'all think this would be a good idea? Or that this could really help me accomplish my goal of becoming a pilot and being able to find jobs as a pilot? (Of course not an airline pilot or anything like that right away but other jobs like a regional pilot?) what do y'all think?

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Daniel1120 · 26-30, M

@Everyone

I wouldn't be joining to fly. I've looked now into all of it already and I know you need a degree to be an officer and you need to be an officer to fly. What I'm saying is if I join and save the money I make and use my GI Bill to get flight lessons and stuff. My passion is actually to scuba dive. I love it and I love everything about it. I know the army, navy, and coast guard all have jobs scuba diving so if I could get into that program then I would be pretty happy diving for any branch. I would also be interested in being a rescue swimmer for the coast guard. I love swimming and I feel like I would really have a purpose saving people's lives. Also the coast guard kind of gets a bonus the other branches don't because of the fact that I would more than likely be stationed somewhere within the US.