I choose to ignore the Alaska crack What I was getting at was a friend of my family was hell bent to be a Navy pilot so got a degree in forestry, of all things, and won his dream and became a carrier pilot. Of course he was Lucky and was stationed in places like Texas,which I suspect would be to your liking By the way I have meet a good number of coast guard people here, and they are thrilled to be "stuck" in Alaska.
I meant it was a ignorant question by me not you.