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Current Service Status
USAF Retired
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Current/Last Rank
Technical Sergeant
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Current/Last Primary AFSC/MOS
43270-Jet Engine Technician
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Current/Last AFSC Group
Aircraft Maintenance
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Primary Unit
1991-1993, 45450A, 96th Organizational Maintenance Squadron
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Previously Held AFSC/MOS
42633-Turbopropulsion Apprentice
42653-Turbopropulsion Mechanic
73250-Personnel Specialist
73270-Personnel Supervisor
43250-Jet Engine Mechanic
45450A-Aerospace Propulsion Specialist
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Service Years
1973 - 1993
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What are you doing now:
I am currently working at the Walmart in Kerrville, Tx. As was the case with the military, Walmart has adopted the "Do more with less" attitude. When i first started out with the company I was assigned to the housewares department, now 5 years later I am still assigned there but with additional duties in the Domestics, Furniture, Fabrics, Paint/Hardware departments... ( and now Apparel.... for that matter.. anywhere else they think they can force us to work for a while) and at the same stinking pay.
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Other Comments:
Prior to Wally World, I worked for a year at Coldwell Banker real estate company doing their MLS data entry. Prior to that, I worked in about 6 different real estate companies in the New Port Richey/ Tarpon Springs area of Florida (7yrs). Started out my real estate career in Abilene, Tx in 1994 after I retired from the AF. (My wife got tired of me sitting around the house for a year.) Family and I moved to Florida about a year after that where the wife and I obtained our Florida license... to which I still have an active license even though I no longer live there...
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1974-1976, 42633, 374th Field Maintenance Squadron
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1974-1976, United States Pacific Air Forces (PACAF)
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1976-1978, 42653, 314th Field Maintenance Squadron
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1978-1981, 73250, 6550th Air Base Group
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1981-1982, 73270, Space Division, Air Force Systems Command (AFSC)
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1982-1987, 43250, 37th Component Repair Squadron
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1987-1988, 3rd Aircraft Generation Squadron
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1988-1991, 45450A, 3rd Component Repair Squadron
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1991-1993, 45450A, 96th Organizational Maintenance Squadron
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Reflections on TSgt Carter's
US Air Force Service
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PLEASE DESCRIBE WHO OR WHAT INFLUENCED YOUR DECISION TO JOIN THE AIR FORCE.
I was a military brat. My father was career Army. He retired as a CW4 in 1974, the year that i graduated from tech school. He used to take my brother and I out to white sands missile range when he had to go out for launches.
My brother was also career military. He spent 4 yrs in the army, got out for a couple of years, then enlisted in the Air Force the same year I did. He retired as a CMS with 30 yrs.
So i guess they were my biggest influences on my decision to join the military.
I also have a younger brother who retired from the Navy with 22yrs. Between my father, 2 brothers and myself we have served our country for 102 years.
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