A talk with an Air Force Recruiter

[Frankychan]

On Wednesday (today's Monday) I have a scheduled interview with an A.F. recruiter. I gotta bring my high school diploma, college diploma, SSN card, and birth certificate.

Why? Cause over here my options are running out extremely fast. I'm not getting any younger. I want and need training. Personally, I got in to my field to serve others and I think that this might be the shot that I may need.

My cousin, an Army HazMat firefighter recommended me to join the AF 2 years ago. I made a thread a while back about which branch of the Armed Services I should join...

Dunno what to say, really. I support the military but I hate the administration. I'd still go where-ever the military sends me and would do the job despite my personal feelings (ala samurai-style, baby). Jobs here are so "oh you need experience" but when I try and volunteer to places, they say that they don't do volunteer work.

I need out. I planned on going to the mainland, but I can't get a better job to get the money to get there in the first place....

...I figure the G.I. Bill will help me in getting my Masters degree. And the military experience will (hopefully) make me a valuable commodity here in HI.

I just want feedback on this. If the AF does accept me, I hope I can get out of here before November. Does anyone know the AF's recruitment strategies? Or does anyone know how the Armed Forces does this thing?

Thoughts appreciated.

[Sikander]

What do you want to be trained to do?

[Sprayber]

You should consider joining the Air Guard first if military service has you worried. Being in the Air Guard would be a bit safer than the Army Guard and you can get a taste of the military without the full course. If you like the life then you can always go active. That way you can get your training and still keep your civilian life going. It's the best thing to do if your just going into the military because you don't know what else to do. You have more options that way.

[SlowwHand]

I joined. There were circumstances, but I still joined.
With that out of the way and having been said, I wouldn't trade my time in.

Meet people you'd never meet and see places you wouldn't see.

[Donegeal]

What Spray said. If Hawaii has an Air Gaurd unit, try that first. You get the same experience with less risk. Not that there is much risk in the Air Force mind you, but whatever risk there is it will be less.

And of all the Armed Forces, if I had it to do over again, I'd go with the Air Force (I was in the Army for 12 years). Just remember this quote from an Airman I knew "I'm not in the military, I'm in the Air Force!".

[Japher]

I figure the G.I. Bill will help me in getting my Masters degree. And the military experience will (hopefully) make me a valuable commodity here in HI.

Sounds like you already found an means to your ends. The military has influenced a lot of ppl I know, it is definitly a character builder. If you can't think of any other way to get your masters (at least a way that you can live with) I say go for it with an open mind.

[SlowwHand]

The airman was in special circumstances.
Still the best. Army takes any worthless thing they can get.

[Frankychan]

hmmm, I'll talk to the recruiter to see if Hawaii as a Guard unit. I dunno...that sounds feasible. I got my degree in Psych and wanted to go into some kind of counseling or psychotherapy. But anything related to that would be fine.

I don't know if the A.F. has anything like that, but that's why I'm going to the recruiter. It doesn't hurt to ask.

What about the Montgomery GI bill? Would that be applicable to Guardsmen?

[Sava]

joining the armed forces

[Dis]

Sava

I say join the military as a last resort. If you can't make a career happen through college for whatever reason, then join the military.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Sprayber
You should consider joining the Air Guard first if military service has you worried. Being in the Air Guard would be a bit safer than the Army Guard and you can get a taste of the military without the full course. If you like the life then you can always go active. That way you can get your training and still keep your civilian life going. It's the best thing to do if your just going into the military because you don't know what else to do. You have more options that way.

air national guard? Like president Bush? Bush has given it a bad name.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Frankychan
hmmm, I'll talk to the recruiter to see if Hawaii as a Guard unit. I dunno...that sounds feasible. I got my degree in Psych and wanted to go into some kind of counseling or psychotherapy. But anything related to that would be fine.

I don't know if the A.F. has anything like that, but that's why I'm going to the recruiter. It doesn't hurt to ask.

What about the Montgomery GI bill? Would that be applicable to Guardsmen?

You already have a degree? Are you looking to be an officer then? That's the way to go. Do you have any kind of medical degree? You could get a job at a military hospital (mental health department).

If you have a degree I sure hope you aren't thinking about being enlisted. The pay sucks, and your options for job advancment after the military are limited. Except for hands on technical jobs of course.

Look into being an officer or chief warrant officer.

[Riesstiu IV]

Only commies join the armed forces.

[Dis]

speaking of: don't tell them you are a communist.

[Frankychan]

Originally posted by Dis
speaking of: don't tell them you are a communist.

I'm more loyal to my country than what most people believe.