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If you want to begin as soon as possible:Talk to a recruiter when you’re 16, then you’ll be ready when you’re 17. Talk to them about the loopholes of “delayed enlistment”. It might get you on the waiting list now if you must be 17 by the time you start active duty.Select an AFSC. Use a list like this What Are the Air Force Enlisted Jobs? to see what interests you. Think of several. Each one has many sub-specialities. Don’t forget to find a job that will port easily over to the civilian world. United Airlines doesn’t have a big need for bomb loaders.There are AF jobs few people know about:Our base had an indoor olympic-size swimming pool. Seldom crowded. 3 guys staffed it. One was also the lifeguard and his uniform of the day was just an AF blue Speedo with “USAF” and a set of small Airman stripes under it, embroidered in white. His E-2 rank gets paid just as much as the E-2 Marine on a muddy 15 mile run with a full 50lb pack.You can get into media such as computer graphics, video production and SLR cameras for USAF advertising and training, flying around to various bases.Do some homework. All AF bases have a “Public Affairs” office. They (or someone they know) can arrange tours of the base. Your recruiter should be able to arrange one for you. Let them know what area you’re interested in and they’ll try to include it in the tour. Unless it’s a secure place, it shouldn’t be a problem.How do I know? One day, I met with someone on base and he thought I was funny and good with people, so he arranged for me to be a tour guide, something to volunteer to do on weekends to break up the boredom. The PA would arrange for people around the base, ata specific time, to demonstrate where they work, like Search & Rescue, flight line fire fighters, fighter pilots, etc. All I had to do was be on the bus, tell their driver where to go and field questions within the bus and point out the obvious. I didn’t get paid extra, but I did make many more friends on the base.Once you know the AFSCs you like, ask the recruiter for the opportunities within those fields (i.e. Weather Equipment tech on the ground or in the air, two different jobs). Find several you like.There is a slight difference between the branches; in the AF, your job is your job (people in other branches won’t believe you). There may be an occasional weekend base clean up or march in a local town parade, but you don’t shoot guns unless that’s your job (i.e. SP - security police). The only exception is if the Russians are barging into your office to steal your desk lamp, then you may defend your location, but you’re not expected to be proficient in any other job like scraping boat paint or swabbing anyone’s deck. Ok, maybe if you spill your Pepsi next to the printer.Here’s the tricky part; Ask the recruiter which of those has the highest need (greatest number of openings). That will make him smile. His job is to fill those spaces. He will try to steer you to what the AF’s greater needs, such as an aircraft mechanic. Resist him and stick to what you like. Even if you must wait a few months for an opening, stay firm. Waiting those few months will define your next 4 years (at least).If you do what you like, it’ll never feel like a job. I don’t care what they say, Trying to loosen a stuck bolt under a hot metal plane, on a 100° black tarmack, no breeze, under the cloudless sun, feels like a job. Find a job with air conditioning that you can pursue when you leave the service.Everyone fills out a “dream sheet” where they would like to be based. Being new, don’t expect much, it’ll probably be stateside. But, you can increase your odds by clustering your choices to one state or region such as 1. Northwest US, 2. Washington (state), 3. McChord AFB. You’re young, now’s the time to travel. Don’t select any places close to home. Everyone else will have wild fantasy places. Yours will stand out because it will be easier to fulfill. There’s more to my story, but I’ll leave it to that. All vets have good “war stories”, even if they never saw battle.Warning recuiter-talk ahead: After your 4 years, you, your spouse (any gender) and dependents (till age 18) will get free medical care for life including those expensive meds. Screw what they say about the VA, my local clinic and hospital have been incredible. I don’t think I’ve had to wait more than 10 minutes beyond my appointment time. It’s only if you don’t make an appointment that you have to wait; it’s triaged, then they go by numbers. If you sprained your wrist, you may have to wait. If it’s an emergency, you can go to ANY emergency room near you and they will take care of your expenses.Another advantage is when/if you are discharged after 4 years, your friends will have graduated. Don’t fret, they will be competing amongst themselves. If you and your college friends place your resumés on a manager’s desk, he’ll flip through them very fast, “grad media arts-no experience”, “grad media arts-no experience”, “USAF SGT, 4yrs experience, 4K & 8K video production, managing audio dept.” You’ll have your own car and apartment by then. They’ll have a cot in their parent’s basement and a massive school loan debt.You can “retire”, getting a percentage of your highest pay. After… 10yrs 25%, 20yrs 50%, 40yrs 100%. Let’s do some math, after 20 years, you’ll be 37 (17+20) and receiving 50% of your pay for life. You could easily get a management job to add to that, and you won’t need to pay for medical insurance. Don’t forget, free meds and care as you get older.>> Most importantly, DON’T RUSH IT. They need you much more than you need them. Find something that YOU love; not what your mother likes, not what your dad did in the military, not something that will impress your girlfriend, not something that will impress your boy friend and definitely not your recruiter. Nothing is permanent, but you should, at least, be happy and have fun during those 4 years.

Permanent Change of Station is system that in general functions like the promotion system. Someone in a certain career field/MOS at a base leaves either the base or a manning slot due to promotion, separation from the service, or retirement. The detailer of the career field looks at the requirements for that slot (rank, skill level, etc) and selects a person to do a PCS and fill that slot. Of course this leaves another vacancy, so wash and repeat. Eventually the retailer runs out of matching ranks and drops down one to find the needed body (except for certain specific positions, a slot can be filled by a rank one level lower so the detailer looks for someone who appears promotable). At some point he gets down to the lowest ranks and the driving force becomes how long the body has been on a single base. The military doesn’t like “homesteaders” and try’s to ensure they don’t stay at one base more than 3 years, at least that was true in the AF when I was active duty.A second driving force is overseas assignments. Again for the AF during my service, the AF generally kept accompanied tours (if you have family they accompany you) to a 3 year limit and isolated (unaccompanied) tours to one year. Additionally, they tracked overseas tours as to how many a member had been on, how many were long tours and how many were short (isolated). They, to the best they could and still satisfy the needs of the service, tried to alternate between the two. For example if your last tour was an isolated one, they wouldn’t select you for another unless everyone of your rank and career field had been on an isolated tour more recently than you.The AF asked you every time you transferred to fill out a new “dream sheet” it was not a requirement, at least at that time. On your dream sheet you place your preferences for CONUS assignment. It could be an area(eg southwest), a state/s, or base/s. I believe the states and named bases were limited to five. You also could provide a list of preferred overseas assignments. I believe this was limited to a specific country/s and theaters (eg Pacific). I don’t remember being able to ask for specific bases.I don’t recall the rank required but some commanders could ask for an individual by name.You could call your specific detailer (I would guess today you could use E-mail) and ask about what projected vacancies were coming in an area. If something fit your desires and you qualified for it, you could submit a request/volunteer to fill that assignment.

In a way, I had my practice session for this quarantine last February. I fell and broke my ankle. I spent months on the couch and resolved that I was going to monetize my time and turn it into passive income. It's actually worked out.So here's the question for you: are you a decent writer? Do you have experience writing essays for school, say? Then: Do you have an area of expertise, research or life experience, something that would be of use to others? Are you a voracious reader and learner? Do an audit. What do you know how to do that could be useful to others? Could you write about itIn my case, I used some of the time to learn about publishing on Kindle and the rest of the time writing books. In the past year I have published seven books on Kindle and until the coronavirus kicked in, I was earning $300-$500 per month. And I did not spend money to make this happen except for a few dollars that I spent paying Pressbooks to make a nice format for the book and a few dollars for my canva membership which I use to design my own covers for each book. No advertising. I use a free website. Writing a few blogs, making a few Facebook posts, and there you go.The key is coming up with something that people really could use. So you have to carefully look at your assets. You have to look at the competition. What's out there already? Once you start working on it, you might hook up with people who are also doing nonfiction writing, maybe find somebody through social media who you would read their work and they would read your work and give/get feedback. Or find somebody with an interest in your topic, through Facebook, and see if you can find a volunteer reader. In other words, I did not pay editors, designers, advertisers, marketers. It's been a really fun project and now that I'm back in quarantine with the rest of the world, you can guess that there's more writing to do!In my case, I have a long-standing interest in and professional relationship with the field of psychology. I also got very excited about the work of Jordan Peterson and started writing about his work which I spent a long time studying. After a while, I realized that I had learned a thing or two about self-publishing so I published, "Selling Know-How: A Cheat Sheet for Publishing on Kindle."The good thing about publishing on Kindle is that the royalties are high: 70% if you price your book between $2.99 and $9.99. I have a book published by a scholarly publishing house and I get 10% for royalties. When you publish on Kindle, books are shorter. The book costs one third of a regular book but it's only about 100 or so pages. So, in a general sense, the project is easier. And your job is to come up with something super practical that really helps people. These days, people don't necessarily want to read the 300 page book with no stone unturned. They don't necessarily care about every reference. They want the bottom line.Remember, it doesn't cost anything to put your books up on Kindle. Let's say they don't sell like crazy. Let's say your ambition is to establish your credibility in your field, to do something impressive which gives you street cred. So put your time into preparing your book and maybe you're not going to put a lot of time into marketing it. Maybe you'll just print out a few copies of the print book, or I should say have Amazon sell you a few copies for a couple of dollars each, and hand them out when you interview for positions in your field. Doing this can work in your favour in a competitive marketplace.Or maybe your goal is to keep your kids busy. Maybe you want to come up with a publishing project where everybody does some research using the Internet and using the computers to come up with their chapters and mom's gonna be the editor and put this thing together. Maybe you had a family trip and you really learned all the ins and outs of travelling in a certain country. Why not work on a project?We will get to the other end of this. The question is: will you have something to show for your time? If you have literary interests, and you may if you hang out reading answers on this website and others, think about what you can do to keep busy and productive.