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Air Force Recruiting
Hi,
I'm 20/F/Missouri.
I just recently worked up the courage to visit an Air Force recruiter because I've felt the desire to serve my country for a long time, but never had the courage to do so.
I've been looking into the Air Force for quite some time now, and I have a few questions that I've discussed with my recruiter, but of course, being my recruiter, she will tell me what I want to hear in order to get me to join.
I want to know, from those of you who have experienced it.
1. Which education plan is better for those individuals who are interested in pursuing a different career, aside from the Air Force?
There is the TAP program, where you study your career on your off duty time, while serving active duty.
And then, there is the MGIBill, where you continue your education after serving so many years, active duty.
2. For those of you who are, or know someone who is an EOD (Explosives Ordinance Disposal): What does the job entail on a daily basis?
3. Dislikes, or dissatisfied moments of Air Force life?
I'm going to serve my country, no matter what. I just need to better prepare myself for some things I'm not sure of.
Thank you.
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When I was in the Air Force we had the Armed Forces Extension Program which allowed you to study during off duty hours. Those course were self-study courses and had no time limits for completion. Whatever credits you earned were transferable to whatever College you chose to go to after discharge, using the GI Bill. This may be what the TAP program is, ask your recruiter to clarify this for you.
My son wanted to follow me and join the Air Force, he chose to join the Army when we found that only the Army guaranteed your military career duty prior to enlistment. The Air Force may be telling you that you are qualified for EOD but you will be classified at Lackland AFB while in Basic Training and could end up going to cooks and Bakers school. You will be trained for whatever job the Air Force needs you in based on their needs at the time and your qualifications.
As to what EOD is: You will be trained to defuse unexploded mines and ordinance. A very dangerous job and one that can have a very short life span.
I was an aircraft repairman during my time in the Air Force. Once I finished basic training and AIT I thoroughly enjoyed my Air Force career. Had there not been the Vietnam war going on at the time I may have made it a career.
As to rape and women in the military. Rape and sexual harassment is something that the military, all branches, are working hard to change the occurrence and attitude towards. Military bases are little cities. The same precautions you would take against rape at home you take against rape on a military base or Navy ship. As to sexual harassment, you do not have to put up with it. There are procedures in place to report it. Disregard what others may tell you: The military takes all reports of sexual harassment seriously. If you are harassed and your report is not taken seriously a letter or phone call to your congressman will fix that in short order.
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One of my closest friends is a Navy vet.
A girl we worked with was thinking about signing up for the Navy herself and asked him what he thought about signing up and what life would be like in the military.
He thought about it for a second, seeming to chew over his response to come up with the most concise response he could to her question.
So he looked at her and asked "Do you like being raped?"
She stared at him for a second and then burst out with "What the fuck?!" and he looked her in the eye and said "If you're in the armed forces in any branch and female there's a 5/6 chance you will be sexually assaulted more than once before you are discharged"
He's never read a study on anything in his life. That was just his estimate from personal experience.
The other piece of advice he would give you is to be aware that your recruiter has already lied to you. They can tell you anything they want, but few of their promises mean anything once you have signed up and given your oath. They own you at that point, literally, you have no rights while you're in.
At least, that's as enlisted. You really want to go to college? Go get a bachelors degree with college loans and then go into the military with officers training and you'll still erase your debt without signing up to be allocated to whatever bottom of the rung post full of horny violence prone emotionally unstable teenagers they decide to send you to.
Donald says that would lower your chances to somewhere betwen 1/2 and 2/3.
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