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JOIN OUR AWESOME VETERANS IN OUR NCO CDF DIVISION AND SERVE YOUR NATION AGAIN! Your oath never expires! Michelle D. KarkalikXII% Dirty Dozen Assistant Chief of Staff, National Intel, Vetting, and Security Officer.United State Air force (Active Duty) 1981 - 1992Jan - Mar 1981 -Basic Military training (BMTS) 3707 BMTS, Lackland AFB TX.AFSC or DOS 46230 - Aircraft Armament Systems Specialist, Lowry AFB , Colorado.I had my Top Secret Clearance before I left Basic training.Classified Schooling but what I can tell you is I learned about bombs, missiles, anything that explodes and can be launched from the ground or shot from an aircraft. Aircraft Speciality A-10 Thunderbolt. However, also learned about the same type systems on the B-52, F-16, F-15, F-111 and the systems on the Sr-71 Blackbird. Due to an illness that I contracted at Basic training and I had it for months, I lost my PRP - Personal Reliabilty status to handle Nuclear Weapons and weapons in general. So I was reclassified into Personal. During my wait to be reclassified I Worked at the ARPC - Air Reserve Personnel Center. I worked in the area where I put documents on microfische. I used my TS quite a bit here. I did assignment work for the reserve Personnel also. I waited for a few months then went to Keesler AFB MS.73230 - Personnel Specialist. Keesler, AFB, MS.Learned how to do all the paperwork that Personnel uses when you work in the CBPO - Consolidated Base Personnel Office. We use the paperwork for Promotions and testing, ID Cards for Military Personnel, Veterans, Retirements and Separations, Inprocessing, Outprocessing etc. All aspects of Military Personnel. After Keelser AFB MS I was assigned back to Lowry AFB CO. I worked in Student Assignments, Performance reports area (APR/OER), Student Assignments- Since we were a training base, Special Actions. I typed orders, did passports, got security clearances, reviewed performance reports, etc. During my time there I was on the Disaster Preparadness Team (Close to 4 Years) - In this Special Duty, in a real world situation , you would be the first person out to assess the situation. Is there a Bomb, what to do, is there a toxic agent in the air, what to do etc. Aircraft down, some one with explosives on them anything that could be a danger to the military personel , dependents and civilians on the base. When through the Decon and reported my findings to the Base Commander and or representatives. I did Pallet Loading on C-5s at Buckley Field in Colorado.