US Air Force Reviews

Pros

This is a very very very good and decent place to work and learn while trying out new stuff.
Try it.

Cons

Boring place to work everyday

Advice to Senior Management

No I don't. Not sure where the path is leading.

Pros

Do something that not many people get a chance to do. Do stuff that most people only hear about in the news.

Cons

You will be away from your zone of comfort for a long time. When the Air Force wants you to do something, you will do it, no questions asked.

Advice to Senior Management

You are a team. This isn't civilian life. Look out for your airmen, find out what they do when they're not on duty.

Pros

You get to see other countries for free. You learn a lot and get great life experience while working full time.

Cons

If you get a bad leader you have to deal with that until your time to PCS comes or he leaves.

Advice to Senior Management

Everything is good. Perhaps don't focus on the bullets of an EPR or OPR so much as take a deeper look into the people you're promoting.

Pros

Health Benefits
Job Security
Equal pay charts and predictable promotions
Have the opportunity to serve your country
30 days of vacation per year

Cons

Job satisfaction
Creativity and contrasting viewpoints are not tolerated
Have little to no say over what career field you get, and changing career fields is not possible
There are some absolutely terrible locations you can be assigned to, and can't do anything about it

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your people, Unconventional and atypical ideas are not automatically wrong
Have the fortitude and personal courage to admit when you are wrong, no one is expected to be perfect
Stand up for your people- if you expect them to fight for you, why shouldn't you fight for them?

Pros

They pay me to work on very expensive servers. You would have to work hard to be able to do that in the civilian world.

Cons

Deployments can suck. Wen to afghanyland last year. wasn't the coolest place on the earth. But it was cool administering a network out in the middle of nowhere.

Pros

Benefits and working with some of the best people in the world. Travel opportunities and education. Fairly good job security.

Cons

Deployment tempo is high. Also, hours can be long at an operational base, especially in maintenance. Moving so often can be tiresome.

Advice to Senior Management

None.

Pros

The Air Force provides excellent career opportunities and advancement for those who wish to excel. The educational benefits are second to none and one of the many reasons people join our organization.

Cons

The Air Force moves you and your family around on average every 3-4 years (+ or -). There are times when you can be seperated from your family for extended periods of time.

Advice to Senior Management

I'm not in a position to offer advice to the leadership of the Air Force, I would only like to offer my sincere thank you for the opportunity to serve.

Pros

Pride, service, camaraderie, Compensation, Benefits

Cons

Ops tempo
task saturation
incompetence of peers and leadership

Advice to Senior Management

Help your excellent performers bring the rest of the substandard personnel up to standards or push them out, this will enhance your forces beyond reach!

Pros

Been in 21 years now and I have no regrets in that I have traveled all over the world and have been given some skills that I can now use in the civilian world.

Cons

If you are one that does not like to travel the don't join. If you don't like following orders from someone then don't join.

Advice to Senior Management

Pay attention to the people that really make it happen. Too many times, people get promoted because they were the ones getting most the face time. More than likely, these are the onse taking credit for someone else's work.

Pros

Benefits are amazing
Competitive, steady pay for young new officers
Tightknit community

Cons

Loads and loads of government red tape and beaurocracy - this is what I hate worst about it.
If you find out you don't like the job you can't just quit - you must ride out your commitment time.
**Job specific** As an intel officer, I sit in front of a computer nearly all day in a building without windows. Worst. Feeling. Ever.

Advice to Senior Management

Certain leadership needs to eat more humble pie. But that goes with every large corporation structure I suppose.