Her alarm goes off at 3:30 a.m. and her loveable hound-lab mix, Rupert, is there to make sure she doesn't hit the snooze button. Second Lt. Dorothy Marie Reid rubs the sleep from her eyes as she prepares for another day as a UH-60 Black Hawk student....

For the answer, we turned to Roger Connor

They both fly, but they are essentially very different animals. The good, the bad, and the ugly of going from fixed-wing to rotary-wing flying.