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Originally Posted by tkinsley
I'm at "lovely" Lackland AFB.... but will be PCSed to destinations unknown come July. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that this ISN'T to AK, since I already did a non-vol Korea stint and my husband (well, not until next month, but close enough) is stuck in the Houston area with his job--that flight on a monthly basis would be awful.
Why is it the AF always puts up bases in the most disgusting of places? I mean, WP is not exactly in the center of anything resembling a cultural mecca, either... ugh!
Hmmm.... developmental engineering sounds like social experimentation--what does a DE do?
Tina
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It depends on where you're stationed. Some of them are program managers for acquisitions projects for the air force. Some do developmental and operational test and eval (run test programs for new avionics or weapon packages for current/future aircraft for example). Some work at the research labs (and do very little from what I've seen). I got the one oddball assignment for engineers, I work at the intelligence center. Honestly, I'm glad that's where I ended up. At least there I get to see some interesting stuff and I'm not really doing anything engineering related. I was able to spend some time doing counterintelligence with a few federal agencies, and now it's more of the standard foreign intel stuff.
I like the air force and military and all that, but I'm separating because a career as an engineer in the air force isn't all that interesting to me. If I could have cross-trained into OSI I'd have probably stayed in for at least another 4 years.
I get the impression you haven't liked any of your bases so far :p I've only been to Maxwell and Wright-Patt, and WP is super extra awesome compared to maxwell. If I never see montgomery, AL again I'll be happy.