[the__alchemist]

Fighter WSO. Adventure, comradery, great group of colleagues with a diverse initial background, and shared recent background. My desk job responsibilities are limited, so I usually go home after debrief and do/learn whatever I want, and work on projects. Liberal leave policy. Just hoping I don't end up with a chronic neck/back injury, or die in a crash.

[wikidani]

That's awesome! What do you fly in? I'd love to know more about your day :D

[the__alchemist]

Strike Eagle. Days vary significantly based on the sched. Generally: Show up, prep as required, brief, put on gear, fly, debrief, go home, or have a drink in the squadron bar. Sometimes it's a desk duty instead, like briefing the crews who fly and doing coord with maintenance, or sitting in the ATC tower and coording emergencies, weather contingencies etc. Sometimes it's a sim (realistic video game with full mockup cockpit) Sometimes its meetings, academics, training etc. You generally have a desk job too that you change out once a year or so, but many of those are being supplemented by civilians who do it full time.

Unfortunately, the computers used for the desk jobs are horrendously broken. Ie, takes ~30 mins to go from log-on to getting email up; everything has a long response time. Opening a PDF to sign or fill out takes 1-3 minutes or so each.

[wikidani]

Apparently computers are crappy along the enitre DoD huh, I've heard that form every branch now. Your job definitely sounds interesting, did you have to go through SERE or is it just pilots?

[the__alchemist]

Yes on SERE