Materiel Management in the Air Force: What's it like? | Elora Jean 

Daniel T thanks for the good catch!

Daniel, my oldest son is deciding between Materiel and Traffic management..with all your experience, which of the two would you say is more geared towards Amazon, UPS fed ex supervisor/manager civilian jobs after service? Not many vids really explaining these two..thank you

@@oldhead_ probably material management after all it technically is supply chain management

I knew her too! Met at tech school when she was in her first AFSC

Cynthia Wow thats so awesome!

Miranda Pygott what is a paralegal?

@@amyjudith4473 a person trained in subsidiary legal matters but not fully qualified as a lawyer.

I'm so happy they're helpful to you! That's the whole reason I'm making all of these haha

Elora Jean update! I just got a call from my recruiter! Leave date is September 18! AHHH! I’m so excited and nervous! 😩

Thanks! I'll try and find someone :)

The Air Force is a smalllll world haha

I knew her at Keesler too when she was ATC!

I'm planning to!

Thank you!

Where did they deploy you? Can you chose what base you want?

LITTLE BROWN DOLL was that your number 1 choice & how long did it take for you to get it because this my number 1 pick and hoping I get it

Not Chris I got it they just gave it to me

bang bang niner gang wow 😭 when u leave?

How do you like the job?

Octavia says she thinks they're similar, just different items. Her average work hours are Monday-Friday 7:30a.m.-4:30p.m., although she says this can change depending on the base. Some of her coworkers work nights in addition to days, known as swing shifts, so it all depends.

Elora Jean thank you that is very good to know!

You are very welcome. I actually have friends here on base that are client systems that I can hopefully connect Elora with. Fingers crossed!

I can try! I don't think there are any where I'm stationed though :/

Weather is here

I'll have to start branching out and finding people in more jobs! Lol I'm slowly realizing how tiny my group of friends and connections is hahaha

I'll have to try and find someone who knows about the reserves...because I don't know anything about it lol

Hi noone, I should first note that there are 3 total school houses. The first one is kind of like IT 101 basics. I would say that I didn't have any IT experience before entering that tech school, but the first school house, if you study efficiently enough will lay a strong foundation for Client Systems. The second schoolhouse is AFSC specific and the third one is Security Plus. I highly recommend that you start studying for Security plus now, and maybe work with your recruiter to take it now. I have known few people that took Security plus before entering BMT and they only had to do the 2 school houses before graduating. Have it saved them a lot of stress and time and allowed them to focus more on learning their job. If you are a fast learner I definitely recommend trying to take it before BMT to alleviate any additional stress in tech school and allow you to focus on learning your job. Some books that I have know to work are any Gibson books and/or Sybex (Has a lighthouse on the bottom). As for your last question, I failed security plus 3 times. My command and I felt that because this was my second AFSC tech school to reclass me due to my good behavioral record. Being able to get reclassed twice rarely happens and i am extremely blessed to have had a strong group behind me pushing for the reclass because the other option would've have meant getting kicked out of the Air Force. Hope I answered all of your questions :) -Octavia

Depends on the job you want to retrain into.

I know a few people who enlisted later in life! You can definitely do it. The only thing you may not like (if you go Active Duty) is having to live in the dorms, since there isn't an age restriction. You may be able to argue that you've lived on your own before and are financially responsible, or even ghost if you really wanted to, but that's the biggest thing I could see you not being so happy about.

I’m currently in the process of enlisting and I’m 38 😊 Never too late to live your dream and reach for the stars!

@@tiffaniacarter2217 I'm 35 1/2. Swearing in Reserves tomorrow.

I was with a 36 year old in my flight during boot camp and he was a beast. Everyone in my flight were battlefield airmen (special forces candidates) including him so everyone in our flight were scoring in the 90s, but this dude got a 100 on all of his pt tests and scored the highest out of all of us even though he was the oldest one. We had another guy in our brother flight that was 33 years old. Both these guys were competing with each other and no one can keep up. Just make sure you train your body well before joining and you will make it.

Awsome! Swearing in next week😲😀 I'm32, married no kids but maybe in a couple yrs! I heard we just gotta train a lil harder b4 we head out to basic, (since most of us in our 30's snap,crackle and pop if we don't stretch out 1st lol)

Yes, she works on base. Everyone's jobs will be on base primarily!

Elora Jean such a silly question 😂🤦🏾‍♀️ but thank you(:

Jessica A everything

All bases

Everyone have CDCs! Octavia had four volumes, and I had six technically, only because my career field is merging photojournalism and broadcast journalism together and I had to take both (three and three).

Elora Jean thanks I appreciate it 😊

I believe operations management is an umbrella field for things like materiel management, emergency management, etc. If I'm not mistaken, you don't really find out what you do until you go into tech school...but if you search the career in Reddit's Air Force thread, you can find out some more from people who actually are in that career.

I was told a 44, but I would shoot higher so you can qualify for more than that!

I'll try!

I'll try!

6C0X1, one of the best career fields in the Air Force.

I am a Contract Specialist at the same base as Elora Jean is. I can answer some of the questions you have about the job if you'd like. Just been in for 2 years but I will be honest with you, there still so much for me to learn. You need to learn a lot about the FAR (Federal Acquisition Regulation) and be very good at paying attention to detail when it comes to this job. A very hard job to get into but once you get the hang off it the job doesn't get any easier, just gets easier to learn even more things about contracting.

HewantsmokeTV no

I entered the DEP in the beginning of the year, around February, and I got my photojournalism contract in June. It doesn't take that long for everyone though, and plus I told my recruiter I wanted to wait a while until after summer

Cyber surety? Like cyber security?

yes ma'am !

Yes, I agree!

I never knew either!

I couldn't tell you, because I'm unsure honestly, but a lot of the jobs in the Air Force have highs and lows when it comes to manning and I'm sure this is just the same.

I got PRK! My recovery hasn't been that bad, thank goodness haha

Elora Jean I didn’t get any medicine for the eye pain so my experience was horrible! 😩 glad you’re doing fine though!!

My friend is a linguist, shes at tech school in california atm

Natalya Carvajal that’s one of my top jobs!! Hope you get it girl!

Did you??

19!

I already did an interview with security forces! You can find it uploaded on my channel in the Air Force playlist.

Elora Jean I saw the video! Thanks so much for the info you share! It is absolutely helpful :)

She has pretty normal hours, like 7-4. Monday through Friday! But not everyone in her office works the same hours, some have odd ones.