is it ok to join the air force at this time?

is it ok to join the air force at this time?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Well, why do you want to join?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Multiple reasons

      >To honor my family's legacy
      >To earn college credit
      >Learn about combat
      >Travel

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        If you want to go to college, just go to college.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Learn about combat
        >In the Air Force
        kek I also thought the Air Force would give combat training. I mean I didn't expect to be magically turned into a high-speed doorkicker but when I graduated BMT and I hadn't received any training on combat, or even what to do if the enemy shoots at you, I was like what the frick is this.

        >"b-but you got to shoot an M4 tho"
        -The MTIs (who are all morons btw)

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >family legacy
        The Military hates your legacy. They want immigrants, not you.
        >college credit
        College is a scam unless you get very specific degrees. Network instead.
        >learn about combat
        Air Force will teach you how to help manage a base or fix planes, not combat.
        >travel
        Go to backpacking in Europe like a sane 20 something.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I've been in the AF for the past 3 years and its pretty much this.

          >family legacy
          Thats up to you. I disagree but I'm not you

          >college credit
          If you actually meant college credit than you will get 1/3 of some fricking associates degree in the AF community college. Good fricking luck unless you use tuition assitance to go to school online or wait until you get out to use the GI bill

          >learn about combat
          haha lmao no. You're gonna be a pencil pusher or a wrench turner, theres a .5 out of 10 chance that the wrench turner gets trained in expeditionary skills in order to enable sorties in an austere enviroment but thats only gonna happen if you suck dick for 6 years.

          >travel
          Depends on the job. Whatever you do DO NOT sign a 6 year contract because your recruiter tells you its nessicary to go overseas.

          t. c-130 crewchief, I hate my life and I hope I'm dead before I turn 30

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            And yeah I'm pissed off and salty. I am absolutely seething but dont you dare accuse me of cope. I got a 93 on my ASVAB and I fricking clean the cargo bay of planes for 10 hours a day.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              with a tooth brush I might I add

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              with a tooth brush I might I add

              Lol. Why do your NCOs hate you so much.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                They don't hate me. Thats just how Aircraft MX is. Everyone gets treated like shit. Jesus christ if they acutally hated me it would be far worse

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Why does the air force treat their mechanics like shit? I'm an Army Chinook mechanic (15U) and life is good. We operate with cool guy rules in aviation.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I knew a GWOT era Chinook dude and from what he told me his job was more similar to our special aviator AFSC or Flying CrewCheif duty, meaning he did MX but also got to fly and shoot guns.

                Regular ground MX especially crewcheifs just get their pee pee slapped over digital paperwork and get buck broken by production. I have no Idea why we're so ass. We share our strip with Navy AH-60 dudes and they love it. Never in my life have I been around so many misanthropic, rustled jimmies dickheads in my entire life (I am one of them)

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                I'm a Maintainer too, Hydro, I'm pretty spanking new but I've already had maybe 3-4 duties completely unrelated to my job and it aggravates me because I understand the whole "send the new guy" but when they ask me "oh whats this or that, how do you not have this!', dawg I've had damn near duty for 1 month and a half total

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                It's OK I guess. Don't believe people when they say it's unequivocally better than all the other branches since like and

                Why does the air force treat their mechanics like shit? I'm an Army Chinook mechanic (15U) and life is good. We operate with cool guy rules in aviation.

                said the AF still has to deal with bullshit. Still I fricking loved it until I became and NCO and don't actually do my job anymore, just paperwork so meaningless it honestly enrages me. I've had good units, bad units, good bases, bad bases. All told if you put me back in time to 18 I'd absolutely do it again. I own a home, have certifications, marketable experience and am debt free—but a lot of that will rely on you not being a moron, it ain't something the AF just hands you.
                You aren't going to learn shit about combat unless you get a very specific AFSC (DO NOT BEECOME SECURITY FORCES) or are deploying. One of my buddies is comm and still has a purple heart from getting hit with and IED while running convoys.
                As for travel, know how to play it. When I joined they just sat you down in basic, gave you a frickhuge book with places your AFSC can go and then gave you about 5 minutes to scribble down some of the bases available to you. Research your job and where it can go before you get in. If you're dead set on traveling, put Korea (Korea is fricking great) and Turkey (Turkey is absolutely not great) down as those are the overseas locations most likely to take people. Japan and Germany are what everyone wants and are therefore hard to get, but if you have space on your listing may as well put em down and see if you get lucky. Japan is great too, can't speak for Germany. I signed a six year enlistment and it worked out pretty well for me, but make your own decision on length. You know your own situation better than anyone else.
                When I joined, my high school teacher who was in the army told me "anon, the best and the worst people you will ever meet, it'll be in the military." It's held true. Learn to recognize shitbags fast and avoid them. They WILL drag everyone down with them if they can help it.
                Good luck anon.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Learn about combat
        Join AMC and uncle minihan will teach you all about lethality.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Join the Air Guard, go to college with an AFROTC.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          This is the way. Go be a do nothing AF lieutenant for four years, then you can put "muh veteran" and "muh officer" on your resume. You'll also earn slightly more than an illegal Mexican janitor.

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How much do you like sucking dick?

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >is it ok to join the air force at this time?

    AhHAHAHAHAHAHAH!.
    No.
    Hell No.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >is it ok to join the air force at this time?
    Yeah.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I would have joined the US Air Force if I were American, unfortunately I'm a Canuck. RCAF standards for pilots are way higher (especially for white males because of pilot diversity quotas) because we have so few working planes, and even if I do make it ill be stuck in some shithole like cold lake.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    flying is cool.
    so i would get a private license, or a commercial pilot.

    an air force pilot?
    no, frick off, its a death sentence 10 seconds after you enter enemy airspace.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The war in Ukraine has proven air force to be obsolete. It's rarely used by Ukraine or Russia, and even then with minimal effect.

    Drones & artillery are the future.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Obsolete
      Last I checked F15>Mig 29 and su27

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I can't believe the country with a tiny air force and the country with an incompetent air force are barely ever using their air forces.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you want to see action then become a commissioned officer fighter pilot. The officers risk their lives in the AF instead of the other way around.

    They call it the "chair force" because it's relatively cozy and not as demanding as the other branches. If you just want a nice job in the military it's a good choice, but if you want to see combat then would become a fighter pilot.

    Either way, make up your own mind. Also, recruiters tell lies, but if you really wanna join then just do it. If you really believe that you will be doing the right thing and fighting on the right side of history. Otherwise, don't.

    Whatever you end up doing, join the militia, whether you are in the military or not. That way you are truly fighting for America, not corrupt zionist politicians and the military industrial complex.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Not gonna lie. You had me in the first three-quarters.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    No you'll die at the bottom of south china sea

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Mercury is in retrograde so you should be fine.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The alternatives are just worse.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      navy looks good

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Just got out of UPT went AFROTC, don't recommend.

    Would not recommend for those reasons you gave, as other have said, the alternatives - good use of your time, capabilities and I would argue, life somewhere else.

    5 of my other friends, went towards commercial aviation, ATC and admin path in the aviation industry. All of them are already hitting great salaries, bonuses, experiences and living great lives.
    I want to fly an A10 and going to pursuit it but the burden of AF life and the doldrums of what the current state of the military does to your psyche, the FOMO and regret is real for how little I am actually going to do, how little I'm going to actually log hours and how small chance I will ever see combat or even experience anything for what the billions of dollars of training is procured for anymore.
    Also, don't take serious too much from Reddit threads about AF or commissioning, I've gotten more real advice and warnings from anons here.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Any idea you got a sense of how long OCS aviation packets take to go through?

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you want to learn about combat in the USAF you better 1) be able to make it through the pipeline for one of the cool battlefield airman jobs like CCT, TACP, PJ, etc. or 2) be Security Forces and hope you get a chance to do BDG or Raven

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know, does the air force's mom let you?

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I don't want to see combat, I want to do IT shit.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    it's always okay to join the airforce, no shortage of interesting things to do

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