I turned 18 about 3 months ago and I am interested in joining the air force (USAF). What will happen after I sign up? How long will I be in? What is the process? Will I be trained like in the 'movie ful metal jacket'? After training, where will I be sent? Do I have a choice of where I go? If sowhat are some good places to be stationed?
Ijust want to get all my facts straight before I devote myself to something so serious.
Help! Thanx!
2007-07-29 08:59:27 · 12 answers · asked by ozonesweep89 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
A recruiter can best answer most of these, but I can help with some general information.
After you do your initial paperwork, including a physical and your ASVAB test, your recruiter will have you select a career field you would like to try for. This somewhat determines when you will go to basic training, as it is scheduled so that your career of choice training will begin after Basic. As for how long you would have to serve, it depends, you can sign up for 4 or 6 years at first. The training is nothing like "Full Metal Jacket", although there is a small portion of Basic that does do "field" training. It would also depend on what you want to do as a career.
You have the chance to select where you go, but if the Air Force does not have an available position for you at the locations you list, then you would not be able to go there yet. The Air Force does try to match where you would like to go with what is available, but ultimately it is what is in the best interest of the Air Force.
My suggestion would be to try for somewhere in Europe or Asia at first. It is much easier to get stationed there early in a career, as opposed to later.
Hope this helps. If you would like more info or have more questions, let me know and I will help the best I can.
2007-07-29 09:22:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I doubt that Air Force Boot camp is anything line what was shown in Full Metal Jacket, not even Marine Corps boot camp is like that any more. After training you will be sent to your first duty station, and how the Air Force decides where to send you is not known to me. In the Navy we were given a list of places to be stationed, The order of picking assignments was determined by how well you did in school.
2007-07-29 16:08:22 · answer #2 · answered by Mike W 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just because you join the Air Force doesn't mean you will ever become a pilot - or come within 100 yards of a plane.
After you sign up, you will be sent for recruit training.
Most branches of the military have a couple of levels of enlistment... 2 years and up.
No, the movie "Full Metal Jacket" was about jet fighter pilots. Unless you have a college degree, your chances of being one of those is zip to none.
After training, you will be sent where they need you to go, when they want you to go and you will stay until they say you can leave.
Of course, you can put your choice of assignment down on paper. The likelihood of you getting that assignment is about 2% or less.....They will station you where they need you.
You are not going to college where requests are taken. You are joining the military. You have no choices once you sign your name on the dotted line.
2007-07-29 16:08:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
9 weeks of basic training. Full metal jacket is a marine corps movie, not the air-force. Depends on what your enlistment contract is for, will depict how long your in. In order to qualify for military benifits such as the GI-Bill and bonuses you have to enlist for a certain number of years. As far as where you will be sent and where you will be stationed depends on what occupation you choose.
The air-force basic training isn't very long, but the MOS schools can be quite long. I would recommend looking into the Marines, or Army before joining the air-force, unless your into electronics.
2007-07-30 00:00:05 · answer #4 · answered by Bill S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Full metal jacket was about marine boot camp, which is a far cry from air force training. Air force training is by far the easiest training in the military. A lot of your questions can accurately be answered by todaysmilitary.com. And all of your spelling mistakes can be corrected at dictionary.com.
2007-07-29 16:59:33 · answer #5 · answered by tcbcyg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, you must see a recruiter. After pre-qualifying questions successfully answered, comes the paperwork.
If you haven't taken the ASVAB test, the recruiter will get you a time and place to take the written test (multiple test that measures your aptitude to do certain kinds of job skills) This test measure in four areas: Mechanical, Administrative, Electronics, and General Area.
Then next step is the MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station). There you'll get a physical and talk with an Air Force Liason. Here you'll be able to pick certain jobs or choose to go into open specific area (like open electronics, mechanical, etc.)
At the MEPS, if you choose to enlist, you'd sign a contract, say I swear, go to basic training the next day. (The signing and swearing may occur within six months--known as Delay Entry Program. This may occur because there's a wait when basic training and/or tech school starts).
Next is Basic Military Training (BMT). Currently, BMT is six weeks long (goto www.airforce.com for more info). BMT is nothing like "Full Metal Jacket". It's almost like a very strict Boy Scout Camp. The purpose is, of course, to train you in the Air Force way. BMT is at Lackland AFB, TX in San Antonio, TX.
At BMT, you'll get a chance to pick your jobs if you went in open area. You'll also get a chance to pick your assignments; however, the needs of the Air Force comes first--Best of Luck in this area.
After BMT, you'll go to tech school (what everyone calls it for short--Technical School training). Tech school is your job/career specific education. However long your tech school is you'll be in a semi-training environment similiar to BMT.
Towards the middle of your tech school training, you'll get your assignment.
Finally, after graduating tech school, you'll go to your first Permanment Change of Station (PCS) (to your first job assignment).
Best places to be assigned, depends on what you make of it. Personally, I was never a home-body, so I enjoyed overseas assignments. So I never had asked for something close to home. However, BMT will break you, and you might wish to get station as close to home as possible. ...Then again, maybe you won't.
2007-07-29 16:28:51 · answer #6 · answered by bhadams1 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Have you even googled this? I know you are probably going to talk to someone in the air force but it's kind of far fetched. I would also like to remind you that the airforce isn't going to enlist someone with virtually no education and/or work history to fly multi billion dollar planes.
Good luck! Check out the link!
2007-07-29 16:09:12 · answer #7 · answered by Sarah C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
okay wait..since when was the movie "full metal jacket" about jet fighter pilots?????????...this is the reason you CANT always get correct information...on some questions..everyone is an expert on any subject.....
2007-07-29 16:36:39 · answer #8 · answered by allen2859 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basic in the USAF is a cake-walk.
2007-07-29 16:08:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is why God invented Air Force recruiters.
2007-07-29 16:04:43 · answer #10 · answered by ? 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋