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You can really coast for 20 years here if you do just enough to get by and do what your boss wants you to do no questions asked. Healthcare is a huge benefit..housing, possible retirement pension and TSP 401K are good. If you want to travel the world this is a good option but you have to be picky about what career field you pick because you could end up at bad bases.
You’re essentially on call 24/7 so work life balance is non existent. You will get deployed and go TDY a lot which puts a strain on you and your family. They’ll force you to do school even if you’re a plumber, mechanic, technician etc but at least it’s free for the most part. You’ll have endless additional duties (that are really other people’s jobs they just don’t hire enough people to actually do the task they’re hired to do) so you can’t actually focus on your core tasks at your job, hence why the federal government is so inefficient. Funding is always low prepare for slow computers, bad work conditions, and crappy equipment. 90% of the people you’re around, military and federal government employees, do not care at all, they just want a paycheck and will slowly and quietly outsource their core tasks to the 10% who do care (and want to get promoted and stack their yearly performance evaluations) and you can’t fire them because they’re impossible to fire (mil and civ alike). You’re essentially a pawn on Congress’ chessboard.
American hero SMSgt Israel “DT’” Del Toro Jr. and his family will be welcomed to their new mortgage-free smart home by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation on Wednesday.
The US Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) small spacecraft, called Ascent, has successfully completed all its assigned mission objectives.