 If you guys don't know, Bully Juice is another Air Force YouTuber, the sub-gap on us is getting a little close, so if you guys want to help me out, click on the subscribe button, or if you want him to pass me this year, then go ahead and subscribe to him, but either way, I'm cool with it. He is going to be talking about his job and what he does in Air Force, how long have you been in though and what rank are you right now? So I've been in the Air Force for four years thus far, I have two more years I signed a six-year contract, a staff sergeant select. So you're an E-4, about to be E-5. Correct. Alright, before we get into what exactly your job is and all of that, why did you join the Air Force in the first place? Originally, I actually went to a recruiter for the Marine Corps because my dad is actually a Marine. I grew up in military brat. My dad kind of taught me into going the Air Force route because he said the Air Force actually has better programs and they're more about technology and schooling and stuff like that. I also wanted to be able to say that I did something that a majority of the population would never do and that served in the United States military. What exactly is your job title in the Air Force and what is the AFSC code for that? People that are joining or looking at this are probably know it by the AFSC because that's what the recruiters say. I'm sure you probably get people that message you that are like, yo, I'm a one whiskey this blah blah blah and I'm like, I don't know what that means, but I know what the name of it is. So for you guys that are trying to figure it out if you're like, oh, that's what I'm trying to do. So name of the job and AFSC for people that like to know that. So 2T1X1 with ground transportation now formally known as vehicle operations. Is that what it was when you signed it was vehicle ops? It was vehicle ops, but they I think they recently changed it to ground transportation. People were getting mad. I thought it was going to be like special ops, but with vehicles, right? And then you're like, this didn't add up like what am I doing? Where's the operations at? Where's the forward list? So operation gets us, but what vehicle ops though? Did you get this job straight out of depth or did you sign some sort of open contract? And how long did you sign the contract for? So I actually got this right out of depth. That was one of the jobs I put on my list because one of my buddies, JB, Jerry, got there watching. He actually recommended it go off because that's what he did. He was stationed up there in Washington State. He said it was cold. He recommended this job because of what I planned on doing for our schooling and things like that. And he told me what the job was about sounded cool, driving 18 willows and huge forklifts and stuff. And so not four wheelers. No four wheelers. And I thought I was going to maybe get us some tanks or something, but I don't see many tanks. So how long did you sign the contract for? Originally I signed a actually funny story. I signed a four year contract, four years, and they're going to ask you over and over and over like when you go to MEPs and I want to say I changed mine at basic training. Got it! My MTI asked me like, if anybody that was signed for wanted to change it to six. Desperate. Not you. They're like, are you sure? Are you sure? You're like, bro, I told you like 12 times. And you know what? That's a smart tactic because, you know, you're not thinking straight at basic. No. You have your MTI come acting son. I don't even remember them asking it, but that's because I already signed a six year contract. It probably didn't actually do it. So I didn't even think about it. When were you? He asked me and I was just like, sure. Planned on doing 20 anyway, so. Why not? Why not? And you didn't even get a signing bonus or nothing for it. I got nothing. Got it! You were like, oh, I had an extra two years for nothing. I already was getting E3. I didn't get, don't remind me. They got you. Don't remind me of. I have a video on how it works. If you're joining as an E1, E2 or E3, so if you guys are interested in that stuff, I'll have the little playlist linked up above. Everything happens for a reason. So same thing. Like I would go, I just told myself, you know, I kind of wish I would have signed a four, but then I'm like, ah, but like some things that happen because I signed a six, that wouldn't have happened if I signed a four. So I mean, everything happens for a reason. Just take it with a grain of salt. Me and my wife talked about it. We were like, nah, I'm getting so mad. But like, oh, if I had one regret, that's it. And then she's like, well, at the same time, I don't know if we'd be ready to leave. Like this March would be my last day. You have one month. I have one month left. You're kind of like, hey, you know what? It's actually good. You're like, I've got two more years to get comfortable with stuff before I branch out. So you said this was something that you wanted to do, but what number was it on your list? Do you remember? I know this was a while ago. I remember. This was the third job on my list. Okay. Because I actually, I can't remember what it is when you have a parent or somebody close to you in the military at a certain rank, they can actually write a letter and you get one of your top three jobs. I know some guys that have done that because their dad will be like some officer that's like super high up. Yeah. And so he walked in and got like their number one pick. I'm like, what is this, dude? So I want to say my number one job was air traffic control. My third job was definitely vehicle. I remember it because I was like, I'm my third, my third job. I cannot remember. You must not have wanted to do with that because you already forgot. Probably a good thing you didn't get it. Yeah. Oh yeah. I'm glad I got what I got. So tech school for ground transportation, where is it? How long is it? Tech school for ground transportation is a little bit over a month long. And it's at Fort Lost in the Woods. Fort Leonard Woods. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard of Fort Leonard Woods. Fort Lost in the Woods, what do they call it? Okay. It's an army base. The Air Force and the Marines was there as a detachment. Gotcha. But the base was an army base. How was the DFAC? The DFAC was pretty good. The DFAC was good. The jet was good. Well, that's like, they have a basic training there too for the army. Yes. Okay. Yes. Them guys that run around. Yeah, we see them all the time. And they're like, look at those guys. They aren't smart enough to get near force. They're making some joke about us, always sitting in a chair or something. Those clowns, they're always sitting down, but they're standing right now. Weird. How many bases can you go to? Or is there a select few? Because some jobs are limited. I get where you're going. To an area. So are you just, can you go any base almost? Yes. I can go to pretty much any base for the most part. When you're airing as a certain level, you can only go to a handful of bases you can't go to. You don't have those bases where you have to be a master sergeant or you have to be a tag, at least a level seven or five or whatever. But for like level three, fresh out of tech school, pretty much 95% of the bases you go to. So there's not going to be a whole lot of restrictions for ground transportation. Okay. So this is going to be one of the most important questions that I ask. And it's going to be how can you explain your job so somebody like me that does not know anything about it or somebody that's interested in this job or looking into it right now that's watching this, how can we understand what exactly you do? I guess the simplest way I can put it is we take people or things from point A to point B. That can be cargo, being the things, whether it's hazmat things, we transport ammo, we transport bombs, we also transport random things like boxes. I don't know what you ordered. You ordered something for your plane. Yeah. I take it to you. So my order, it comes into the warehouse, pick it up, take it to you. Also somebody, let's say you break down. Well, we're coming to take your vehicle to maintenance. You know, we'll tow your vehicle to maintenance. So you can operate a tow truck? Yes. That's crazy. I didn't know that. So we have rollbacks, we have 20 tons. So we're picking up big old dump trucks and stuff. We have a low-boy drop deck, all these different things. Dang. That's what we do. So we move things. And we also drive buses, the shuttle, the base shuttle. We drive that. Do you get a CDL while you're in? We don't have it while we're in because we have our government license that I'm, you know, qualified. We have to qualify for everything. But for us, when we get out, all we have to do is get our commander to sign a paper and we take it up there and we get our CDLs. So that's actually could be a good thing, beneficial for some people. If they're looking to apply for a job on the outside, that would require a CDL. Especially, you know, you get that hazmat endorsement and things like that. You make a lot of money. All the oils. Definitely. So are there any portions of your job, like, say, different departments of you're not just driving a truck around all the time? Get what you're asking. So we have different sections that would then be a go-off that you could be running in a sense. Equipment, you're also licensing. Like I say, you want to do something for your own section that requires you to drive a tractor trailer. Then you can come to get us to update your license or get... You guys are the ones... Because we had to do forklift training. And you guys are the ones that signed off on it. Yeah, we certify you. Okay. So you come, we test you, and we say, okay, they're good to go. We certify you, put on your license. Yep. So some people need forklifts. Some people need tractor or whatever. So when you're doing that portion, you're not even driving around. You're just going there and you're kind of just doing paperwork stuff. Yeah, you have an office that you kind of do a lot of paperwork stuff and make sure those things are in order. Then you have a truck. We have a training section. And then we have dispatch, obviously. Then we have support where you're at. Most of the airmen is at support where you're going to be driving all those things. And dispatch is going to be dispatching you out. So I mean, it's different sections. We also have a documented cargo section, which is basically pickup and delivery. It's P&D. So we work with material management guys. You guys may know them as supply. We work with them. They take packages off the shelves. They put them in a little section. I'd actually just done a video with somebody that is material management. So if you guys want to watch that video, I'll link it up above. If you guys would check that out, you can kind of see what that job does and then how he kind of is the delivery mailman on base for them. With that hand in hand with them as well. And earlier you said that you will transport people or things. Right. So what kind of people need transported? Because like when I drove to work, I drive from a house to base. And then I would work and then I would drive home. Like I didn't need to be transported. So who are you transporting on base and why? Okay. So we have a tech school on base, tech schoolers. So that's how they get around. Okay. And we have a shuttle route for them. So we actually have a lot of tech schools. So the people that picked us up at basic training in school buses from the airport were probably vehicle ops. They were ground transportation. That was their job. Like that was their daily task. If you're stationed at Lackland, you just go pick up trainees. They probably do that. You can go to Lackland as a vehicle operator. Yeah. I didn't even think about that. That's who picked us up at the airport. So literally when you guys go to basic training and you get to the airport and they line you up and you are getting on the buses to go to Lackland. That's this guy right here. Yeah. That's actually pretty cool. Yeah. We're doing all type of stuff. We really think about it. Air crew as well. We go to their planes and stuff, pick them up or like air crew go T-D-Y. We pick them up at the plane, take them to the hotel and then pick them up and take them back to the plane. Sometimes we also, it's almost like a rental service. So we call them U-D-I's, which is you drive it. We have W or we D-I's, which is we drive it. You drive it. That's funny. It's weird. We D-I's. So either you request a driver. Let's say you need something forklift, but you don't have anybody on board. Then you come to us and we do it for you. Or you can request a vehicle. And you just come and like rent it out basically. Okay. So we would do that when we went to T-D-Y. Exactly. We would come pick up like a big like 12-pack van or something like that. And then, but we'd check it out from you guys. Yeah. Okay. So who's the one checking that out then? That's dispatch. Dispatch does that? Okay. So out of all these different portions of your job that you've said, so it's not just like one thing that you do. You don't do all of those things every day. You'll be like in a certain section. So out of all of those, what's your favorite section? Honestly, my favorite section was documented cargo thus far. I've only done two different sections. I was in support for the majority. Okay. Of my career. And then I was in pick up and delivery, which is documented cargo. And when I made staff, now they've been training me in dispatch because I'm going to be running swing ships. Okay. The dispatchers. I would say so far, I haven't had much dispatch action, but pick up and delivery was my favorite one because it's driving me. I just think, you know, I'm thinking. You know, I could deal with a lot of people. Don't have to deal with you. I'd go there, pick up my packages, and we did two sweeps. We did one at nine and one at one. Oh, dang. So, and it took me anywhere from 30 to an hour or some time to do the sweep. So you do, you do that and that's it. See you next week. Knock out some other training or whatever you got to do. Whatever you got to do. And then just take care of your own stuff. Recourse the YouTube videos. There you go. Smart. Thinking ahead. Yeah. Anybody that's watching this video that might be interested in this job, that's how they found this because they're like, I might put this on my list or I just got this job and I have no idea what contract I just signed. Right. So after listening to this video, is there any advice you could give to somebody that is going to take this job? Definitely, believe it or not, my career field was one of those ones. I actually mentioned this before where we also did convoys. Oh. We did convoys with the Army. We also deployed a lot. The same band that I deployed with last year, we got tasked to deploy again like back and forth. We hadn't even been back for six months to deploy. We were tasked again. So we have a very high tempo band. We're not one of the ones that's like you deploy once every blue moon. Yeah. We got people deployed now. When they get back, we got other people even. Every place we vehicle operate. Like we talked about before, deployments when you show up and you get there and you're like, how do we get to where we're supposed to sleep? We're doing that. I'll be there to pick you up. Yeah. I remember when a bunch of people would come into the base and when we was deployed, a bunch of people would fly in for their rotator to the Swit-Dew Swap House. We would be driving out there beating them at the plane with like four buses, four big old buses, rolling them up and baggage. What do you think we're doing? We're driving a big old tractor trailer out there and they're throwing all their baggage in the back and we're driving it to another section. I did not know a lot of this. I'm going to learn so much by doing this after I'm out of the Air Force and asking all these people about their jobs. There's just so much to every single job that I just didn't know about. It was actually funny because it never really clicked with me, but when I went to UI to Alaska and this dude picked us up and he was driving us to the hotel and I went to get off and I was just like, oh, I was like, oh, man, and he's like, this is my job. And I was like, okay. And I'm just thinking, yeah, he's like a part of some maintenance squadron and they just were like, you know, go drive this bus and pick these dudes up. I didn't realize that was actually that guy's job. I understood it was his job in the moment, but it just now clicked with me. That was literally his job was to drive around the bus and pick people up when they need to pick up. I love like chauffeurs as well. Because we're the ones that's driving around the chief of staff, the secretary of defense. So you guys can meet a lot of high-end people. High-end people. Like a lot of top brass in the military. You can meet them doing your job. Yeah, because we're the ones that are driving around to see all of you guys' different spots. We just sit in the freaking thing, 10 and 2. Is that what you were talking about? You're trying to be professional. I'm a relaxed person, but when you get around to me automatically you're like, okay, don't make no mistakes. Dude, just do this. On top of it, man. I've never seen anybody driving this professional. You want your uniform, Chris, your hat. You know, most of me take their hats off in the vehicle. I don't ever take my hat off. I don't want to look in the mirror. I just bring it down like this and I'm just like, yeah. They're like, this airman, I like this guy. This is a good guy. They coin you and it's like, yes, sir. It's a little keepin' movin'. That's awesome. Learn something new every day. Hopefully you guys appreciate this video. You learned a little bit more about ground transportation. Hopefully we can help you out. If you haven't subscribed to Bowie Juice, then go do that. 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