I'm a crew chief in the Air Force and I want to cross train to ANYTHING that doesn't involve maintenance!?
The other posters are correct that say you can't crosstrain until your 48th month (because you a six year enlistee). BUT when you make SrA you can put in for special duties that do not include maintenance. Look on the EQUAL-PLUS. If it were me, I'd put on my happy face and learn every last thing I could about maintenance. You need good EPRs for special duties. I'd also look at Palace Chase. Palace Chase is where you leave AD to go in the Reserves or the Guard. . . you owe the Reserves/Guard extra time. . .In the mean time, focus on your long term goals. . . save every penny you can, research your other opportunities so you are prepared, etc. @Planet What, "Don't tell me its a female thing etiher", there's nothing in her post that refers to her gender. I suspect you've been doing 12 oz curls this evening.
Advice of Air Force AFSC retraining or career path?
I suggest you just get out and away from the military. 1. No base is perfect, no job is perfect. I'm sure you could get your dream job and dream base and still gripe about something. 2. You're a SRA... get over it! You will answer to your superiors and to your TO at all times, because if you mess it up, someones life is at stake! 3. Arizona.. cold? Honey, come on up here to Minot, ND. Currently a warm and fuzzy (-10), and that's warmer than the temp on the flight line! Oh, and did they mention that you could get Minot with space/missiles? 4. EVERYONE deploys. You've been blessed for these first few years, but everyone is deployable, either in your career field or as an augmentee. Even our space folk deploy as augmentees. 5. Everyone would love a normal 8-10 hour day, even your commander and your chief. And their wives would love it as well. 6. As for special duty pay... only the fuel shop guys dealing directly with the hydrazine get that measly $150 a month. And for that I sent my hubby to work every day for 6 years, praying that nothing would happen and there would be no spills, while he lived day in and day out with those fuel bladders. So... best bet... get out! Quit and go find a nice comfy job in the outside world where they can give you all of that.
Air Force Integrated Avionics?
aircraft integrated avionics is an easy job from what i have seen. yes the tech schools are long and yes sometimes you work long hours just like all aircraft mechanics but it's an easy clean job. you are responsible for all the computers on whichever plane you get assigned on. there is very little troubleshooting and a lot of guess work. if a computer system isn't working you try to analyze the problem and try to get it working but if you can't come up with a solution then you start changing out computers and associated avionics equipment until it starts to work again. you can't open up any avionics equipment also called black boxes on the airplane to try to fix, all you can do is swap it out. all avionics black boxes need to go to the back shop for repair. like i said, i don't know why the schools are so long cause it's nothing but a guessing job. crew chief on -17
Getting married in air force to another airman?
Wait. Wait until you have spent some time apart and some time growing up. You said it yourself... you are not ready to be stationed together as you both want to enjoy your bases apart. When you are ready to be stationed together and you want that for forever.... then get married. As for getting stationed together.... you might get lucky and they may retrain one of you so that you are both assigned the same airframe. But, then again... they may not. Even if you do get stationed together... you will be working opposite shifts. They are not going to let you work the same shift in the same work area. Marrying another maintainer is hard enough, but marrying someone in the exact same career field make life very complicated. Regardless.... WAIT!!! Spend some real time apart. I'm going to assume you met during your first phase in tech school and then got separated due to airframes. Very few tech school marriages actually work out.
USAF F15 Crew Chief - Swings?
doh! Did you sleep thru Tech School ???!!! YOU need to inform your supervisor, chain of command! Don't go near a Jet or any other AF aircraft! We have safety concerns and don't want to jeopardize other Airmens (Pilots) lives !!
So is 2A5x1 - Aerospace Maintenance (crew chief) a "good" job in the AF?
When I talked to the recruiter and gave him my list of "dream jobs" he told me that all of those are awesome jobs and told me specifics about each one. I have googled this a couple times, and some people say this is an awesome job. While others say it is a real dirty job and it sucks loads. Can you go in depth and tell me about this job, and tell me stuff that the recruiters won't tell me about it.