I'll be shipping in November as an Airborne member of the USAF...

I'll be shipping in November as an Airborne member of the USAF. Anyone here with Airborne training that would like to share advice, experiences, stories, or opinions?

Yeah, retired 2 years ago.

When you get out of boot camp, you go to tech school, which is far worse an opportunity to fuck yourself over than either boot or active doody. Keep your fucking shit straight and on time or they'll beat the shit out of you and fuck up the next 6 years of your life. I've seen it happen.

Good to know. I worry a little about survival training, but only because I'm not a strong swimmer. Two months to work on that, I suppose...

I've worked with plenty airmen. if you literally swim in a little and run a little the you will do fine. airforce is not known for its physicality. focus on the textbook aspect and excel in that then you should be fine.

Several informational websites claim that flights are generally between once and twice a week. What are some things that are done during down time?

In the Marines, we would do basic shit. Sweep and mop the same floor day after day, clean up after ourselves. We always had broken stuff so we had to fill out paperwork to get it fixed if we couldn't fix it ourselves. Do some extra PT here and there. Random ass formations and safety briefings telling you not to rape anyone. And a lot of mandatory training. Like online classes and what-not. That's at least what is was kind of like in the Marines. It may be a little different in the Air Force.

>safety briefings telling you not to rape anyone
Is this really a thing?

Is this DumbRL tier trolling or they legitly think you are going around looking for your next rape victim?

>Despite military women being the biggest whores ever to exist

That was basically what we got out of it. Every time they would release us for the weekend. They always had to say "don't fuck anyone who is married or doesn't consent." And every time we had a safety briefing. We always had a 30 minute Sexual assault class and a 30 minute sexual harassment class. Death by PowerPoint.

>don't fuck anyone who is married
Completely understandable.
>or doesn't consent
Yup, DumbRL tier idiocy right there.

If boredom alone could kill nobody would enlist.

September here I'll grad when you enter see you there sneaker week probably

My brother deployed multiple times and trust me this shit is actually needed sometimes Overseas he said networks are restricted to the point where porn is almost illegal tempting many to do said things And tech schools holy shit underage drinking for days which result in " non consensual " sex

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Cool. Good luck to you through the BMT process!
What's your MOS? I'm sure I'll be jealous of those dress blues.

OP here. Going as 1A331, Airborne Mission Systems Operator.

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>underage drinking for days
You mean the listerine cocktail? Can you really get drunk on that?

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Great pictures!

1u0x1 sensor operator for rpa like the mq9 reaper. Thanks you too I may see you possibly in survival if that's still a requirement

>LostMyJobToday4
This picked my interest. What about the other 3?

USAF be some badass mofo!

just sluts on F-18's

Lmao I've heard stories galore but maybe that's changed in recent years. Vodka in water bottle packs and other dumb shit

dont call it mos, it's afsc

i was 2a8x2g, got kicked out in tech school for having depression. keep your mouth shut and you'll be fine. never accept an MX job unless you like long hours and being miserable

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Any other 1N4s?

Don't be a boot
Remember your chairforce

true balls of steel USAAF

Mate, why in the actual fuck can't you stupid fucking idiots get the difference between "your" and "you're"? Even if you are "saving the hassle" of writting the aphostrophe you still missing the 'E'.

Also, punctuations could be another improvement.

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