 I joined the Air Force because I wanted to just kind of get out of my little small hometown, explore, see what the world had for me. I'm a senior airman and I've been in a little bit over three and a half years. So the AFSC is OneCharlie3X1 and it is command and control operations. Previously it was known as command post. I got this job while I was in Denver. I didn't really know much about the job and sounded cool so I put it on my list and wasn't really what I was expecting it to be. I was interested in boom operator, load master, and special missions aviator. I signed a six-year contract, that way I could get an A1C when everybody left tech school. My tech school was Kiesler Air Force Base in Bluxy, Mississippi, right on the coast. My tech school was approximately six weeks. Tech school was a little rough. They gave a lot to you to study, then sometimes you couldn't study what you were learning. But it was fun because there was a lot to do around the area. You can really be stationed at any base, plus some NATO bases overseas. On average, you work about 50 hours a week, most of the time there are 12-hour shifts. With this job, there's a lot that you can do with FEMA and other organizations like that. So at deployment tempo, we're one in four, but with how small all the offices are, you don't really deploy that much. I've been in for three and a half years and still haven't deployed. I'm not sure yet if I'm planning on making it a career. I still have a little bit of time to decide. I'm kind of keeping all my options up and making sure I don't shut in doors. So typical shift, you get in approximately 20 minutes before your shift is supposed to start and you do all your checks and shift change over to include checking what aircraft you're following that day because we flight follow all inbound and outbound aircrafts. With flight following the aircraft, it's just making sure that they're leaving on time, getting what they need and making sure that there's no issues. And throughout the day, there really is no, this is what's going to happen at this time, this is what's going to happen at this time. It's based on what's going on. So how there was the gate runner that happened in the UK, our job would immediately be, or command control operations would immediately be notified and we would talk to the commander to find out what he wants to do and disseminate the word of what he would like to do. So you guys would be the ones to kind of like disseminate the message that like the base is going on lockdown or something. So we are the, we run the Giant Voice and we also run APOC and then with our job there is actually a checklist for every single item that is on there. We have 800 different, or 700 different series of checklists and each series is a different thing. Then a CVC, which is your daily stuff. I was at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam for the missile inbound that we were supposed to be hit with by North Korea that was inadvertently sent. So my job we fielded 450 phone calls within 30 minutes to find out what was going on and at the same time communicating with the Wing Commander and all of our group commanders because we didn't know if it was really yet or an inverted message. So even some crazy thing like that we had a checklist that kind of covered what we should do, who we should call. Each series is a different type of checklist. They're not all like 1 through 100. Like a 500 series checklist is whether you normally have about 7 checklists right there. 700 is kind of miscellaneous checklist that can cover multiple different things. 200 is just everything involving flight following from aircraft is 30 minutes late so we have to start kind of looking for the aircraft and seeing where they are, seeing if they're just running late, departed, their previous station late, diverted or in worst case scenario did have to ditch the aircraft somewhere. So you guys are kind of like the brains of the Air Force, like base in a way. Yes. You're kind of like the nervous system I guess, is like the commander kind of says the word and you're kind of relaying that to everyone else and then vice versa. Other things happen, it comes to you and you relay that to the commanders. Yes, we get notified of every little thing if security forces gets called to somebody's house for noise complaint, domestic violence or like the largest thing that you would see a missile inbound, gate runners, normal things like that. For new people coming in, I would just say be prepared for long 12-hour shifts. We have to have two controllers on shifts at all times. So if you're working a 12-hour shift and it's you and one other person you cannot leave to go get food, they can't leave to go get food you can step out for five minutes to go to the bathroom but that's really it. So just showing up to work every single day and prepared for really anything. I come with two small meals and a bunch of snacks every day because you never know you can put your food in the microwave but not give back to it for another three hours so you just snack on really small things. And then just for new people just be smart with your time, be smart with your money. It's very easy to just kind of waste your money and blow your money than your PCI scene and you realize that you just don't have any money to do anything with and you want to do all these fun things for free but you just can't. So you can reach out to me at my Instagram it's Eric but with 2e so ee, r-i-c, 821 or at my Facebook just Eric Savage and my wife does have a YouTube channel that we've been kind of trying to work on. My YouTube channel is Moblisha I'm just like military spouse with vlogs and thanks vlogging the PCS We've been trying but there's an issue with her camera and she can't figure out how to change something on the screen Gotcha but it's actually a camera you guys used to use it I'll look at it, I'll fix it for you guys and then you can get back to document it Yes So she hasn't posted in a little bit but we are looking at it posting just in order to get to Langley just new things for us to do we did do quite a few