I'm Munitions for the air force AKA AMMO...2WO. I like my job to an extent but it was not what I had hoped it would be. We deal with every munition in the AF's inventory as well as some joint navy munitions. It's a cool job but dangerous. One thing to understand about the maintenance career field is there are A LOT of guidelines. There are many procedures you have to go through and numerous publications to uphold and follow. I don't know how it is for the aircraft maintainers but this is how they do it in my career field.

Make sure you do some outside research (yahoo,youtube,google,wiki) on the job you want first before you sign on the dotted line.

Make sure you try to get a job that will benefit you on the outside, just in case the military is not your cup of tea.

Basic wasn't too bad. Keep your mouth shut and know your reporting statement will help you. Make sure you are doing some pt at the house as well. Other than that basic was pretty fun. Oh, eat rice when you can and peanut butter. It keeps the hunger feeling away longer. Your first week will consist of 5-30 seconds at each meal... 3 times a day.

At the end of the day you will be doing more than you have ever done before but it has it times and rewards. It's a steady pay check with health benefits and you have the opportunity to retire at a young age. Less than 8% of all Americans serve.

 

The higher you score on your asvab the better. Study for that. You can go on the air force website and they have practice tests their. I am an aircraft mechanic. 2A5x1. I work on c-5's, c-17's, and kc-10's. Love my job. I am heading out here in a month on my second deployment for the year. Talk to the recruiter and figure out what all jobs you want. Ask a lot of questions as well. Here is a list to go through of all the jobs to help you out.

http://usmilitary.about.com/od/airfo...s/a/afjobs.htm

 

Do it homie! I leave for bootcamp for the Navy in March. Best life decision Ive ever made...cant wait to start my life.

 

For sure there is a book and rule for everything, and that fits my OCD just fine. Gray areas exist for troubleshooting oddball avionics of course, but then I just roll with wiring diagrams spread all over.

Adrianspeeder

 

Actually that is one of the things I kind of miss about the military. They had a written policy for just about everything. If you are decent with your google-fu you can find just about anything you want to know on the computer in writing. In the civilian world there is a lot of verbal instruction without a lot of written guidance so everybody tries to do jobs differently. It can get very confusing.

 

Small world; I'm at Adder also, ha.