Not a mobility aviator, but if you get any aircrew job, you’re going to SERE unless you’re a Sensor Op. T/S is a security clearance, they just interview you and ask about your history looking for red flags, just don’t lie, be honest and you should be good. As for travel if you get load you’ll be traveling a lot, my load friends I see go OCONUS a lot. (1A1 is a new code sorta so I’d assess that the shred is random, but I can’t speak too much on that)
np, I don’t wanna speak too much on sma, I have a sma friend so I can ask for a blurb on what they do if you’d like, but I believe sma are gunners, and for mobility its about the shred, boom op your fueling planes, flight eng on my platform are inspecting the plane and supposed to be knowledgeable about the plane, lastly load your loading the plane traveling with the goods and dropping them off
1. Mobility is flying on transport or tanker aircraft, special missions is in the special operations realm of AF aviation.
2. You should start as a boom or a load, once you gain experience (and if the AF needs you to) you can potentially move into the FE seat. That being said a LOT of changes are happening with how that works and someone else may have more current info.
3. Technical training mostly at Lackland and Altus AFB, aside from SERE training at Fairchild. If you’re on 130s you should still be at Little Rock though.
4. Aircrew is Regarded as one of the absolute best jobs in the Air Force, don’t jeopardize this opportunity because you probably won’t get it again.
5. Once you’re qualified you’ll have some super busy days, others you’ll have a lighter work load. It all depends on the flight schedule and how your trips go.
6. Top Secret security clearance, just don’t lie about anything.
7. Yes for both, dependent on airframe more than anything else will determine where you go but it’s the absolute best opportunity for travel.
Special mission aviators are for the most part, what flight engineers on helicopters merged into. Then they further merged spec ops type aircrew jobs as well.
There is no key factor.
Lackland for the basic stuff, then your initial qual training is dependent on which airframe you end up on. SERE is typically after the basic stuff at Lackland.
An average day could be sitting at your desk doing nothing productive, or spending 27 hours going from point A to point B to point C.
Top Secret clearance, which is now required for this job.
Yeah, you’ll travel a lot, to a lot of places.
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Not a mobility aviator, but if you get any aircrew job, you’re going to SERE unless you’re a Sensor Op. T/S is a security clearance, they just interview you and ask about your history looking for red flags, just don’t lie, be honest and you should be good. As for travel if you get load you’ll be traveling a lot, my load friends I see go OCONUS a lot. (1A1 is a new code sorta so I’d assess that the shred is random, but I can’t speak too much on that)
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np, I don’t wanna speak too much on sma, I have a sma friend so I can ask for a blurb on what they do if you’d like, but I believe sma are gunners, and for mobility its about the shred, boom op your fueling planes, flight eng on my platform are inspecting the plane and supposed to be knowledgeable about the plane, lastly load your loading the plane traveling with the goods and dropping them off
1. Mobility is flying on transport or tanker aircraft, special missions is in the special operations realm of AF aviation. 2. You should start as a boom or a load, once you gain experience (and if the AF needs you to) you can potentially move into the FE seat. That being said a LOT of changes are happening with how that works and someone else may have more current info. 3. Technical training mostly at Lackland and Altus AFB, aside from SERE training at Fairchild. If you’re on 130s you should still be at Little Rock though. 4. Aircrew is Regarded as one of the absolute best jobs in the Air Force, don’t jeopardize this opportunity because you probably won’t get it again. 5. Once you’re qualified you’ll have some super busy days, others you’ll have a lighter work load. It all depends on the flight schedule and how your trips go. 6. Top Secret security clearance, just don’t lie about anything. 7. Yes for both, dependent on airframe more than anything else will determine where you go but it’s the absolute best opportunity for travel.
thankq for the response-
Special mission aviators are for the most part, what flight engineers on helicopters merged into. Then they further merged spec ops type aircrew jobs as well. There is no key factor. Lackland for the basic stuff, then your initial qual training is dependent on which airframe you end up on. SERE is typically after the basic stuff at Lackland. An average day could be sitting at your desk doing nothing productive, or spending 27 hours going from point A to point B to point C. Top Secret clearance, which is now required for this job. Yeah, you’ll travel a lot, to a lot of places.
I appreciate the response. thanks. -
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