For Former Military Members Looking to Join the Foreign Service
According to the USAF Force Management website, a Reduction in Force (RIF) means that a lot of officers should consider the possibility of ...Read More
Showing posts with label USAF career. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USAF career. Show all posts
VA Math & Separation Pay
I recently received my Veteran's Affairs (VA) Disability Rating, but I hit a few snags along the way that the internet was unable to ans...Read More
My Military to Civilian Transition Summary
Since my military to civilian transition spanned the better part of 18 months, I thought it might be convenient to recap everything on one p...Read More
My Air Force Experience: I am a Veteran (11 of 11)
That's odd, I don't feel any different. But today is the first day in over a decade that I can no longer say "I am in the mili...Read More
End Of Tour Summary: My Air Force Career
Since I'm officially on terminal leave and my Air Force career has effective ended, it's as good of a time as any to recap my decade...Read More
My Air Force Experience: The Next Sortie (10 of 11)
It’s go time. Tomorrow is the first day of my new career. There is an indescribable feeling that comes over you when you jump out of a p...Read More
End of Tour Summary: Air Force Special Operations Command
I finished a two-year assignment to the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) staff working in the Plans, Programs, & Requireme...Read More
My Air Force Experience: Final Out-Processing (9 of 11)
So today I went through final out-processing from the military. While I'm technically on the books until the end of September, today is ...Read More
Closing up shop
I spent today clearing out my desk, writing farewell emails to my coworkers, shredding old documents and packing my personal gear into a bac...Read More
Date of Separation Established (8 of 11)
The promotion notification came out today. Staying true to my extended metaphor , I've been trying to gain as much altitude as possibl...Read More
The Promotion Board Field Message (7 of 11)
Knowing how your personnel system functions and how the information is transmitted can provide an interesting heads-up on what's about t...Read More
My Air Force Experience: A Future Decided Behind Closed Doors (6 of 11)
Well, today’s the day that people I’ve probably never met will determine if the people who wrote my officer performance reports (OPRs) were ...Read More
Considering my Options: USAID (5 of 11)
The bad news is that I did not pass my FSO Oral Assessment. You can find a description of the process here . I scored a 5.0 but I needed at ...Read More
Future Career Path Discussions with the Colonel (4 of 11)
My Foreign Service Oral Assessment invitation arrived today! 107 days since I took the Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) 66 days since I ...Read More
My Air Force Experience: Appeal Denied (3 of 11)
Anyone familiar with the military knows that appeals are anything but a sure thing. There are no historical rates available because the proc...Read More
Considering my Options: U.S. Foreign Service Officer (2 of 11)
To summarize how things have been going (within the extended metaphor of a plane losing its engines): I’m now more concerned about just maki...Read More
My Air Force Experience: An extended metaphor (1 of 11)
My career in the Air Force is best summarized as the extended metaphor of taking a flight from one place to another. Let's represent ...Read More
End of Tour Summary: Germany
We're finally departing Germany after being stationed here for 3.5 years. And we definitely tried to make the most of it by taking tri...Read More
End of Tour Summary: France
We visited France so many times during the 3.5 years we were stationed in Germany that I felt France deserved an end of tour summary page a...Read More
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