Long time no talk fellow SEC'ers. Looks like I'm going to Mormon country.

Nothing against y'all who are Mormon, I'll be joining the 386th (if I recall correctly) Maintenance Ops squadron at Hill AFB Ogden Utah working with F16's.

Yay me! I'll get a free air show almost every day lol.

How's everyone been lately?

Welcome Back Arti.
How was it?

Sounds pretty badass congratulations man. Nothing much really, waiting for some games to release, working and college the usual.

Hey Art! nice to see you back!

Lol, still in tech school until the 6th of April, but I know here I'm going. Military life hasnt been all thy bad. Can't complain really other than Basic training really jacked up my right knee. I learned from a physician here at my tech training base that I have a weak muscle in my inner quads which controls my knee cap, since its weak, when I run for any length of time, my knee cap rolls over to the side and grinds. I was on a waiver of no running or what have you for a month and a half.

Horror stories aside, BMT was relatively easy, just do as your told, don't back talk and study your material for a test that even a 5th grader could pass and you'll be fine for the most part (and be able to do at least 33 push ups, 46 sit ups in a minute and run the 1.5 mile in under 12 min)

Honestly, I can't wait to go home for a little, being in training status sucks.

Good to see you Arty. I'm in the process of joining right now. Going into Air Traffic Control if possible.

How's San Antonio this time of year?

Hey man, glad to see you're doing okay.

Mega it's cold, but not as cold as TN I'd imagine. Any idea what date you'll be shipping to basic? I'll give you some advice I gave to a friend of my brothers.

Practice doing push ups and sit ups in sets of 50+ within one minute time spans. If our can push 50+ in a minute you're golden, also practice runnin 3 miles every other day, about 10 minutes of steady self pace jog to warm up, 14 minutes of accelerated self pace jogging to push your limits, and then 6 minutes of all out sprints. Break those last six minutes up into 30 second intervals, 30 seconds of all out sprints, 30 seconds of brisk walking.

This I EXACTLY how thy will do PT in basic at least for running. If you can run the 1.5 mile in 11:59 or less you're good, but try to do it in less time because your numbers WILL suffer due to lack of sleep and stress.

Start learning the ranks from E1 Airmen Basic all the way up to O10 General so that you'll be ahead of the game. If you can memorize the Airmens creed and song so that you'll have less to worry about in basic. Reporting statements is another "sir trainee *insert name here* reports as ordered sir, *insert question or whatever statement here*" your sentence does NOT end with sir, no sir sandwiches is the air force.

There are a crap ton of things I can advise you about, or try to. So just ask away of you'd like.

Artimise Flare wrote: run the 1.5 mile in under 12 min

already do that every other day. Have any other good tips? Been wanting to join the airforce just not sure which career to pursue, maybe fire protection.

I can't really recommend too many jobs. It depends on what you want to do. Fire department, and security forces don't seem to be the best, since even in the civilian world, if I recall, all they care about is that you served if you want to pursue those careers afterwards. I'd suggest trying to go into something that involves flying, like radar operations on AWACs or intelligence jobs (those pay a crap ton and open up the doors for FBI and other governmental jobs afterwards). That's what I was going for but unfortunately didn't get chosen for them.

Mind you, you can cross train after roughly 4 years in to another field of you meet the requirements. Avoid maintenance jobs of ou don't like standing out on the flight line rain or shine fixing air craft or equipment. If you feel really daring, try out for SERE which is spec ops training where you'll most likely train to be a para rescue. That stuff is insane.

Whenever you do go, do NOT shave your head, do NOT wear anything with airforce on your clothes or on an item. Bring with you some plane Jane BLACK flip flops, a regular non electric razor, addresses and phone numbers of your family, toothbrush, and as few clothes as possible, you won't be wearing them in basic for long.

As said, practice reporting statements, knowing your ranks and how to recognize their insignias. If you have anyone that has been in recently that can teach you how to do facing movements do it. It may help you from being yelled at if only a little.

You'll most likely be on our face a lot since you WILL get punishe or the screw ups of another person. There really isn't all I can say that will really prepare you for basic. It's something you just have to experience to understand. It's nowhere near as bad as marines or army, but it's stressful nonetheless.

Artimise Flare wrote:I can't really recommend too many jobs. It depends on what you want to do. Fire department, and security forces don't seem to be the best, since even in the civilian world, if I recall, all they care about is that you served if you want to pursue those careers afterwards. I'd suggest trying to go into something that involves flying, like radar operations on AWACs or intelligence jobs (those pay a crap ton and open up the doors for FBI and other governmental jobs afterwards). That's what I was going for but unfortunately didn't get chosen for them.
nonetheless.

I started to look into the careers and i was thinking about pursuing Pararescue or Aeriel Gunner, but i have bad eye sight so it might cripple me if i do decide too pursue that career(Aeriel Gunner) and i also don't have much upper body strength so i guess i should start working on that. I might start off in an intelligence job since i might be interested in getting a Government job some day, then start cross training for SERE.Thanks for the tips man.

Para rescue REQUIRES you to do SERE. If you want to do para rescue, I suggest you start working heavily in your endurance, upper body strength and swimming. The stuff they do is insane, if I recall on par or close to rangers. They have to know how I treat wounds, carry a fully grown man with combat gear while behind enemy lines, and of there isn't enough room in the helicopter, evade capture until they can be picked up.

I dare say that I think they're better in some regards to rangers and the like simply because they have to rescue people at the same time. But that's just my opinion, anyway, intel is a very high paying but hard field to get into. A guy from my flight is doing airborne linguist and his tech training alone looks like its going to be roughly a year or two years worth. Time in service does not start until you graduate tech school, sp he signed up for six years when in reality he will most likely be serving 7 or 8.

You guys make that sound cool.

Over here, working in the government is just about going around ass kissing, being a corrupt asshole, steal all you can so your family can live like the royalty, and fuck everyone else.

I fear for my country when presidential elections come. Who knows what douchebag will get up there Last time, one guy that wanted to fuck over your salary to give it to the "poor" lost by about .5% only. As in, if you bust your ass 8 years in medicine, you just bend over and give your money to some hobo that never tried to better himself.

so he was a democrat then?

Ars Diaboli wrote:You guys make that sound cool.

Over here, working in the government is just about going around ass kissing, being a corrupt asshole, steal all you can so your family can live like the royalty, and fuck everyone else.

Sounds like Greece. Hell, in this country, half the law enforcement and armed forces are far right, nationalist, neo Nazi fascists.

Arty! glad to see you stop in, and I'm glad to hear things are going well. From everyone here at the SeC, we appreciate your service!

Lol, I should post some pics or something of when I graduated. Certainly one of the proudest days I've ever had.

Frostbyrn wrote:Damn I came in here expecting you to insult the Amish
We all know you hate them

its not the amish I hate. Its the hooterites........ GOD HOW I HATE THEM!!!!

What in the world is a hooterite???

and artimise, what role did you sign up for in the airforce?

Zillah wrote:What in the world is a hooterite???

They are kinda like the Amish, but they DO use modern technology. But they are liars and thiefs, and are not to be trusted.

I am currently enlisted for six years of service. My job is called Maintenance Management Analyst, my job is essentially to gather data on the performance, monthly expenditures for the maintenance of air craft as well as the cost of man hours to perform the various maintenance tasks on said air craft, compile a chart and spreadsheet of said data and build it into a presentation to brief my squadron commander (Major all the way up to full bird colonel). My responsibilities also include helping with any technical problems regarding the maintenance database and arranging a report on the issue I be sent to a higher command onthe event the problem is not able to be solved locally.

In a nut shell I'm a glorified auditor and tech support guy. Can't complain, I'm the guy everyone hates and doesn't want to piss off because if I do my job right, I can make some very powerful friends, such as the numerous officers that I will be working with.

I hope that if I do everything right, I'll be able to
Make rank my first attempts and by the end of my 6th year, I'll be sewing on Staff Sergeant (4 stripes). If I can, I'll get my degree as fast as I can and then go for my commission to be an officer.

That sounds awesome dude. Do you know if you'll get to be stationed overseas at any point?

Most likely, but I'm going to be at my first duty station for at least 4 years. It's not so bad, great place for hiking and snow boarding at least, also it's only an 11 hour drive from home.