If you commission in to the Air Force as a non-rated officer (not a pilot, navigator, air battle manager) you'll be required to serve 4 years active duty. Pilots are required to serve 10 years. Basically it would be 8 years active (2ish years for flight school, 6 years actually flying) then 2 years inactive........
Stumbling block. For other uses, see Stumbling block (disambiguation). A stumbling block or scandal in the Bible is a metaphor for a behavior or attitude that leads another to sin.
Occasionally, he was tripped up by some orthographical stumbling-block, but on the whole he got on very well indeed, and when he had signed his name, and had removed a finishing blot from the paper to the crown of his head with his two forefingers, he got up and hovered about the table, trying the effect of his performance from various points of ...