beezer1519

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well i'm going to start my journey in the air force reserve. i was wondering if there are any members on this forum who are in the reserves and stationed at Travis. not new to the military i was active duty army for a while. just wondering what to expect at in processing and how well the unit works with your schedule for you to go to your advanced training (ie heard i could wait up to a year to train). hopefully i hear from someone from this afb as i saw at least two camaro ss and a z28.

2002t/a06

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what is gonna be your afsc? i did my clinicals at travis a while ago and loved that place. Then i had to leave and come to this **** hole of a hospital.

beezer1519

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crewchief that's good to hear all the people their looked like they liked the base

2002t/a06

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cool, so you will be heavy airlift. yea i have a lot of friends their and they never want to leave. I hope i can pcs their sometime.

beezer1519

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sounds good what's your job and i hear the af is hella chilled compared to the other branches.

2002t/a06

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my afsc is 4N0. im an EMT-B and basically a nurse too. yea the AF is a lot more relaxed then the marines or army.

beezer1519

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that's cool and by the way what color is that on your t/a it looks sick.

2002t/a06

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Thanks a lot man, its maple red metallic. Seems like people either love it or absolutely hate it.

beezer1519

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yeah that's usually how all goes on this site lol but i think it looks sick

2002t/a06

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thanks man! so when are you gonna leave for basic? san antonio weather is gonna be hell compared to the awesome weather at travis!

edit- just saw you were active army so you shouldnt have to do the easy *** AF basic training lol.

beezer1519

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yeah lol i'll have to go to witchita i think for the first part of advanced then either to washington or back to travis for the other part, yeah i'm glad i don't have to go through basic again and i'm pretty sure i won't even be put in barracks with the peeps straight out of basic

2002t/a06

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yea at sheppard for tech school you wont be staying with the newbie airman in the dorms. Most likely you will be staying at the sheppard inn hotel as if you were TDY. Thats how it was when i was there.

PotentialZ28

Hey man, you know what side of the house youll be working on (C5, C17, or KC-10)? I was at Travis from 01-05 and would go back in a heartbeat. Depending on which airplane youll be working will depend on where you will go for school.

beezer1519

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kc-10

PotentialZ28

cool, i actually cant help you there

When i was stationed there, travis had its own "kc-10 school", so it was off to sheppard then to travis for the refueler guys

beezer1519

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how cool was the unit back when you went through there?

PotentialZ28

well, when i was there i worked AR shop (aero repair), so i worked both C5s and KC10s, loved every minute of it. As a matter of fact, i was going to ask how you know they were hiring, do they have a website? I get out in 8 months and would love to be an ART(air reserve technician) out there.

Kc10 flightline guys had it pretty easy, c5 flightline guys hated it, i loved AR though

beezer1519

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i'm not an ART i went through the recruiter and am in the reserves. later on down the line i'll try to get into an ART position.

BADFNZ

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I went through OTS with a former boom soon to be pilot from the KC-10 Reserve unit out there. I don't know any details but he said he loved it out there. I know they have the highest BAH rate of any CONUS AF base (unless that has changed).

beezer1519

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that's great i'd like to thank everyone for the info and if you have more keep it coming anyone know what inprocessing is like when you first go in?