 okay so I try to make a long story short so back in 2016 when I was in college I had a scholarship and track and that was that's what was paying for my college and long story short I went a bluesy night scholarship and I had to come to a decision where I was like well I didn't you know I didn't join college to rack up on loans you know so I had to look to different other sources so my pops told me like hey you know if you ever joined the military during the Air Force so I'm like alright I'll look into it and I did so after a while looking into it I'm like yeah I can I can you know I can make something out of this and it'll get me out of this hole that I'm in so you know why not joining back in 2017 and you know I haven't looked back since I've been in for about two and a half years now and I just put on a senior airman about a month ago something about a month ago most people just call it refer to us as weather but sounds cooler when you say weather technician with someone to ask so yeah I'm a weather technician oh the AFC is 1W0X1 absolutely not I got reclass into weather I was originally cyber transport and I got that before I joined in you know before I went to basic already knew what my job was and everything you know it's cyber transport I can't even tell you all it was you're just some kind of IT guy by the way I went I did three months of that it didn't work out I couldn't keep up got reclass into weather which was even about as hard if not harder no so like I said when I initially joined I already had the job that I initially wanted but I couldn't do it because it was just way harder than I thought so I got reclass into weather which is just as hard if not harder but longer as well so no this is not something I wanted to do however on the outside now that I'm like actually actually doing my job I have no regrets and I enjoy it so to be honest I kind of like I wanted to do finance I think I would have been cool in there because I just I just like numbers you know and either that or like computer programming anything like that you know something that can I can see myself doing on a outside essentially so I just like numbers so that was something that I would wish I could have did but Vegas can be choosers you just got to roll with what you got I joined I did a four-year because I was not sure I had to be sure like all right if I do this let me like give a make sure my options are you know I don't want to get stuck in a six country six-year contract you're like I should have did a four you know whatever the case so I did four to you know really take it on us like far as like okay can I can I see myself doing this so my tech school was in Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi the base is beautiful like the base is beautiful you know in this right next to the beach don't go inside the beach because you might not come out the same tech school was about eight months it can be longer if you wind up getting washed back for whatever courses and you know you could be up there it could be up to almost a year or ten months maybe depending on you know how long they hold you back with the wash back so yeah oh here we go no I absolutely hated tech school it was the worst it was the worst time I've ever had in my life because you know there are some tech schools where they treat you like adults or like it's almost like college-oriented like they treat you you know like adults not there at Keesler and the reason why it was so bad and you can ask anybody this who was in weather and in tech school now they can vouch for it like the way it's set up you have different squadrons with different jobs in them and in each squadron in our specific squadron I think it's the 335th I think I think there was five different jobs so there's there's finance there's personnel there's female admin and then there's weather which is us and out of all those five we're the longest of course and think of it like this you got these people and this isn't given any hash to any you know personnel or admin but just keep just think of it like this so we got these people who are who are personnel and admin they come in for only a month it barely if that maybe it's probably like three weeks or something like that and there have been a lot of incidents where if anybody messed up it would affect every single body like if for the most part it was personnel or the admin people who were only there for a few weeks so they don't really give a damn of as far as like you know if they get in trouble because they gonna be gone within the next week so they gonna do they dirt heat they pretty it's like it's set up like this they're gonna do the dirt while they're there and then they just gonna leave it behind because they gonna be gone and then it's just like a rotating system and it keeps happening but guess who has to endure all of that the weather people who's there for eight months and they punish everybody it's not just one it's everybody so we have to take on all that bull plus the studying that's there and just more of just being treated like a child so yes tech school sucked sex school was the worst time I was just the worst time for me I I would never ever want to go back to tech school well I got that out of my system oh no dude we can we can go anywhere I mean whether it's like any weather pretty much anywhere where you know whatever whatever base you know you got going on so that's cool they you know whether it's literally any station that's a station army base military you know Marine or anything so yeah okay so um I guess the the way to explain it well keep in mind like there's two things when it comes to my job like you can end up either at a weather station which is where I'm at or you could end up in the hub and essentially we do the same job because we're both you know we're both weather but our duties are pretty different from each other I'll try to summarize what the hub does for the most part they pretty much have a certain region of the US that they have to cover and you know when it comes to weather they're the ones who you know they'll get phone calls from like different pilots from whatever you know as long as it's within their region that's specific region then they they take care of any any of the pilots requests for whatever weather you know is to be expected within just a certain region of like you know the US now granted like different hubs you got different sets of regions but you're specifically set for just that now with us at the weather station what I do I specifically worry about in my case because I'm stationed at Barksdale I work with B-52 pilots day in and day out and they they come in requests you know they're usually just request whether depending on you know whether it's mission related or if it's airfield on the mission side when it comes to B-52 pilots you know we brief them wherever they're going the thing is like they can go wherever they choose to if I'm forecasting you know for takeoff conditions here and they're going all the way up to Alaska guess what I'm forecasting from here all the way to Alaska that's just the way it is in wherever else they're going where you know anywhere within the US I can be forecasting for it and that's just mission that's solely mission related now as far as the airfield where that's a that's where we still at the weather station we focus on just like any possible outcomes for like any storms you know that could potentially have hail any tornadoes or you know any wind advisories or anything like that you know it's our job to you know warrant pretty much warrant the base and like give them up and like hey expect this you know to come in around this time and then you know and this is how bad it's gonna be I think that's um for the most part that's what we do day in and day out you know there are days where you know obviously if there's not a cloud in the sky and there's no wind guess what you not that you ain't gonna have much to be doing I mean obviously we have SLPs on things we have to take care of on a daily but for the core of your job you're not really gonna have much to do because there's no weather going on but when there's weather going on oh trust and believe better be ready so yeah I'll be honest like when it comes to this specific career it's not for the week-minded decision-making is is key when it comes to you know weather because you're not gonna be right 100% of the time but keep that in mind and everybody else knows that you don't have to be right 100% of the time but as long as you know and you have confidence in what it is that you're saying that's the main goal as far as like weather now let me tell you this now when you're in tech school it's not really gonna seem like that but trust and believe the teachers they know or the instructors they know that they're just trying to push you out so that you can go see what it's really like because in tech school it's very black and white but when you get into the outside world it's it's the total opposite it's completely great and you'll realize that as you progress in tech school it's not black and white so be strong-minded be confident in what it is that you're saying and what it is that you're speaking that way you know you look good when you're doing your job you don't have to be 100% right like I said again but as long as you speak with confidence and you know stay firm and what it is that you say and believe and just go from that you you'll do fine honestly you just it's all about the right decision-making like with confidence just be confident in what it is that you're saying you can just follow me on my Instagram which is keep on a Murray you know I post videos every once in a while I have my own YouTube but it's all linked there so just go follow my Instagram you'll see what I'm about and what I do all right cool