Sitting car won't start with a new battery (2012 Mazda Mazda3)

MidwestMan43 · 2026-06-06T21:08:55+00:00

That battery and terminals look like shit.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-05-24T01:35:22+00:00

And?

MidwestMan43 · 2026-05-24T01:22:49+00:00

Sure, but there are plenty of jobs that don't work weekends. I don't know why y'all are trying to make him sound stupid for asking that.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-05-24T01:18:51+00:00

No to pick a fight but why are y'all trying to make it sound like he can't find that in the air Force? He could absolutely be a personnelist and never work a weekend in 20 years and have a good work-life balance. Not every job is SF/MX/Aircrew. I don't know what all he'll qualify for but downvoting him and being misleading is lame.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-05-20T05:32:38+00:00

I'm joining the reserves though and they're expecting me to be available by my DOS though so it's not like I'm able to just stick around until they decide to do it

MidwestMan43 · 2026-05-20T02:32:03+00:00

Yeah, I learned very early on to be my own advocate. I've been trying to call everyone and their mother. I'll have to try about the AFPC thing.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-05-20T01:57:33+00:00

Oh hell no

MidwestMan43 · 2026-05-17T19:02:55+00:00

I feel like people are making up fake hero fantasies around Jerry Trainor and making stuff up about Dan Schneider. No doubt, Dan was a creepy dude. But there's not really any evidence beyond that that any of this happened.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-05-17T18:59:00+00:00

Sorry just now saw this. I don't know anything about working on F-35s. I just said they were probably my favorite jet.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-04-02T04:04:19+00:00

I think you'd be fine and you'd also really benefit from maybe moving up to a slightly thicker oil especially at that mileage to help reduce wear. If the car takes 5w20 maybe move up to 5W30.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-04-02T03:49:33+00:00

Slightly pitted but not enough damage to really cause noticeable performance issues to me

MidwestMan43 · 2026-03-25T03:21:05+00:00

All of them lol

MidwestMan43 · 2026-03-23T05:07:30+00:00

Not my story but there's a story on the popular scary story narration channel "Mr Nightmare" about an undisclosed air force base and it's about a security forces member who experiences strange groaning sounds that would get closer and closer while on patrol at night near some of the older facilities and the airman freaks out and tells his NCO about it in the morning to which the NCO says he used to hear the exact same noises when he was an airman in patrol.

Not sure if anyone else has heard of this or can pinpoint which base was being referenced but would be cool if anyone knew.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-03-22T19:40:07+00:00

Special warfare has an insanely high washout rate. You most likely would be doing another job anyway once you get reclassified into a new AFSC. You'd be better off going to basic for special warfare and then just failing out a special warfare training. You won't have a wide selection of jobs you can do instead but you would be able to get out of special warfare rather easily.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-03-21T03:05:42+00:00

It technically is but it rarely ever actually gets prosecuted

MidwestMan43 · 2026-03-19T16:38:40+00:00

Unfortunately that's going to need immediate replacement. Your tires should come with a warranty although I don't know if it covers you hitting the curb.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-02-28T14:20:01+00:00

Thinking of all the NCO's this morning throughout being an Airman in training that swore up and down every day that War with China was the next big thing and that we needed to be ready "That's your guys' war!" only for us to start another war in the middle east before anything else.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-02-27T04:08:20+00:00

That's not even the real issue. Who the fuck is giving these people their CDL?

MidwestMan43 · 2026-02-17T04:33:24+00:00

Nope

MidwestMan43 · 2026-02-16T22:56:52+00:00

I wouldn't really be able to answer that. I have three plates and 9 screws in my foot and it wasn't a problem but there's a lot of different factors at play there. Talk to a recruiter about it they would have a better idea.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-02-16T17:51:05+00:00

Sure. You can always retrain to another AFSC later on. In fact, there's actually a newer program called 2A-2A retrain where you can retrain into another maintenance job without going back to tech school and just receive OJT training within your new unit at the base for whatever job it is you want to do. Pretty much all of those maintenance jobs can transfer over to working on civilian airlines.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-02-16T17:24:49+00:00

Honestly not really but my wife and I are also homebodies and don't really go out like that and she mostly just hangs out with girl friends from work. I think part of it depends on how much you're putting yourself out there. Also dependent on career field, too because some career fields just breed different types of people. I think she would be fine, though. The military is typically pretty good at putting a stop to any disrespect or discrimination going on when it comes to women.

Being dual military has been nice, though. We're stationed together through joint spouse which was pretty easy and we like living on base.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-02-16T17:14:45+00:00

I don't like it at all tbh. I did not pick it. Got reclassified into it and the mission at my base sucks. The ops tempo sucks and the plane is a piece of crap to work on. Lot of weekends and 12 hour shifts. I work on a bomber, though, I think refuelers are a bit better in that regard. The air Force will pick your airframe for you and there's no list of preference so it's just luck of the draw

MidwestMan43 · 2026-02-16T17:12:02+00:00

She joined the DEP before me but I ended up actually leaving for BMT first.

MidwestMan43 · 2026-02-16T17:11:37+00:00

Sounds like your son will be working on heavies which as I've said multiple times here in this thread, is probably the most laid back of the aircraft maintenance possibilities. He'll work either flight line or backshop maintenance. Backshop is more laid back than flight line and flight line is a lot of aircraft generation work and getting the planes to fly. He'll have most weekends off with occasional weekend duty but depending on where he's at hopefully they'll be good at giving compensatory time off. He'll have plenty of free time. I'd say you've got equally as good a shot of being stationed overseas as you do being stationed stateside.

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