I am making 4 or so videos of our time in training and in Balad, Iraq. It was a pretty fun time there, and we did outside the wire missions with the Army doing Patrols. Our squadron was the 532nd ESFS and we did Quick Response Force missions. I would like to hear what you think of it, although if you sit there and start making some arguements of the war, I will just delete the comment. Thank you and p.s. all these videos are of us, not another squadron or team
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@EricCris10sen I'm talking about TDY's and deployments. I have buddies that have been deployed twice already and gone on a handful of TDY's. On the other hand we have NCOs here that have been here for 10 years and have never done either.
BushyX 2 months ago
@BushyX Got to do shit? I was at a base where they give training to pilots. We had about 150 or so jets there. That's all our base was for. Nothing else. For the majority for my time there, I was flightline and gate. Same as every new person that gets to base. For 3 whole damn years thats all I did. I know you're trying to prove a point. And i'm not denying the whole "experience" of the Security Forces. It's fucking boring, but imo the low ranking airmen is what made it somewhat worth it
EricCris10sen 2 months ago
@EricCris10sen As far as nuke bases go, I know that the majority of teams out of tech school are in fact going to nuke bases. New guys are saying there entire teams were PRP. We just got a shit ton of people fresh out of tech school and are getting more soon. And a believe you that your base was nice, but you probably went to some PL3 base and actually got to do shit. My main point of my previous comment is to try other jobs out there before settling on SF.
BushyX 2 months ago
@BushyX It's because we're the police. That's the jiff of it. No one likes the police. And that's a definite no for the missile bases. You won't have a higher chance of going to a missile base than any other base out there. SF isn't the best job out there. That's well known. We get people who dropped out of other jobs. Or from people who got in trouble for whatever reason. My base was actually really nice. But hours were long, and the high ranks were complete fuckheads.
EricCris10sen 2 months ago
@Moviegirls789 Not to mention we work in ALL weather conditions. I have spent many days sitting in an up-armored Humvee with no air conditioning, wearing full ABUs and a ballistic vest with plates, in 110 degree heat for 12 hours. It is hot as fuck, and in the winter its the same thing but freezing. We get shit on more than any other job out there, when other jobs pull augmentee duty they can't believe we do that shit everyday.
BushyX 2 months ago
@Moviegirls789 Do not do it. I promise you you will regret it. There are so many better jobs out there. I will tell you right now that you will probably end up at a nuke base because that is where everyone is going now. Its boring as fuck, long exhausting hours, squadron leadership is retarded, and nobody likes cops. You might think I am exaggerating, but I wish I was. Security forces is one of those jobs that you have to get lucky with, few bases are good for it, most suck.
BushyX 2 months ago
@Moviegirls789 Yea, if you can put aside the b.s., you'll meet a lot of great people, and the job is actually fairly easy. I'll send you a message instead of on here
EricCris10sen 3 months ago
@EricCris10sen okay uhm im really considering this job...if i can put up with the bs it is fine? any tips to any pretraining i should do before hand? how do they decide your job in SF? if you suck do you get jobs like guiding traffic cause someone keeps telling me that?
Moviegirls789 3 months ago
@Moviegirls789 The job was fine. The way the higher ranks were running our squadron wasn't something that I, or most of us, believed was safe or in the mindset of helping us. Not to mention they would tell us one thing, and when we do it, they would get mad at us and say we can't do that. Every job has b.s. I just didn't want to deal with it.
EricCris10sen 3 months ago
@EricCris10sen what do you mean by bs? was it the job you did or the people? sorry im just trying to get as much info as i can! happy vetrans day and thanks for replying btw :)
Moviegirls789 3 months ago