I'm going into the USAF...

[Blade]

Well yesterday I went to a USAF recuiter, and decided I'm going into the USAF enlisted. (Don't worry its still a year off before I join up.) I think I'm going to apply for...

Jet Engine Mechanic
Fighters (Tech)
Bombers (Tech)
Intelligence
Avionics

I get five choices that I pick to put on a form. The one i most want to the one I least want. If a posistion Isn't availible for the first one, it goes down the list and so on and so forth. I'll be coming out of basic as a Airman First Class A1C (E-3) because of my JROTC training. After two years automatic promotion to Senior Airman SrA (E-4). Look at the dormitories enlisted personnell get  http://www.afcee.brooks.af.mil/dc/dcd/arch/enlisteddormitories/pdf/figure_5b.pdf

[ozzy72]

Good luck Erik, I think you've made a very sound career choice (of course I'm biased )

Mark

[Craig.]

good luck blade:)
and good choice one of the few armed forces you really have to use your brain:)

[BFMF]

Cool. I'm gonna try to enlist in the US Air Force maybe next year. Not exactly sure what i'll apply for yet, but i'm still looking at all the possibilites.

[wolf8218]

I wanna be a pilot  ;D
but i guess i have to have a major for that, so im off to college first!

[Craig.]

thats my way of working it to, if i am going to join the airforce one day i am going to get a degree first and go for pilot, i wouldnt mind getting hold of the F-22 to be honest with ya:)

[wolf8218]

F22
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[Craig.]

do i even want to know what that was about?:)

[Blade]

I THINK he said the F/A-22 rocks. In some stupid text format that someone created so people can pass notes in class and the teachers couldn't decipher them.

Thanks guys! I was looking into the USMC also but I saw that the Air Force offered more and I'd like to work on aircraft. When I join up I'll still be here, albiet not as much, and using FS and all my other games also. I'll have high speed internet I'm sure at most stations I'm at. But if not I guess I'll have to pay for a 56k conn  >:(. If the airforce will allow it. But I'm sure they have high speed internet in all the dormitorys. Most everyone will have a PC with them I'm sure. I'm pretty sure the USAF is the only service that allows you to bring your PC to the base with you, all the other services I don't think you can. You see this is what my dream is. To work around the biggest and the baddest aircraft the world has and still use my PC, so that means I can still design planes! But at a MUCH MUCH lower pace than now. Due to the USAF's needs, and deployments etc.

[Craig.]

oooh ok:)
in my day we just spoke to each other, got told to stop but still carried on:)
good luck again with it, and if i am not mistaken you'll get to spend a few weeks in san antonio when you join dont you?

[Blade]

Yep six weeks in San Antonio for basic, I'm not telling Andrew when I'm there, he'll probably pop up at the bases gate wanting to see me lol.

[loomex]

Before you sign any thing, make sure you are guaranteed the job you want. DO NOT go general and let the AF decide where they want you. If you can not be guaranteed DO NOT SIGN!! You seem to be a very bright kid, and if you are smart you will have mom or dad tag along just to double check. When he says you are guaranteed an engine mechanic , make sure its for a plane and not a truck.
In 1983 I went in guaranteed in security thinking police work. I did not notice that at the time there was two types of security. Security Specialist and security police. The recruiter hosed me in to guarding missles and not police as I though it was.

Dont count on getting a dorm room like the one you linked to. That only one base.


Thats my piece of advice for you.
IMHO, you have made a good desision by going in the military, and a great choice by going into the USAF.
Good Luck Erik

[Blade]

The recruiter told me that every base now has those dorms. Yes my Mom and Dad are going in next week to talk about it. Also you can't just signup as mechanic. I'll be as a Jet Engine Mechanic, or Bomber/Fighter Technician, Avionics or Intelligence. Its changed since 1983, now I choose when I want to go to basic once I graduate, and they don't let you do general, you have to choose the feild you want to work in and then you sign a contract. I won't sign anything till I'm guaranteed. I have looked around and yes the USAF since 1992 has been upgrading all of their dorms on every permanant base to this status, either small housing like those. Or in large buildings but with the same layout.

[BFMF]

The thing that worries me the most is that when I run, I get some pain in my side. I'm not sure If I can run the 2 miles in 18 minutes, but i'm definently gonna try to work up to it. I've got an uncle who was some sort of technician in the Army who had polio in one of his legs, so he didn't have to march.

Also, do you get weekends off in the Air Force?

[BFMF]

Yep six weeks in San Antonio for basic, I'm not telling Andrew when I'm there, he'll probably pop up at the bases gate wanting to see me lol.

Sure, like you would really see me pop in to see what