Air Force Loadmaster station?
Does anyone know if loadmasters get stationed st Hickam AFB in Hawaii? I know they travel a lot and it's ideal for single airmen which I am. I was just wondering because I heard Hickam AFB is a great place to be stationed in the Air Force so I was probably considering Hickam as one on my dream sheet. Thanks for the answers!
Air Force Loadmaster?
As a loadmaster with terrible vision I can tell you that you do not need to have to have perfect vision. You can either wear gov't issued glasses or contact, and if you're lucky, you can even get approved to get the Lasik eye surgery. I've been a loadmaster for over ten years and it truly is the best enlisted job in the Air Force. I've been to over forty countries abd seen things people will never get to see in a lifetime. You job consists of load anything from pallets of cargo, to helicopters. You also shuttle a lot of troops in and out of the desert. It really is a fulfilling job, plus you get more pay than other enlisted jobs.
How hard is it to get Loadmaster in the Air Force?
What you need to understand, is AFSC's are competitive, only when more people want that AFSC than there are slots available. And yes, loadmaster is competitive, simply because so many people want that job. 2. Your overall asvab ( afqt ) score, has no bearing on job selection, it is only used to determine if you can enlist or not. 3. Your MAGE scores are what determines what AFSC's you qualify for. 4. Just making the minimum mage score, does NOT mean you can get a specific AFSC 5. All job slots are competitive, you are competing against everyone else who wants that AFSC With those with the highest MAGE score, being assigned the AFSC slots first. 6. Then you have to look at availability. MEPS only receives 40% of all job slots to assign, once they assign that 40%, those slots are gone, and then it doesn't matter what your scores are, if they are gone, they are gone., Basic training receives the other 60% of the job slots to assign.
What kind of math to you have to know to be an air force loadmaster?
First, get a GUARANTEED job!! Yes, you can, and they will, you just have to push a little. The reason they try and tell you to go "general" in a certain area, is it's easier to meet their quotas to fill jobs against the AF needs. As far as Loadmaster, yes you need to know math!! You have to balance loads, total weights, etc. But, the tech school will teach you how it's done, and at your first base you will have PLENTY of OJT. They aren't going to throw you out there all by yourself right away!
Questions about enlisting in the Air Force and Loadmaster questions?
okay. so my senior year of high school i decided i wanted to enlist in the air force. i blew off all the college crap and knew for sure that i was going to enlist at the end of that summer. i go down to my recruiters office to get things goin and the first day i took the little gay practice test, filled out some ****, and scheduled to take the real asvab. when i left, he told me to pick 5 jobs that i would want to do and my understanding was that: i would pick 5 jobs. and after signing my contract i would have to wait around until those jobs opened up and then i would leave for boot camp. but no. i come back today and all that bull seems to have changed. he's now telling me that i pick 5 jobs and sign my contract saying i will accept the first job that comes open, whether its my first pick or not blah blah blah. which is pretty lame considering i really want to be a loadmaster. then, to top that off, since i had a petty theft charge back when i was 17, (its off my record) that i am disqualified or some crap and that the only contract i can sign is one saying that i will take the first of the 5 jobs OR take some random *** job they give me, whichever opens up first. which is total bull. i wanna know: 1. why is this? 2. what are my chances of actually getting one of my 5 jobs that i picked and not some general labor one. or is my recruiter bullshittin me 3. what are my chances of being a loadmaster? im going to put it as number 1 4. was anyone else a loadmaster and was it their first pick, or what? 5. also. what if i filled my list with loadmaster and 4 other jobs that are super hard to get, would that make me more likely to get loadmaster? haha also any other stuff that anyone thinks i should know or somethin my asvab was 78. and everyones sayin its good and stuff, then why cant i be guaranteed to get a job as a loadmaster :/ really sucks.
Air Force: My ASVAB score was a 75. Loadmaster requires a general score of 57, and mine is 80. Do I have a better chance of getting the job?
I want to know if since my ASVAB score was pretty high for general, does this give me a better chance of getting the job I want? And since it's an 80, does this give me a better opportunity than those who have lower scores? I've gone through the MEPS process and all I have to do yet is pick my jobs and swear in.
What are the best enlisted jobs in the United States Air Force?
While I can't tell you for sure what the best job in the Air Force is, I'll tell you what one of the worst jobs you can pick.. Security Forces.You get sucked in by the recruiter’s action-packed security forces video of this prospective career fields exciting opportunities (taking down terrorists, jumping out of helicopters, riding atvs in the desert, etc). The job truly only entails sitting at a gate for 12–18 hours, or sitting in a truck on the flight line for 12–18hours. Or you could be sitting in a chair staring at a door for 12 hours. The more fancy and stress free office positions available in this field are available to the first woman that sleeps with the right guy or the first guy that kisses the most ass.My experience wasn't all that bad though, I got to work in an armory for about a couple years. The armory is where we kept all of our Squadron’s weapons. It was my job to maintain, inventory, and issue them out at shift change twice a day. There were only four of us, with our supervisor - that after 3 months upon my arrival, was replaced with a new one that would eventually become my best friend.In the armory, we were physically and metaphorically locked away and separated from the perils and misery of the rest of our squadron. It was the only place where leadership couldn't just waltz in. They needed us to open one of the only two huge steel doors to get in, or call us to open up the small window to talk to us. I saw it as a haven, and I took care of this place like it was my own home, and I saw each of the people I worked with as my family.Very quickly I became the the Assistant Supervisor and had say over the management of our inventory programs and procedures. For the first time in my military career, I was able to get rid of procedures that literally made no sense and caused our armory to be less efficient. Anybody that has been in the military knows your life is riddled with inefficient policies and instructions.This is getting long so Ill cut it short here. I got in to a shitty career field and was somehow lucky enough to make it to what I believe was the best job in the Air Force. Which was working in the armory of Yokota AB, Japan between 2012–2014