Air Force Admissions Essay
DESIRABLE FACTORS STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS
(1) A complementary assignment in another career area such as: program management; logistics; financial management; plans and programs; or R&D, T&E, or product engineering management is highly desirable.
I believe I exceed this desirable factor with past and present Air Force assignments. My present duty is as the Director of Safety for AFMC’s Air Armament Center (AAC) is one such example as I am involved with most of the activities ongoing here at the AAC in some capacity.
As the Director of Safety, while not always directly involved in “hands-on” R&D and T&E, I serve as part of AAC’s team in acquiring the world's most superior armament products. Through the Non-nuclear Munitions Safety …show more content…
While in J3 as the Chief of the Fighter and Contingency Operations Branch I wrote the plan (classified) for air sovereignty alert posture currently being employed today in the GWOT. I also wrote Operations Orders 3115 and 3117 for and escorting and intercepting Soviet bombers along the Canadian and American ADIZs during the Cold War. But probably one of the most challenging plans to write was the escort of Soviet fighters to air shows and the Goodwill Games in Seattle during the early 90’s. This was accomplished before Open Skies so that the Russian fighters (MiG-29s and Su-27s) had to always be escorted in flight and there were certain areas of the United States the Russians were prohibited to over-fly.
As the Inspector General it was incumbent to be the Plans “expert.” We conducted NORAD Operational Evaluations of all NORAD Regions, Combined Operational Evaluations of NORAD command and control centers such as the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center and alert force evaluations of alert fighters in both Canada and the US under a range of missions. Following 9-11 these evaluations included all fighters executing Operation NOBLE EAGLE sorties throughout North
(1) A complementary assignment in another career area such as: program management; logistics; financial management; plans and programs; or R&D, T&E, or product engineering management is highly desirable.
I believe I exceed this desirable factor with past and present Air Force assignments. My present duty is as the Director of Safety for AFMC’s Air Armament Center (AAC) is one such example as I am involved with most of the activities ongoing here at the AAC in some capacity.
As the Director of Safety, while not always directly involved in “hands-on” R&D and T&E, I serve as part of AAC’s team in acquiring the world's most superior armament products. Through the Non-nuclear Munitions Safety …show more content…
While in J3 as the Chief of the Fighter and Contingency Operations Branch I wrote the plan (classified) for air sovereignty alert posture currently being employed today in the GWOT. I also wrote Operations Orders 3115 and 3117 for and escorting and intercepting Soviet bombers along the Canadian and American ADIZs during the Cold War. But probably one of the most challenging plans to write was the escort of Soviet fighters to air shows and the Goodwill Games in Seattle during the early 90’s. This was accomplished before Open Skies so that the Russian fighters (MiG-29s and Su-27s) had to always be escorted in flight and there were certain areas of the United States the Russians were prohibited to over-fly.
As the Inspector General it was incumbent to be the Plans “expert.” We conducted NORAD Operational Evaluations of all NORAD Regions, Combined Operational Evaluations of NORAD command and control centers such as the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center and alert force evaluations of alert fighters in both Canada and the US under a range of missions. Following 9-11 these evaluations included all fighters executing Operation NOBLE EAGLE sorties throughout North