In addition to collecting cute, personalized dollars from each first-timer they take up in the air (as a "tip" for their services), Matt informed me this evening that the IPs (instructor pilots) also get a hefty supply of student-funded beer the first day of each class rotation; presumably to poke a bit of fun at the "stress" of indoctrinating a bunch of newbies/commercial pilots to the most intensive pilot training experience out there.
I think, however, that the students are a bit more stressed about it!! Although, given the fact that a large chunk of them are newly of-age college grads, I think presenting the IPs with a large amount of alcohol is probably the safer bet. In our month and a half here, I have only seen one bashed-up car display by the base entrance (where D.U.I. accidents are "recreated" to encourage the 0-0-1-3 base policy [0 underage drinking, 0 drinking and driving, 1 drink/hour, 3 drinks/night]), which is *extremely* impressive, considering the stats at some of our other bases, particularly our overseas ones.
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