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I made this channel to help inform people interested in joining the Air Force and entering the IT sector. I will be making videos based on my experiences and doing my best to answer any questions
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“TAKE WHAT YOU EAT-EAT WHAT YOU TAKE “!!! BMT 3273 FLT 035 Jan-Feb ‘83….It was all good back then..BMT makes you hungry!!!! Do they still have the “SNAKE PIT”? NCO’s watching you 👀
@@cybermikeofficial As I remembered,the food wasn’t too bad.You were hungry and you ate it…I also recall,I had KP once there,and me and other flight members had to clean that CHOW HALL!!!
Tech school at Lowry AFB in Colorado,March’83…had a great time and good memories of way back when…Obviously totally different then from now in so many ways
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Hey Mike! I'm currently in the process of joining the USAF myself. I'm going to MEPS this coming week and i'll be going in as an E3 and I've got my Security+ Certification ahead of time as well. I was hype to see Keesler was one of the tech schools i'll be going to for Cyber as I love the beach lol. How have things been going so far? Btw, You should definitely look into getting some Hey Dudes! They are awesome shoes and would be great to just wear casually when you need to wear them around the room or out and about.
Nice! Best of luck with it. Sounds like you're gonna be ahead of the curve in Tech School. I was there last year. Appreciate the recommendation! Those floors were disgusting.
We had someone in our class get a reduction in rank for providing alcohol to minors, then the Commander made him sew on his new rank that night. He then got in trouble for being out of regs with his new rank the next day.
It's a Tech School dorm, so I don't think we were even allowed to decorate it. Most tech schools are pretty short as well. I was only there for 3 months.
Maybe you mentioned this somewhere before, but what was your career path into IT. Also how does being in the reserves affect your IT career (promotions, etc.)
I'm actually gonna be putting out a video soon to talk about this. It was an interesting path, and I think a lot of people can relate. Legally, your civilian employer or potential employer can't use your military service against you. However, it's one of those factors where you can't really prove it if that's why they didn't hire you or give you a promotion. I'm sure it plays a role if you're disappearing for months at a time if you go on orders or deploy.
Good question. The area that I live in requires you to take a plane to drill if you're in the ANG. If there are weather issues, they require you to find your own way there and back. That would have been the main deference for me joining the guard. I didn't consider Army Guard, just Air Guard.
Thank you for your service. This is an Army base, and we had the same barracks as the Marines, Army, and Navy. I don't know what the dorms on AFB's even look like.
@@cybermikeofficial You must be new then. In my 10 years in the Corps, I never had decent quarters until I made Staff Sgt. and lived in Staff NCO quarters. Up until then, I lived in open barracks. The only personal space was within the confines of the position of wall lockers. Almost as bad as boot camp and ITR. But I am pleased to see things have changed for enlisted personnel quarters.
Cyber Mike, what was your AFSC? I feel like I’m a Few years too late. Everyone and their mother is trying to get into Cyber. Been in DEP for a month now waiting to hear if a Cyber job will open up.
Good luck! Anything Cyber related is highly competitive like you said. I was Pavements and Construction Equipment (Dirt Boy) for 4 years, but now I'm an Administration NCOIC.
Lol. Since your comment I just got a call to ship on the 17th for client systems which I think I’ll take. Seems like a bottom of the barrel job in tech support. But i have zero it or Cyber xp. I scored a 94 on the asvab and passed the Cyber test. Which feels like a bit of settling but I still think it’s the right move
@@nickcardona1059 Sweet! That gets your foot in the door. You'll obtain your Security+ certification in Tech School and you'll be earning towards your CCAF IT degree.
I went through USAF bootcamp from Sep 75- Nov 75. SP Tech School from the 2nd week of November till Jan 76. What I find different here is we never had 341's after bootcamp. Tech School was much more relaxed. Can't remember what the barracks looked like while I was at Tech School, but I do remember part of the training involved us to walk around static aircraft as Entry Controllers and Rear security. We even had an empty pad with no aircraft on it but had to pretend it was there. Strange stuff. We would joke back then about it being the first stealth aircraft or Wonder Womans invisible jet. And the 24-hour maneuver, at Camp Bullis. We spent like 2-3 weeks there and toward the end, spent 24 hours in fox holes. This was in like Jana 76, and it got cold as hell at night in Texas. Unless the temp went below 24 degrees, we sat out there trying to stay awake. Finally, about 2 hours before the exercise was to end, they called us all in because the temp finally hit like 23 degrees. And the crappy leather shell gloves with the wool inserts were for crap.
@@cybermikeofficial Honestly, boot camp and tech school were much easier, back then. Peacetime military after the end of Viet Nam. 20 years, never heard a shot fired in anger. Today, the training had to change to keep up with the times and threats we now face as a nation. I am proud of my time in the Air Force as an SP. But I am amazed at how well AF cops are training now, and amazed at how well they are doing. I retired out of Andrews back in 95 and would go on base quite often since I remained in the area till 2014. After 9/11, trying to get on base was time consuming and I didn't go very often. I had a job with another agency in the area and while still a cop we had our own issues with entry control onto the installation. And the face, if I road my motorcycle on base, I had to wear long sleeves and an orange vest. Eventually I went by the base often enough and enjoyed seeing how things were going. Lots of memories as a cop in the USAF. No regrets. Not even when I was stationed at Minot AFB ND for my first assignment after tech school. Yeah, got cold there.
When I went to my tech school in 2000 we also did not have 341s. It sounds like you were SF at the school house there right on lackland. I was involuntarily selected to be in charge of the flight during tech school.
There are quite a few Air Force Technical School Detachments on non AF installations. The Marines and Navy also train some of their troops at Fort Leonard Wood as well.
Nope, it's free. Assuming you're not prior service, otherwise you get per diem, and that would cover your lodging. Yes, there is an Army DFAC a few minutes away from the dorms.
I went through Security Specialist tech school at Lackland in 1983. They put us in the old WW2 buildings. The rooms were larger even for two guys. My room mate was recycled shortly after we got there and I spent nearly the entire time in a room by myself. If we wanted anything like TVs, refrigerators, or stereos, there was a lot of rent to own places around. I bought a personal cassette player (Walkman) and some tapes and listened to my own music.
Wow... BMT is soooo different from decades ago. Other than the first night at Lackland that went till about 3AM, then afterwards 9PM was lights out and up during the week at 5AM and 6 AM on weekends.
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lol idk why this popped up in my recommended but I just saw the date and you and me went though keesler at nearly the same time it’s really likely we may have ran into eachother at one point small world, I was 36th tho lmao
