US Air Force – “US Air Force”

Pros

- Service to our country
- Unique career that crafts lifelong memories, good and bad but something to talk about
- Job security, decent pay, training
- Travel/live abroad opportunities

Cons

- Repeated extended deployments (6+ months within 10 months of each other) good for career but sacrifice family relationships
- Ultimately had to choose between family and AF (AF lost)
- Risk of injury (physical and mental trauma) and/or death

Advice to Senior Management

- The institutions of marriage and military life are colliding during this war. Find better ways to balance the two. I had to leave when my spouse lost confidence in AF promises. What's next? 12 months away/12 months home? During my career deployments went from 3 months, to four, then six. Frequency went from voluntary, to once every 18 moths, to 1:1. The worst part is many of these jobs have been to fix Army force mismanagement. Changing the names from ILO taskings to "JET" is an insult to our intellect.