My Son Left for the Air Force today...

Tango Yankee said:

North Dakota... brrrrrrrr!

If I could give your son one bit of advice (actually, I've got lots of advice to give, but that's the Senior in me coming out! ) it would be to put in for overseas. I recommend Europe, but I'm partial to that area over the Far and Middle East.

One of the great things about the service is the opportunity to live in other cultures, to go places and do things that many people only dream about. He should take advantage of that opportunity!

I'm actually attempting to get back into the Air Force myself. I miss it quite a lot, and there's not much work for my career field in my area (IT management). It happens the AF is advertising for IT personnel for civilian positions, so I'm applying and volunteering for both stateside and European locations. I decided against Kuwait--been there enough times and like I said, not a fan of the middle east.

Best of luck to your son at his first assignment!

Regards,
Tom Yeager, SMSgt, USAF, Ret.

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Tango Yankee said:

One of the great things about the service is the opportunity to live in other cultures, to go places and do things that many people only dream about. He should take advantage of that opportunity!

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Babydoll said:

I have a nephew who will be doing this exact thing next month. He's going to be stationed in Okinawa for two years. I'm sad that I won't get to see him often (if at all), but I'm really excited for the adventures he'll get to have over there!

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RebeccaDoll said:

I wish your son all the best, and to you, I can't possibly know how you are feeling.

I am a recent Private in the Canadian Air Force, and boy did my mother take it hard when I left for Basic. You are just so busy on basic training, and I hope he can make regual contact with you during his course - I don't know what they do in the US military, but everytime we got letters, we had to do embaressing dances and songs or the staff's amusement - send him letters, send him your love. I recieved loads of letters and the embaressment was worth every single one when times got tough.

My mother said she kept busy enough, she knew she wouldn't hear from me by letter (hard to find time to write back), but at the mid-point on my course, we got 22 hours of leave, and I must have spent 2 hours on the payphone, telling her about how much fun I was having (yes, I had fun at basic training, inbetween the push-ups).

Good luck to him, and good luck to you - take lots of pictures of him on his graduation in those lovely dress blues and number 1 hair cut, you'll be so proud.

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Big Man said:

Please pass along my congratulations to your son.

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