Saturday, June 8, 2013

Meetin with my recruiter for the first time

My husband has always been supportive of my dream to be in the Air Force. 
He has been in the military, but chose not to continue that path for his career, so now I am taking my turn at it.
Like I said before, I had just started the process of getting approved to join about two years ago when I discovered I was pregnant with our first son. 
I had only filled out some paperwork, had pictures of my tattoos taken, and signed up to take a practice ASVAB. 
I remember being super happy we were going to have a baby, but also a little disappointed I wasn't going to get to join. 

Now that our son is almost 1, I started looking at the option of joining again.
I brought it up to Hubs and he actually thought it was a good idea. 
He has an awesome job, but it's in the oil field, so his hours are always fluctuating and we want something more stable for our family.
This would also make it possible for him to go back to college, so really we both get what we want! 

So after thinking it through and talking about it to death, we were out to dinner and I got really anxious and wanted to go to a recruiters office. 
My husband called to see if the recruiter was still there and he was, but was about to leave for the day.
He asked my husband a bunch of questions that would automatically disqualify me before even coming to see him and luckily non of them applied to me so he made me an appointment for the next morning.
He told me to bring a number of documents.

We walked in and was greeted by Sgt. Garcia, whom is now my recruiter. 
We sat down and talked for a few minutes.
He asked me expected questions like why I wanted to join and things like that.
He weighed me ( I was 10 lbs under the limit, so I am good, but plan on losing more before MEPS)
and then I took a practice ASVAB there in his office. 
It was on a computer and all I was given was a scratch piece of paper and pencil.
It really wasn't that hard for me, except the mechanical and electrical stuff. ha
I made a 76. (you need a 50 to be qualified for the Air Force)
Since I passed, he made copies of the documents he had asked me to bring, made me answer some questions, and signed me up to take the real ASVAB.
There were some other things, like
medical records from a nose surgery I have had, college transcripts, and penicillin testing I had to get back to him.
That was about as far as we went until I took to the ASVAB to make sure I passed it.
(and I did. lol I made an 86)







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