BENEFITS OF SERVING - BRIAN DENMAN

HONOR ACROSS ARMS

Service Years: 1999-2004, Bioenvironmental Engineering Career field. Responsibilities: manage activities in the fields of industrial hygiene, occupational health, radiological health, and environmental protection to ensure healthful working conditions. Accomplished by site inspection, emergency response to CBRNE events, review plans/ contracts, sample collection and monitoring. Basically OSHA, EPA, and Homeland Security rolled up into one.

Duty Stations: Spangdahlem AB, Germany, Robins AFB, GA, Deployed during Operation Enduring Freedom 2002.

Benefits of Serving:

Work Related: Gain experience, learn a trade (instead of going to college), increase your overall long-term marketability/employment, provide a stable platform for your career development (Core Values: Integrity, Service, Excellence), Educational/Training opportunities (inside and out of the service), challenge your skills/abilities (troubleshoot, research, problem-solve), increase your communication and team-work skills, become a complete professional, INVEST IN YOURSELF.

Individually Related: learn more about yourself (resiliency, self-awareness, overcome challenges, team-work) sense of belonging to something bigger (ie. Serving your country and community) develops some form of self-pride because of the hard-work and energy spent, travelling opportunities (both professional and personal related), develop new friendships and sense of camaraderie with people from all over the world, keep the family tradition going (3rd Generation Air Force enlisted), further my educational background, military and VA benefits, most importantly the friendships we develop through the whole experience.

* Military is a lot like college, except you’re getting paid to learn and work and not going into debt!