Air Force electronics jobs information??

I am interested in the following three electronics jobs when I joing the Air Force:





1. Network Infrastructure Apprentice (this job name may have just changed)





2. Satellite, Wideband, Telemetry Apprentice





3. Visual Imagery and Intrusion Systems Apprentice





Please dont give me a website, I just want first hand accounts of these jobs and what kind of duties they involve. What are the good and bad parts? How well do the skills for these jobs translate to civilian jobs?





Any insights into these or any other good electronics jobs would be greatly appreciated.

Air Force electronics jobs information??
Eh, finally a question that I can answer! Well, I am a 2E154, a Visual Imagery and Intrusion Detection Systems Journeyman. It is a pretty cool job. Most of the Intrusion Detection portions of the career field are getting contracted out, as well as the Video (Visual Information). I am stationed at Lackland (currently deployed, however), and we do Video there. Its not bad. The career field is constantly changing due to emerging technologies and the Air Force wants to keep "the leading edge" in the technological fight, so, we are moving up constantly and keeping our equipment beyond average means. We keep up with Sony, Panasonic, and Avid pretty hastily.





VIIDS isn't bad at all. You get alot of options for what you can do. You can be "traditional Air Force", work in a VIIDS shop, fix/maintain video/intrusion detection (alarm) things... or you can go into career field specific special duties. For VIIDS, you can do combat camera (deployed downrange and ensuring that video/photo are getting taken, while taking fire) or you can even go airborne and be assigned to a JTAC (Joint Terminal Attack Controller) Sepcial Forces Unit and you can set up surveillance/monitoring equipment behind enemy lines. How do you think we got video of the first bombs that dropped in Iraq, through JTAC Video Ops.





The IDS side, or BISS (Base Intrusion Security Systems) side of the career field, is a bit more traditional, but extremely important. We ensure the alarms surrounding priority 1 assets (nuclear weapons, etc.) are working in top notch. You need several clearances as well as PRP certification for this though.





In the civilian world, you can take this to alot of places and make some pretty good money doing so. Alot of civilian news agencies (CNN, FoxNews, local Affiliates) will hire former video maintenance people.





Keep note though, you are not an operator of this equipment, you are a maintainer. You just make sure it works.
Reply:What is good and bad about each job is going to be subjective to your likes and dislikes. A pararescueman will probably hate sitting behind a computer, so that would be bad to him, whereas a computer guy will probably hate being dropped into the jungle to adminster CPR to a fellow Airman...so that would be bad to him.





The thing you need to realize is that NONE of these jobs have absolute duties. You will be required to do some things that are outside of your primary AFSC. The question you should be asking yourself after reading the respective job descriptions is "What job would I ENJOY the most?" Because if you're not happy, you're going to be a miserable person to work with...and we don't need anymore of those.





All of that aside, I'd pick number 3 because it sounds like you'd get to work with NGA or OGA's...and that's what I find interesting. Good luck!

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