Would Aircrew or rescue swimmer better as a girl?☹️
Hi everyone!! Basically like the title says, I’m having a bit of trouble deciding what I want to do.
As of right now im enlisted as a AIRC and my ship date is may 27th. So about two weeks from now!! Woohoo!
To start off, I’m happy with my job I chose, I wanted to work with planes anyways. The possibility of being able to fly in them is a big plus for me. I was just really interested in becoming a rescue swimmer. Joining the military was honestly an impulse decision but even after maybe 2 ish months I haven’t regretted it. But if I’m going to join the military I wanted to do something that directly helped people. My recruiter had me go to this PST test for special warfair jobs. These were my scores.
I needed to get..
12 minute 500 yard swim, my time was 14:22
1.5 mile run in 12 minutes, I got 15:59😭
42 pushups in 2 minutes, I got 42😛
4 pull ups, I did 4
Then 50 sit-ups, I did 37.
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I didn’t do BAD persay. Obviously it can be better. It was good enough to where my recruiter was able to put a request out to push my ship date back a bit so I would be able to train more and hopefully, past the pst.
With all this being said. I’m a 19 year old girl, I turn 20 in June, and I’m about 106 pounds at 5’5💀 I got these scores without going to actual gym. I’ll run a mile at maybe? 3-4 times a week? It varies with how busy I am tbh. Most nights I try to do a good amount of planks, squats, pushups. Little things that don’t require any equipment. I understand that I can’t directly choose what aircrew job and that it’s whatever they need at the time but I would want to do awf specifically.
Also. I feel like I’m good with being able to push myself and doing thing I wouldn’t want to do. I’m not the type of person to just quit when things get hard. It’s either I do it and I don’t have any other option but to finish it or I don’t do it at all. I say this because I KNOW it’s going to be hard either way.
Anyways I know my everything is every where but my main questions are…
*should I just stick to aircrew and see where it takes me?
*How harsh is training and school for rescue swimmer? And are there other girls in that area too?
*with my size and weight would it be harder for me then others for a rescue swimmer?
*and does anyone know if awf is something that the navy needs right now? How can I improve my chances of getting that job?
Sorry this isn’t the most put together 😭 any kinda information would help!! Whether it’s day to day life for either job or just anything you’d wanna add :) thank you!!