Space Force a reliable career path?
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Anonymous
| Thoughts? Haven’t met anyone in the SF but I’m intrigued about the fact that the age max is 42. I’m late thirties. |
Anonymous
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It is really hard to get into.
I can't imagine the Space force taking an older person in their late 30s. |
Anonymous
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Here you go...
Sign up! https://youtu.be/kvaDxbSIj5M?si=Fyw5oqyk6ZPSx8_z |
Anonymous
| The age limit applies to enlisted members. If you join before that, you can become an officer and stay to 62. You can also be a civilian employee and there’s no age limit. |
Anonymous
With a few exceptions, most USSF uniformed people change duty stations every 2-4 years. Most billets are either at bases along the Colorado Front range (Buckley, Schriever, Peterson), at launch sites (Patrick near Cape Canaveral or Vandenberg on the California coast), or in Metro DC. They also have a few billets on Kauai, in the UK, one isolated site in the Dakotas, and at each COCOM HQ. It is the smallest military (DoD) service. So it probably is the hardest military service to get an officer commission from. Their officers very often are STEM graduates, with a visibly higher percentage of STEM graduates than the other services. For that age, they likely would very strongly prefer a STEM graduate. AeroE, AstroPhysics, ECE, or CS degree would be examples of degrees they might desire. They also are setting up a part-time officer position. It is analogous to a reserve officer position in other services, but is structured in a new and unique way. Too early to know how well or poorly that will work. Good luck! |
Anonymous
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Why on earth would you want to do this??
I have 2 family members at NASA so have many many thoughts on this. They are really struggling right how. |
Anonymous
| Curiously, the Navy has a "space" officer career field. They usually want a STEM degree for those positions. Unclear to me exactly what they do. |
Anonymous
| How can we comment on whether its a reliable career path when you've given no background on your credentials, career desires, etc. |
Anonymous
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"https://www.spaceforce.com/apply-now"
Has more details for enlisted, officers, and civil service. |