US Air Force Reviews

Pros

Benifits and Stability. Education opportunities.

Cons

High deployment ratio. Overburden with policies and regulations.

Pros

Flying for the USAF was verydemanding but also very rewarding. The USAF is a great family. The opportunity for growth and promotion is excellent. The benenfits are excellent. You are giving back to your country!

Cons

The hours can be long. Seperation from family can be significant. You are apt to be on call or deployed for a good portion. of the time. You fly into the most adverse conditions that you could think of.

Pros

travelled all over the world and all over the U.S.

Cons

always moving from assignment to assignment, never get a chance to put down roots in 1 location

Advice to Senior Management

none

Pros

- Quickly receive relevant negotiation experience
- Structured approach to learning "fundamentals" of procurement
- Higher than average Job Security

Cons

- Higher than average Job Security creates complacency in some
- Upward mobility difficult in certain job functions
- Culture resistant to change and creativity

Pros

GOod Benifits and Pay to boot

Cons

HOrrible Work Hours that suck

Advice to Senior Management

Work With your People

Pros

The Air Force is filled with well-educated, committed people, and there are a wide variety of career fields in which to work. Jobs vary from lawyer to doctor to pilot to maintainer to finance to contracting to personnel (HR) and on and on. All the career fields needed to run a modern military organization. World-wide travel is available, as well as predictable, solid pay. There are good opportunities for advancement, and the retirement pay is excellent.

Cons

Working for the Air Forces is government work; therefore, there is always bureaucracy and the pay system is set. While the set pay keeps it from being lowered, unless you're demoted or disciplined in some way, it also prevents you from being paid more for more or better quality work. Working in the Air Force during times of conflict can be dangerous, but not as dangerous as the Army or Marines. If your supervisor is not the best, you're stuck with him or her, but only until your next assignment.

Advice to Senior Management

Work on reducing bureaucracy. Free up the creative personnel to take chances. Life and work and success are not all about following rules to keep people from EVER doing anything wrong; people will do wrong anyway, maybe more so, when too many rules run the operation.

Pros

- Job security...keep doing well and getting promoted and you can continue on.
- Great benefits...medical, education, shopping

Cons

- Officers have little say in where we go (reassigned) or how often
- When defense budgets suffer, so do the troops.

Advice to Senior Management

- I was management and our hands were tied. We did as best we could with the few resources we had. I think we were doing pretty well at taking care of our Airmen despite the many challenges we faced.

Pros

The Air Force is extremely challenging, with decent pay and oppourtunities for travel, advancement and change. Education is a plus. Training is always a high priority.

Cons

The work can be in dangerous locations where the locals do not want you. You are stuck with the boss you have, good or bad, until you move on to your next assignment.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep an open mind and get rid of the toxic self serving leaders.

Pros

See the world do things that you would never ever get to do in a civillian job. Great benifits and perks.

Cons

long deploymnets and long hours at times and the moving around all of the time is hard on a family!

Advice to Senior Management

Listen too your troops I cant say it enough, the people are the most inportant part in getting our machines ready for war!!

Pros

Can't beat the benefits for school, medical, dental. Post 9/11 GI bill can even send your kids or spouse to college for free!! I got a free Bachelor's degree & 2 Associate's degrees using the Air Force's Tuition Assistance program. I'm retired now & I have a pension & I'm only 38! I've traveled the world, etc, etc, etc.

Cons

Deploying to Afghanistan, Iraq, etc, but not as much as the Army or as long. Can't quit if you hate your job. Can't have individuality, as far as what to wear, hair color, haircuts, fingernail polish, piercings, tattoos that show in uniform, etc. You are considered government property.

Advice to Senior Management

Hold the dirtbags accountable for doing their jobs. Don't abuse the good workers, by expecting them to clean up the dirtbags' mess. We shouldn't be the same rank & someone is allowed to goof off, while I bust my butt, especially since we get paid the same!!