 What's up guys? Today I have Jacob Disher here. He's an airman in the United States Air Force and we are gonna be talking about his job in the Air Force, which is material management. The AFSC is 2S0X1. But first, go ahead and tell me how long you've been in the Air Force and what your current rank is. I've been in for a little over three and a half years, gonna hit four years this August and I am a senior airman testing for staff this year. Are you excited? Are you like? Yeah. You're excited? You're like, I wanna make staff. I wanna make it right away. What is material management as a whole? Like if you could sum it up in one sentence, what is material management? Material management, commonly known as supply. A lot of people call it supply. It's basically you're managing all the materials coming in and out of base. That you're like for everything. Like FedEx. Yeah. FedEx for the military. FedEx. When you joined the Air Force, did you know you were coming in as material management or did you sign some sort of open contract to get this job? Open contract. Open contract. So you found out at basic training that you were gonna be material management. So when you got material management at basic training, was this even something that you wanted to do? I looked into it beforehand. It seemed easy. So I was like, I like easy jobs. So I was like, I can get paid to do something easier than this job. All right, I'll take this one. But you actually wanted material management somewhat. It wasn't like your dream job in the Air Force, right? But once you knew you were going in as open contract, you were okay with that job. You had researched it. So knowing that it's not your original dream job, like when you joined the Air Force, you were thinking, I wanna do these things. So it wasn't your original dream job, but overall, just to sum up your experience so far, has it been a good experience, a bad experience, worth it, not worth it? It's been a good experience. I met a lot of people that have really helped me along the way, not just in the military side, but in the personal side too. No matter what job you get, you're always gonna meet people. You're always gonna meet friends and you're just gonna learn to love your job. And it's gonna be good or bad if you're like, yeah, it wasn't horrible. It was just, I could do way more with my life, so. One of the biggest questions people usually have with a job. So if people are watching this right now, they're probably like, I have the opportunity to have this job. Or they're like, my recruiter just gave me this job and I don't know anything about it. So one of the first things people wanna know is where's your tech school? Where are you gonna be training at when you graduate basic training? Like, so you don't even go anywhere. Nope. I did not know that. I didn't know that it was at Lackland. So you literally just moved dorms. Yeah. From basic training and you're on the same base. They put us on a little bus and we went like right down the road. So you guys get to see people like basic training. That was the fun part. All the time. But you guys in tech school and you're like, that used to be us. That's hilarious. So I know security forces is also there. But I don't think there's a whole lot of tech schools there. Some of the special operations are there too. And you said load master is? I think so. There's a very select few jobs that will actually stay on Lackland, but I did not know material management state at Lackland. Probably because they have to ship in all the trainees stuff. So there's like all the stuff that they have to have. So you were at Lackland after basic training. So you did eight and a half weeks at basic. And then you're coming out of basic and you're driving right down the road. And then how long were you there in tech school? A little over 30 days. So it's just a month long, was your tech school? You were like, when you signed your job, you were like, what one has the shortest amount of schooling? I actually looked up too. I was looking at jobs and all these jobs and they're like six month long tech schools. And I saw this one at 30 days and I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna choose that. Yeah, you're like, that sounds like a great job. Minimal training required. Graduating from tech school and getting your assignment somewhere. Currently you're at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia. You originally had orders to Okinawa, Japan to Kadena Air Force Base. You swapped somebody in tech school. So we know those two bases you can go to. But where else can you go? Are you like limited to a select few bases? Or do you guys just get anywhere you wanna go or are there some certain bases you can't? We can pretty much go any base. So there's not really a limit on where you can go? We can even go to some army bases too. My career field, you work with the army sometimes. So sometimes you will, you could possibly go to an army base. So you can get orders to an army base. Not even be an Air Force Base. Yeah. Dang. That would suck. But at least you know you can go to a ton of different places. You don't have this very select limited amount of bases that you can get stationed at. So that can be a deciding factor for some people. Cause they're like, I don't wanna go to a career field where I'm limited to five bases. And there are a few career fields like that in the Air Force, but material management doesn't seem to be one of those. You can kinda just go anywhere. It's all pretty similar no matter where you get stationed. Yeah, pretty much wherever jets fly or wherever, that's pretty much. Wherever they need anything. Yeah. One thing that I want to help people with this video is for you to explain what exactly do you do in your job to somebody that just got this job contract where they're possibly looking into maybe doing this, how can you help them understand what they're gonna be doing? There's like five different sections to material management itself. There's the parts store. And in the parts store you're gonna be dealing with all the parts to the aircraft. You're gonna be sorting through them. You're gonna be counting through them. There's COSO, customer support, which is what I am now. We order all the parts for the maintainers. I like how you guys make it seem like a cool name. You're like, yeah, we're COSO. I didn't know that stood for customer support. Yeah. And so now it's funny because I'm like, it's like the most basic thing. And then you're like, yeah, we're COSO. I'm COSO. Yeah. The retainers come to us, we order the parts, we track the parts where they're at, when they're supposed to come in. That's pretty much that. IPE, which stands for Individual Protective Equipment, which is the first section I was in when I first got to Moody. That deals with all the chemical gear. So whenever you deploy to like a combat zone, you're gonna have to get all your chem gear. So your jacket, helmet, vests, weapons, anything. You're gonna go to us and we're gonna issue that to you. With that department of your job at Cadena is super busy because they constantly have people coming in to pick stuff up or turn stuff in. Oh, when they PCS in or the PCS out or if they're going on deployments. So it can be pretty hectic for that position. But at Moody, it's not a very busy section or would it be? It can be. It depends on when deployments go, mostly. Yeah. Whenever there's a big deployment going out, then it really gets busy. If nothing's going on, then it's pretty chill. Okay. It was never chill at Cadena. Not in that department. Really? There were other departments that were kind of chill, but not that one. So that was the third one. So then I lost the fourth and fifth. There is Flight Service Center. So that deals with all the different parts. When a part's bad, the maintenance turns it into COSO. Flight Service Center will come pick up the bad parts, take them back to their shop, do all the paperwork and then they will ship the part off to go get fixed. And then the fifth one is customer service. It usually works in the main building. They deal with all the online orders and stuff. I don't really know a whole lot. I haven't worked there, so. Which of those five departments have you all worked? You haven't worked the last one, customer service. Have you worked the other four? I've worked IPE. You switch every two years. So you work one section for two years and then they move you to a different section. That's good to know. See, I didn't even know that. So I didn't know if they were just like, it's just like luck of the draw. And they're just like, all right, you're gonna be here for like eight years. So they try to give you experience in all of them. So if you do stay in long term, you've had experience in all the departments. So I did two years in IPE, so all the chemical gear and then I deployed and on my deployment I did IPE, so there's another six months of doing it. Came back and then they moved me to COSO. So you've been doing COSO for how long now? Since August, so about seven months. So you still have another year and a half essentially left in COSO and then do you know where they're gonna possibly put you next? I don't know, I do. Would there be an opportunity for you to go back to IPE or are they gonna definitely put you in one of the three you haven't been in? They would more than likely put me in one that I haven't been in yet. It all depends on me. Do you have a preference that you know, so you've done two, what would you say your personal preference, now you guys have to keep in mind online when you're hearing people talk about their jobs or whatever, everything's a personal experience, so don't take his personal experience and say that's how I want mine to be, but what would you, if you had to rack and stack the five departments, what would you say would be your dream department to be in? Number one would definitely be where I'm at now, COSO. Working with maintainers is so much fun. Working at the parts store would probably be my number two. Flight service center, dealing with all the different parts, that would probably be number three. Customer service, probably be number four and IPE, probably number five. So you got IPE out of the way, right away? So you got that done with, so now you're like, all right, my last, my least favorite one is done. I don't have to worry about it for another 10 years. Hopefully. IPE really isn't supply all that much. All you do is count training gear, count gear, it's not really supply. That's what a lot of people say. It's really not supply. The stuff we do in the system in COSO, like you don't use in IPE at all. Gotcha. So you're not just gonna be in a job and just stay there for 20 years. Like you're gonna be moving around and learning different things about the whole system in itself. See this is all good information because I didn't know any of this and I was in maintenance for six years and I dealt with COSO and I still didn't really understand all that stuff that they had all these different departments. If you guys have this job and that's why you're looking up this video, hopefully you found this helpful. One last thing of advice for you guys from Jacob and that is gonna be what advice will you have for somebody that's taking this job that or is looking into this job or getting this job? What advice for them to have a good experience in material management? Have fun with it. It's not as hard as a lot of people may get seen. It's an easy job but people just stress themselves out over the littlest things. So if you learn to just kind of sit back and look at the whole picture of the job, it's really not that hard. Just keep it going. So try to break things down to be more simple instead of complicate everything. It's good advice. I think that would be good advice for anybody. If you're still looking into different jobs you wanna do and you found this video, keep that same mindset with any career field that you go into. Try to look at the big picture of why things are happening or how things are happening because you can definitely overwhelm your stuff with little stuff that doesn't matter and it can make people really not like a job. So definitely some good information. So hopefully this helped you guys if you're looking into material management. 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