Operations personnel are the top of the class, acquisitions are government bureaucracy at its finest. - Program Manager US Air Force Employee Review

1.0
Aug 21, 2012
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Pros

The operational community features highly motivated, highly skilled professionals committed to accomplishing the mission with the highest standards of personal and professional conduct. Extensive focus is placed on leadership development and officers are given plenty of opportunities to excel.

Cons

The acquisitions community is a swampland! The officers are generally mediocre and unwilling to think creatively. The name of the game is bureaucracy, placing blame and doing as little as possible to get by. Blame shifting and blame placing are the key skills which seem to be rewarded followed up by brown nosing. Officers have so little authority in the career field that they suffer analysis paralysis, they seem incapable of making a decision with out excessive analysis, briefings and special studies. If you want to do great things, acquisitions is not the place to be. If you love pushing paper you'll love this place.

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5.0
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Pros

benefits are better than any job

Cons

lack of availability of mentorship

4.0
Jun 24, 2026
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Pros

Teaches you a trade while paying you. Social appreciation. Purpose. If you have no idea what you want to do with your life especially as far as a career goes, run to a recruiter. Regardless of whereever you come from a military career is your stepping stone into middle class and up living and career opportunity.

Cons

Every extra dollar you attempt to make beyond your rank will require more work than you will be paid to do. The real payoff monetarily you get from competing in the military will come in to play during your post life. Confidence, courage, accountability, etc are not standard attributes in people at all.

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