[Starfox101]

I am enlisting as soon as I decide on a job, and am just curious on what jobs are actually the best. As we all know, the recruiters make the jobs that suck sound good, and make everything seem great. I have also yet to decide on what I want to do, however I am considering the following:

1. Air Traffic Control Operations Apprentice
2. Airborne Battle Management Systems Apprentice
3. Aerial Gunner Apprentice

[tohon]

Not a member, but I almost signed the papers to be a loadmaster.

[Starfox101]

tohon, on Feb 18 2008, 08:45 AM, said:

Not a member, but I almost signed the papers to be a loadmaster.

No clue what that is.

[SilverHawk]

I am currently a 1C151. (Air Traffic Controller Journeyman) It's one of the better MOS for outside employment after your enlistment is up. But the hours are long, stress is high and advancement is slow. But I enjoy it either way.

[Thomas Jefferson IV]

SilverHawk, on Feb 18 2008, 05:31 AM, said:

I am currently a 1C151. (Air Traffic Controller Journeyman) It's one of the better MOS for outside employment after your enlistment is up. But the hours are long, stress is high and advancement is slow. But I enjoy it either way.

I heard that is if not the most, one of the most stressful jobs in the world.

[Starfox101]

SilverHawk, on Feb 18 2008, 11:31 AM, said:

I am currently a 1C151. (Air Traffic Controller Journeyman) It's one of the better MOS for outside employment after your enlistment is up. But the hours are long, stress is high and advancement is slow. But I enjoy it either way.

How come it is so stressful?

Also, do you know anything about USAF Military police?

[SilverHawk]

My father was SP before he became a NBC Specialist (Now Disaster Preparedness) and it's quite another rewarding career track if you actually want to see combat and don't want to be a PJ or Special Forces. Though your Tech school is right at Lackland, so while everybody else gets to go to different bases, you're stuck at the same strip of dirt you have been for the past 8 weeks.

Stress of being an ATC comes mostly from the realization that you are first on the !@#$ pole if something goes horribly wrong when you are on duty. If it concerns aircraft and any location remotely close to the airspace you oversee. But it's offset by the fact that the speciality being so small, that ATCs form a brotherhood of that like Airborne or Rangers and will cover and stick up for each other. (Specially when we have to humiliate the Flightline Boys in Base Sports!)

[Air4ce1Jr]

Never applied for any of those Jobs, but recruiters aren't all bad. plus the Air Force is the best anyways

[Xiao Weng]

Starfox101, on Feb 18 2008, 02:43 AM, said:

I am enlisting as soon as I decide on a job, and am just curious on what jobs are actually the best. As we all know, the recruiters make the jobs that suck sound good, and make everything seem great. I have also yet to decide on what I want to do, however I am considering the following:

1. Air Traffic Control Operations Apprentice
2. Airborne Battle Management Systems Apprentice
3. Aerial Gunner Apprentice

Pararescue. Green feet have all the fun.

IIRC, #2 is an AWACS job and #3 is fairly self-explanatory. I'd stick with one of those, as being the guy in the tower if a '22 farks up is not something I'd look forward to.

[King C]

GEE!!

Gunna be after college. Don't know what I gunna do, BUT I GUNNA LIKE IT!

[Chron]

Ive a bit of work to do before I go in officially, but when I ook the practice test I was reccommended for Linguistics, or something along those lines. Crazy.

[Kaiser]

Become #3 as it sounds the most cool.

[InjunJoe]

If I went enlisted in the Air Force Id be a PJ

[Deepthinker]

My fiance is going in.

[Red Dragon]

Starfox101, on Feb 18 2008, 01:02 PM, said:

How come it is so stressful?

Also, do you know anything about USAF Military police?

u've got lives on your hands all day, and one slip up could kill someone and be all your falt

airtraffic controlers have the highest suicide rate of all professions

[Dennis Von Bremen]

Air4ce1Jr, on Feb 18 2008, 08:21 AM, said:

Never applied for any of those Jobs, but recruiters aren't all bad. plus the Air Force is the best anyways

I think if I would join the military it would be in the air force, though only if I can become a fighter pilot, that would be awesome... though obviously it would be hard as hell to master. But I am not planning on joining.

[SilverHawk]

Red_Dragon, on Feb 18 2008, 11:22 PM, said:

u've got lives on your hands all day, and one slip up could kill someone and be all your falt

airtraffic controlers have the highest suicide rate of all professions

I thought that was dentists?

I was thinking of cross-training into AWACS Duty after 4 years as an ATC though, mostly for my sanity.

This post has been edited by SilverHawk: 19 February 2008 - 03:00 AM

[King Comm]

What does it take to become a Joint Tactical Air Control in the US?

[SilverHawk]

I don't recall, not really interested in become a FAC or "Weather" Man. But there's less cross branch work being done because of the digital networks going up.

[Starfox101]

I think I might just do Military Police or Aerial Gunner. >_>