 I guess there's really not one specific reason. I kind of just wanted to do it So like I was pretty much stuck in my town my whole life and just wanted to do something different I had friends that were Army Marines and Navy and they all pointed me to my direction was the Air Force So I looked into it and you know, I was like why not I was 23 at the time So I did join late. I tried college at first and it really wasn't working out I'm not a I'm not a school type of person So I just went into the cruise office and I was like, let's do this and within within four weeks I was gone. So it was a pretty quick process So I've been in the Air Force Air Force for almost four and a half years I'm a E4 senior airman. So I initially enlisted The four year and then I extended one extra year because I wasn't ready to get out So I feel like I made the right decision four years was plenty of time. I'm not really listing currently So, yeah looking forward to that So the technical name of my job is munition technician also known as ammo and EIS Look that up if you don't know what that means. FSE code is 2WOX1 So I actually came in open contract. I was never really in debt so to say The process between the time I went to their cruise office and me actually shipping out was really really fast I'd say like within four weeks So I went to meps did all my stuff I got cleared came back and I was actually waiting for HVAC job and so the recruiter knew this So I came back from meps a week later. He calls me up and he's like, hey man there's a slot that just opened up for open mechanical and they're leaving in two weeks and I within three seconds. I just said yes, like I didn't even think about it I just pretty much I just wanted to leave so I took an open mechanical Seventh week of training I think it was when they give you a list of jobs to choose was there choosing. I don't even remember choosing ammo I actually don't remember what I chose to be honest I'm glad I voted those aircraft loader jobs. I didn't have any of those on my list, but I got ammo I really didn't know what it was. I've never even heard of it. I read the description and I was like Okay, like a like a factory job not what I wanted but build bombs, right? It's a fun part It was not something that I wanted to do But I feel like in the end it all worked out because I've honestly enjoyed this job so far I've got to do a lot of really cool things that people usually don't do And pretty much when somebody asking what my like what I do in my job the easiest way to explain is saying that we build bombs and I mean telling somebody that you build bombs They kind of look at you like you're crazy But yeah, we build the we built the good bombs and if he wanted to do a HVAC And I'm so glad I didn't get HVAC because those guys work super hard in this heat B station analysts. I mean But uh, I wanted to do HVAC, you know for the mostly for the part of the outside skills that you get to take Outside and apply it to an actual job Also thought of doing medical, but I don't know it I'm just glad that I got ammo actually because it all worked out pretty good in the end. I have no complaints That was a tough choice actually For six I signed a four and I'm actually got glad I did because four years was plenty of time I never thought about making this into a career and you know, I thought well four years and get out Earn some skills come over the plan So I did end up extending in the end of the day. I'll be doing five years But yeah, I take if you're unsure if you want to make this a career Not I think four years the perfect amount of time and by that time if you decided yes It's for me This is what I want and you can easily re-enlist for six six more years And you don't make it a career as opposed to if you signed for six and you don't like it the first year And you absolutely decide you don't want to pursue that as a career then you got five years left So I personally I did four and it worked out just fine Tech school was Wichita Falls, Texas very northern part of Texas Tech school was I believe it's two months. Nothing too long. Nothing too short Tech school it wasn't anything crazy It was definitely better than basic. Obviously you have more freedom, but not way too much freedom It's just enough for you to relax. I really didn't do anything crazy in tech school. I just I kept it myself I was committed to learning my job and that's when I picked up going to the gym So I started going to the gym every day eating sleeping and going to learn my job And that's pretty much it a lot of people mess up when they go to tech school because they feel the freedom and they just go Crazy and this is where a lot of people screw up their careers and I'm getting kicked out doing something stupid So I decided to stay away from all that and just wait until I left school to do the crazy stuff So with ammo you could pretty much get stationed anywhere that has a fly line that has aircraft That has munitions or that has any sort of mission because ammo we pretty much we take care of the Air Force's stockpile of munitions That that's our that's solely our job to keep accountability of it and maintain them So pretty much any base has a fly line or any sort of ammunition there It's gonna have ammo. So yeah, we can get stationed pretty much anywhere in the US Hawaii you can go to Korea Japan Germany Italy, so it's a pretty good gig if you want to travel a lot. I personally I've only been to Nellis Which is Las Vegas And it's my first base and it's gonna be my last a lot of people don't like it I personally I I love it here coming from Florida moving to Las Vegas. It's a big change It's a big city over here, and I just absolutely love it But at the end of the day, it's what you make of it whether you get Nellis or I forgot one of those mountain bases The cold ones, but it's what you make of it at the end of the day And I've seen plenty of people leave through the Korea route. So they come here They don't like it. They want to leave two or three years later They're going to Korea for one year and then getting stationed at their base of preference after that So yeah, so a lot of travel opportunities. That's what you want to do All right, so it's kind of hard since we do a lot of things, but in a nutshell we build bombs Not just that but there's so there's so many shops you can work there You can end up in on a desk job working a computer all day or you can end up as a as a crew chief doing bomb builds Delivering ammunition to the flight line a typical day for me I guess I'm a crew chief not like a crew chief of the planes We're in charge of running our crews and running operations I'd say the general gist of it. We're in charge of Accountability service ability inspection and delivery of munitions Making sure all the animals good to go for the pilots and then making sure that Everything's there where it's supposed to be the right amount and then when it's ready to go We build everything up obviously and then we send out to the flight line or to whoever needs these ammunition There's a lot more to it. You can get special jobs special duties Okay advice for a new airman talk about the mindset keeping a positive mindset I run into a lot of people that I've gotten there absolutely hate their job and just their life is miserable But you know just accept it embrace the suck make the best of it It's really not a bad job and if you really decide Ammo is not for you then you always got that chance to cross train or just get out at the end of it But just accept it. You're there learn as much as you can about your job master it be really good at it and From there, you'll have a good experience. Obviously, you'll have some bad supervisors and bad leadership But everybody's experience is different. I personally I've had an awesome experience. I've met great people I've got the chance to deploy Do want to guard a bunch of cool stuff So so take those chances while you're in to learn to make friends to develop skills So then hopefully if you don't want to make it a career Take it outside with you, you know come up with a plan and if you do want to make it a career That's great because ammo. It's such a tight-knit community. They're like everybody's real close to each other We may talk crap about each other sometimes, but that's all that's a name of game You'll go through some stuff with people, you know good and bad But you just build that camaraderie if you don't drink a lot when you join ammo You're gonna drink a lot and you'll be one of ammo calls ammo bowls all types of events And I can honestly say it's it's been a great time. I have about six or seven months left And I'm gonna separate so I'm going through that process, but I'm not I'm honestly gonna miss it But it's time to take it take my life to the next level So I do have a YouTube channel that I actually just started and I don't have any content yet But I do plan on working on it