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Old 02-07-2009, 04:43 PM
 
Location: Northern VA
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I served 28 years as an enlisted woman in the dental career field and don't regret a minute of it. Well, maybe a minute or two ... It was a great job and the AF was very good to me and my family. One thing you may not know about is that currently in the AF, there is the opportunity to go to school full time at a civilian college to become a dental hygienist. I have been retired a few years so would need to confirm the program details if you want but, you must be a second termer (completed your first 4 years) and agree to stay on either 2 or 4 years after you graduate. It is a two year degree program. Dental hygiene is an excellent career option and your education is paid while you go full time as an active duty member (so receive your full pay check). If you are interested in more details, you can PM me or post here.. I am sure I can get the current specific info.
There are other great career fields and opportunities as well. This is a great venue to ask your questions.
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Old 02-07-2009, 07:58 PM
 
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I have no personal experience but I have a 21-year-old daughter and she says all her friends who have joined the military say it's the best thing they ever did. She's not interested in joining, but she says they all like it. She has a female friend who joined the Air Force and loves it.
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Old 02-07-2009, 10:45 PM
 
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Great post, Luzianne! PrettyMissAshley(and anyone else considering serving in the military), I can't think of a better way to spend four years of your life when you're young. The experiences you'll have, the personal growth you'll experience and the people you meet will make it all worthwhile. You may not want to stay more than your initial enlistment. And that's fine. But the military will be a springboard to any other career aspirations you have. And you'll be amazed at the abilities that military service will give you, even if you think your military specialty has no civilian application.

As far as a military job, it's great if you already know what you want to do and are able to get into that job when you enter the service. But I'm the perfect example of enlisting just to "go see the world" and ending up enjoying a military specialty that I would've never otherwise considered.

Even if they have no slots available in your chosen job when you enlist, there is a possibility you might be able to retrain into it (or some other specialty you may come to be interested in) later. Something many people are not aware of; the military has many "special duty" jobs that you can do in addition to (or in place of) your regular specialty. Everything from Recruiter to Military Training Instructor to Postal to even Flight Attendant on Air Force One!

Best of luck!
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Old 02-08-2009, 07:22 PM
 
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I'm Army Public Affairs, Ashley. It's an awesome career field. I won't debate the various merits of Army vs. Air Force (I'm biased of course), but I'll point out some positive things about PA. It's similar in the Army and the Air Force -- we go to the same school, in Fort Meade, Md., right outside of D.C. -- and do similar jobs, just for different services. If you want to meet celebrities, politicians, high ranking officers, media members and just good regular folks, it's a great job. If you like to write, take photographs and make arrangements for events, this could be a good job for you. A related career field, which is also great, is broadcaster. You can get a job working for AFN. Look over your options and decide what suits you best, but this is definitely a good one. I don't know anyone who has ever chosen this career field who has regretted it.
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Old 02-15-2009, 09:33 AM
 
Location: Va Beach
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I thoroughly enjoyed the military and still work with them. My son is in the Air Force and I'm so glad he decided to follow my footsteps. He was never a bad kid, but more of a computer geek, very intelligent and worked his way through college in computer science. We have seen him grow so much and he's not only changed mentally, but physically. He's not a scrawny kid anymore, but a well built young man who we are very proud of.
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Old 02-15-2009, 08:40 PM
 
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I'm not a female but I did serve in the air force for 6 years back in the mid-90's. I got out of the air force back in 2000 after serving 4 years active duty and 2 years in the reserves. During my 2 years in the reserves I can't tell you how many people I saw transfering from the army and/or marines into the air force. I'm not sure what the attraction is to the army or marines, I mean the military is the military, don't get me wrong, and the pay is the same no matter if it's army, air force, navy, coast guard or marines. But for some reason or another I saw alot of people realizing after about 2 or 3 years in that they made a mistaken and should've joined the air force. Every day at the air force dining hall it was filled with people from the army, no doubt about it. I was stationed at Elmendorf AFB in Anchorage, Alaska and Fort Richardson was attached to our base and every day at lunch it was filled with army personnel. I went over to the army dining hall one day and soon realized why those army guys came to our place to eat. My dad was a marine and when I wanted to join he told me, go air force! He doesn't regret going into the marines but he told me when he was in the air force lived like kings, especially when it came to living quarters, and I'm telling you right here right now that it's definitely true! Aim High
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Old 02-19-2009, 08:58 AM
 
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I served 28 years as an enlisted woman in the dental career field and don't regret a minute of it. Well, maybe a minute or two ... It was a great job and the AF was very good to me and my family. One thing you may not know about is that currently in the AF, there is the opportunity to go to school full time at a civilian college to become a dental hygienist. I have been retired a few years so would need to confirm the program details if you want but, you must be a second termer (completed your first 4 years) and agree to stay on either 2 or 4 years after you graduate. It is a two year degree program. Dental hygiene is an excellent career option and your education is paid while you go full time as an active duty member (so receive your full pay check). If you are interested in more details, you can PM me or post here.. I am sure I can get the current specific info.
There are other great career fields and opportunities as well. This is a great venue to ask your questions.
would you say it would be a good program for a college graduate who is married
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Old 09-07-2009, 03:14 PM
 
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I am a 17 year old high school female, I am interested in joining the AF. I have noticed that a lot of women have been killed in action. How concerned do I need to be about this?
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Old 01-08-2010, 09:44 AM
 
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I served 28 years as an enlisted woman in the dental career field and don't regret a minute of it. Well, maybe a minute or two ... It was a great job and the AF was very good to me and my family. One thing you may not know about is that currently in the AF, there is the opportunity to go to school full time at a civilian college to become a dental hygienist. I have been retired a few years so would need to confirm the program details if you want but, you must be a second termer (completed your first 4 years) and agree to stay on either 2 or 4 years after you graduate. It is a two year degree program. Dental hygiene is an excellent career option and your education is paid while you go full time as an active duty member (so receive your full pay check). If you are interested in more details, you can PM me or post here.. I am sure I can get the current specific info.
There are other great career fields and opportunities as well. This is a great venue to ask your questions.

Ok i am thinking about joining the air force and i want to become an dentist assistant so how do i go about doing all of that
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Old 01-08-2010, 12:29 PM
 
Location: New Mexico U.S.A.
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Ok i am thinking about joining the air force and i want to become an dentist assistant so how do i go about doing all of that
Here are two pages you can read up on while more answers come in:
4Y0X1 - DENTAL ASSISTANT

Dental Assistant Apprentice - Enlisted Careers - AirForce.com
Your local recruiter should be able to help and see if you are qualified, there are some tests to take and a medical exam, that is for all people who wish to join the miliatry.


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