re: Best jobs in Air Force

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You have to be more than just in shape

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This.

For Pararescue you will go through extensive battlefield medical trauma training. That takes smarts as well as nerves.

For Combat Controllers, you need to be technically inclined-i.e. good at setting up, maintaining, and repairing electronic devices. One of their main missions is dropping in behind enemy lines and setting up forward air bases. That means getting the equipment set up to be able to support friendly aircraft (far field monitors, localizers, glideslopes, portable TACAN's, and TRC-182 radars).

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Work as an analyst in the CIA, maybe?

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That's where many of the graduates wind up, yes.

My dad was a Thunderbird.

Maybe he should start there?

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Ok. How do we know OP's son is not smart and doesn't have ice running in his veins?

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I never said that he didn't.

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You just made a CCT's job sound like installing a VCR or cable box.

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Believe you me there is a LOT more to it than that.

And before you ask, no, I was not in any Air Force Special Forces. I did try out, in week 3 (if memory serves-this was 25 years ago after all) of basic training, and I failed miserably. I did really good in the two swim tests, but finished last in the run (bad ol' football knees).

However I did spend 4 years in the AF working in airfield systems maintenance. I guarantee you these things are far more complicated than working on a VCR or a cable box.

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Yeah; but he got there. And to get there he went through: US Army: jump school US Army: HALO US Army: HAHO US Army: SCUBA Sure I'm missing a few. But he's essentially schooled now with a Delta operator. Dude is a stud warrior, I'm sure.

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Actually he's only been to jump school and sere. You have to do is finish ATC and CCT school along with jump and sere to get your beret.

The you go to hurrby for 5 level training which then you go to AF dive school not army scuba, and army halo.

It's an impressive feat however you get there; but an opportunity to get the best schools in the military, must be a great feeling.

My hat's off to your friend.

God bless him.

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Look, I'm not going to argue the jobs and what each entails. We all know what their job occupation is here.

Being a little older, I've just never understood telling someone younger not to do something because it is physically and mentally tough to do.

I'd do the CCT and ATC for a while and then play allot of golf!

Lmao

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frick dude, I wasn't telling him not to do it!

Christ, it's xmas night and I'm a bit plastered. I'm sure all of our judgments are a bit...alcoholically tainted. Lets just shake hands and leave off of it, eh?

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And before you ask, no, I was not in any Air Force Special Forces. I did try out, in week 3 (if memory serves-this was 25 years ago after all) of basic training, and I failed miserably. I did really good in the two swim tests, but finished last in the run (bad ol' football knees).

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My TACP selection class started with 45 guys and just 20 made it in one week.

Of the 20 of us who got to attend the course like 8 made it all the way through.

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My TACP selection class started with 45 guys and just 20 made it in one week.

Of the 20 of us who got to attend the course like 8 made it all the way through.

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When we were doing the initial test only one guy made it through. He was the son of a Navy enlisted man (I don't remember his job) and a Spanish woman whose father was a soccer player. They met when he was stationed at Rota NAS. It was so funny listening to him speak to all those Puerto Ricans and chicanos in Spanish that were in our basic training class, because this dude looked like he was a posterboy of the master race. 6' tall, blonde and blue-eyed.

What was even funnier was that he told them no, that he didn't want to do it. When he got back to the dorm and told us, he said that the SMSgt PJ that was running the tryouts took him aside and dog-cussed him for everything that he was worth.

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Why not just Army in that case? AF will always be the little brother to the Army on anything ground-related, even more so than the Marines are.

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This post is pretty well, ignorant.

PJ training is some of hardest in the US military.

Not to mention different functions and mission sets than most of the the Army or Marines. PJ's are not infantry troops.