Military Members

[Murrdog9000]

@hybrdthry911

air force reserves here, but i work full time at my base as a civil service position. the 2 jobs are tied together, i must stay in the reserves to do it, so during the week i come in as a civilian(they make us wear uniforms which is bullshit), and i still come in once a month and 2 weeks a year on military orders. this is an Air Reserve Technician(ART) position. it gets a little tricky because of the dual status but ill just give you a general idea of the goods and bads of being an ART.

Im an Aircraft mechanic on the C-5 in the Aero Repair(heavy maintenance) shop. basically we work on all the flight control, landing gear, and cargo door systems. anything thats big or moves, we change, rig, and troubleshoot those systems. I love the job that i do, but you gotta jump through a hoop of fire just to do a job because of all the regulations and management. you need to get some experience as a reservist before you can become ART but i can get more into that if you want PM me. Overall it was a great decision, definately changed my life for the better.

The Good:
-Military education benefits
-can travel to places i choose sometimes for 2 week trips for work but most of the time you can see the surrounding area.
-I picked my base
-secure job: cant move me unless they close my base, or they change the planes we have at our base(id likely just work on those planes then), and even then they have to at least offer me another job somewhere. this is very unlikely though, and i could try to find an equivalant job somewhere i want before this happens.
-great benefits: lots of paid time off, about 75% health insuranve covered, pension(both a civilian and military, neither are huge but combine with each other and TSP it adds up), 5% matching Thrift savings plan(TSP) basically a 401k with many options from aggresive to conservative.
-excellent pay an ART starts at 27.51 an hour plus your military pay

The bad:
-obviously can be called up and sent anywhere anytime with as little as a 48 hour notice.
-most of your weekends as a reservist are doing stupid training like fire extinguisher operation and sexual harassment policy, so if you are just a reservist you will pretty much do jack squat.
-long term contracts(6 years)
-gotta give up one weekend a month, which isnt super flexible but can be rescheduled to another weekend if necessary.

Thanks dude! I wouldn’t mind looking into the airforce as well