Air Force Career Paper

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Introduction
The career I have researched is a government job for the United States Air Force. This job involves you being in a group called a unit and there are many units at the base. The unit I will be talking about is called COMM. COMM stands for one word and that is communications. I have choose this topic for my research paper because my family has been through this branch of the military for now two generations now and I have always wanted to go through and be in the Air Force and would make my grandfather very proud if I completed everything and became a solider in the Air Force. I also want to do something to serve my country because I know it’s the right thing to do. I hope to learn about all the up and down sides to this job and what it takes to
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I hope to learn what it takes to become a U.S. Soldier in the United States Air Force, and how much work and dedication I will have to put in to working for my country.

Career
The work conditions for this job are very pleasant. I went down and job shadowed and got to see in real life a little of what they do there at the wright Patterson base. They have a good relationship with one another they are just like big family the like to joke around with each other. Jermain the leader in that group that I job shadowed told me that they actually love their job and everybody they work with. They do most of the repairing on the computers and other things. When I was there I went on a couple of jobs with them and they went to one building and had to fix certain things like in the one room they had like seven desktops that people said things were wrong with then in another room they had to fix another desktop that was not booting up correctly. So what they were doing there is pretty interesting to me. They really don’t carry around any equipment they have a bag that has certain things like screws and screw drivers and other stuff like that but most of the stuff they might

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