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Glad no one was hurt. Excellent work done by the young pilot! >


Peters, who obtained his pilots license four months ago, told KCBS/KCAL that he plans to be back in the cockpit next week.

well, sure he does -he's apparently pretty fucking good at it >

I'd trust an 18 yr old gamer over an old fart like me any day :) >

All those years of video games paid off :) >

Sure....video games....lol... because he's young, right?!
Or could it be the many, many hours of training under the supervision of an experienced professional that it takes to get a pilot's license? >

Please stop. If you can't recognize a clear joke reddit is a strange place to be. >

No one is oblivious to the joke, it’s just a lame joke for grandmas. >

it's weird that they specifically call him a "teenager".... I guess 18 is technically a teenager, but he's old enough to vote and old enough to fly a plane for the military where he could kill and die in the name of his country.... plus he demonstrated that he was able to handle the situation.
When I hear "teenager" I think under 17... not a legal adult...
Also, dude looks like he could be in his 30s based on the photo. >

I agree..weird wording. 
Your comment made me think though, are all military pilots officers (i.e. college educated)? It seems that all of them I have seen have been, but I'm by no means an expert. >

Yeah for any military branch you need to be an officer to be a pilot + I think ~ 2 years of training and a 10 year commitment sooo even assuming he finished college by 18 went straight to the Air Force he’d still be training lol >

You don't have to be college educated, but you do need to be an officer.
There are 3 main routes to a commission (officership).


Military academy, of which there is really only one school per branch. You graduate college and commission. 


College ROTC - you go to college like a normal kid, but supplement your college workload with extra military classes, excersises, activities, and a month or so long stay at field training after your sophomore year. You graduate and commission, but they're pretty distinct activities. My roommate did both, and they were different ceremonies. The graduation was in the stadium with the whole damn school, the commissioning was in a classroom with only friends and family.


Enlist, put in a few good years, then apply to and get accepted to OCS (Officer Candidate School). Each branch has their own OCS, but they're similar in the sense that they take enlisted folk without a college degree and level them up to office. OCS is a few months long. No college degree required... But of course, it helps. 


A coworker of mine went to college, but didn't do ROTC. He then enlisted in the Air National Guard, so he held down a regular day job but did his military service on the weekends. After some time, he went to OCS for two months, and it was at the same Air Force Base I did my AFROTC field training (for one month). We chatted afterward.. Similar experience in many ways. I think the biggest differences are a result of the 15 year time gap between his experience and mine.
Hope that helps. >

Nah, you need a bachelors degree to commission into the US military.