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 some different. I had friends that were army, marine, navy and they all pointed me to like direction with the Air Force. So I looked into it and you know I was like why not I was sweet to me at the time. So I did join LAY. I tried college at first and it really wasn't working now 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 were almost four and a half years. I'm an E4 senior Airman. So I initially enlisted the four year and then I extended one extra year because that was ready to get out. So I felt like I made the right decision. Four years was plenty of time. I'm not real listing currently. So yeah looking forward to that. So the technical name of my job is munitions technician also known as MO and EIS. I looked out of it if you don't know what that means. FSC code is 2W-O-X-1. So I actually came in open contract. I was never really in debt so to say the process between the time I went to the cruise office and me actually shipping out was really really fast. I'd say like within four weeks. So I went to MEPs. They'd all my stuff I got cleared. Came back and I was actually waiting for a HFAC 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 within three seconds I just said yes like I didn't even think about it. I just pretty much 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 a chosen? I don't even remember choosing ammo. I actually don't even remember what I chose to be honest. I'm glad I voted those aircraft loader jobs because 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 asks me 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 we build the good bombs. I knew if he wanted to do HVAC and I'm so glad I didn't get HVAC because those guys work super hard in this heat. Be station analysis. I mean but 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 to an actual job. I also thought I'd do in medical but I don't know. 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 a six I signed a four and I actually got glad I did because four years was plenty 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 and the end of the day I'll be doing five years but yeah I'd say if you're unsure if you want to make this a career not I think four years is a perfect amount of time and by that time if you decided yes it's for me this is what I want then you can easily reenlist for six six more years and you don't make it a career. As opposed to a few sign 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 had the four and it worked out just fine. Text school was which it was? Texas very northern part of Texas. Text school was I believe it's two months nothing too long nothing too short. Text 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 type 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 a type school because they feel the freedom and they just go crazy and this is where a lot of people scrub the careers and I'm gonna kick that out doing something stupid so I decided to stay away from all that and just wait until I left the test school to do the crazy stuff. So with ammo you can 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 forces stock probably munitions 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 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 I 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 opportunity if that's what you want to do oh this was 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 animations of 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 serviceability 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 the right amount and then when it's rated go we build everything up obviously and then we send out to the flight line or to whoever needs these ammunitions there's a lot more to it you can get special jobs special duties okay advice for a new airman it's all about the mindset keeping a positive mindset uh I run into a lot of people that have gone 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 ammunitions not for you then you always got that chance to cross string or just get out at the end of it but just accept it you're there uh 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 experiences different I personally I've had an awesome experience I've met great people I've got the chance to deploy do on the 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 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 there like everybody's real close to each other we may top-crap about each other sometimes but that's all I that's the name of the 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 if you want to ammo cause ammo balls all types of events um and I can honestly say it's it's been a great time uh I have about six or seven months left and I'm gonna separate so I'm going through that process but 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 on here but I do plan on working on it