 Hey, how's it going, Kyle? My name's Alex. Let me answer any budget questions for you. I joined straight out of high school, so originally I just wasn't ready, I don't know, for that college life. I just didn't want to go to school, be tons of tons of in debt after you get your degree. I don't know, I just felt like that wasn't like my path at that certain point. So I just wanted to join to get the experience and then maybe one day pursue like education benefits and stuff like that. I have been in the Air Force for about six years now and my current rank is Staff Sergeant. So my job, the name of it is actually Aerospace Medical Services. The AFSC is going to be 4n0x1. So did I sign this job in debt? Originally no, I actually signed up for a different job in the debt program. I actually signed up for SEER, Survival Evasion Resistance Escape Specialist. I originally wanted to be a PJ, a para-escue jumper. I wanted to go for that job, but unfortunately I went to MEPS. I failed the eyesight. I just didn't have good enough vision, so I just didn't qualify for that. But I did pass everything else. I qualified for a SEER specialist. So I ended up joining, going to basic and then going directly into SEER after that. But unfortunately during the training, I got injured and I just couldn't proceed on with the training. So I actually got reclassed. And from there, I actually got to go to a different job. They have you pick different jobs and stuff like that. So basically on your dream sheet, you'll list out other jobs that you want to be reclassed into and they'll more likely pick from that. If not, they'll pick from some other jobs that's on high demand. But luckily I did get my first pick and it was Aerospace Medical Services. So that's what I got. And I kind of got lucky with that. Yes, this job is actually definitely what I wanted to do. I'm really glad that I was put into this job now. I'm very happy. I really enjoy the medical field and I plan to pursue it even further. Like I said, the other job that I wanted to do was peri-rescue. I really, really was interested in that. I thought that was maybe some pretty badass stuff. But now, married, I feel like I'm going to have a family probably pretty soon or want to. I just feel like it's not realistic for me anymore. But I've come close to the best I can for the goals that I have. But yeah. So when I first joined, I actually signed a six-year contract. Originally, I thought I was going to do 20 years. I thought I was going to do the full span. That's not the case anymore. But originally, I thought I was going to do 20. So I said, Hey, why not do six? But yeah, that's how that went. So tech school for my job is actually at Fort Sam Houston Army Base in Texas. It's about 20 minutes down the road from Lackland Air Force Base. That's where they do that. So our tech school can definitely vary. But on average, it's about six months or so. You do your phase one and a phase two. Your phase one is all your book work and your schooling that the instructors provide you with. You do all your tests and you get certified. You actually get to go get your EMT basic certification. And then from there, you also do your nursing care as well. After that, you then complete your phase two. From there, you go to different locations. You can go from right Patterson Air Force Base, you can go to Travis Air Force Base. There's many other ones, but those are your phase two locations where they have a big military treatment facility and you do your hands on. You do your clinicals there. So that's where you actually get to learn that. I very much enjoyed my tech school. Phase one was pretty cool. Right there, still in Texas. Whenever you have time off or whatnot, you get to go down to the river walk and enjoy your time. And even the schooling, too, pretty good information. My favorite part, though, is definitely when I was going to phase two when I was getting my clinicals and actually doing hands on with patients of real world care. So that was probably like my best experiences I really enjoyed. Yeah. So with this job, you can pretty much go any location, any location that has a big MTF or big military treatment facility or a clinic. Everywhere they need, they're going to need medical technicians that need to assist. Yeah. So within my job, actually, my story is going to be a little different. I actually possess what's called a special experience identifier. So within this medical job, you not only can just be like a medical technician, you can hold different certifications. So for example, I'm a paramedic and actually registered paramedic. And with my job, I actually can work out of an ER emergency room excuse me, emergency department. I can work out of an emergency room. And from there, I can also go on ambulance calls. So I also respond in ambulance services. So that's a really cool thing about my job is that I can be at ERs or I can be on an ambulance responding to medical emergencies. So that's pretty cool. So how many hours you can work with this job can definitely vary. If you work in a clinic, say like you work family health or like flight medicine or different clinics like that, that's pretty nice. That has like a normal, you know, you have a seven to four, seven to five job Monday, Monday through Friday, five days a week. With my particular job, I actually work what's called like a Panama shift. So these ones actually range from 12 hour workdays. And they actually do three days on two days off. And then like vice versa, where you do two days on three days off three, or excuse me, this is where you can actually do three days on two days off two days on three days off. Take that same night correctly. So it can vary pretty much. These are a lot of different schedules that you can work with, but this is the one especially when it comes to the ER, you work that schedule three days on, two days off, two days on three days off. And you'll rotate that pretty much every other week and then every four months you also do like days and night shifts. So that's what we can do for hours and hours. So different certifications actually that the Air Force can provide for you is when you go to tech school, you get your EMTB. So your emergency medical technician, your basic certification, you actually get that and that transfers over to the human world. That's nationally registered. For me, I'm a nationally registered paramedic. So I'm also when I decide to separate and stuff, I'll be able to go and use down the civilian sector. I'm nationally registered. So that is many, one of many certifications that you can transfer. Yeah. So for deployments, I myself have never deployed, but you definitely can get deployed in this job. You can go and deploy and work out like out of ER or you can go work out of like amylases and stuff like that. It just kind of depends on where they want to put you. But yes, you can deploy definitely with this job. So for making a career or separating, I actually plan to separate within the next year. I originally signed a six year contract and I just hit my six year mark, but I'm actually stationed overseas and for myself and my wife to come over here, I had to extend my enlistment. So I extended a year and a half and I'll actually be doing about seven and a half years by time I separate the Air Force. I originally thought I was going to do 20 years and it looks like I just, I don't know, it's not for me. I don't want to do 20 years. I just want to do my time that I signed up for and I want to separate and go back to kind of the civilian sector and do that stuff. I would definitely say my top job. When it comes to being in the Air Force, I would still have this job. I really do enjoy this job a lot. I really enjoy the medical field. It really is. I feel like my calling. So I am really glad I found it and I'm glad that I got to get the certifications and the education that it gave me. So for advice in the future pertaining to this job and the Air Force, definitely if you want to come into anything medical in the military, I would just recommend maybe like say, you say you're still like in college, take some medical classes, you know, just basic anatomy, physiology, other medical terms, anything, anything medically related or even get like your CPR, CPR or basic life support, any kind of certifications like that will just further increase your knowledge before you get in. So you're not just receiving all this at once and you're like, I don't understand, but I would definitely recommend doing that for sure before coming to the medical field. When it comes to the Air Force, I would say with the advice for Air Force, I would definitely say try and always keep an open mind. Don't always go in acting like you're always the person who knows, always knows what's going on. You're always acting like you know everything. Don't try and do that. Just always try and keep an open mind. Know if you want to sign a four or six here. Yeah, so if you want to find me online, I do have an Instagram, I do have a Twitter. You can actually find me at howlerback, H-A-L-L-O-R, that's my last name, back. So yeah, you can find me on there for Instagram 20 if you want to follow me. Thanks.