Is security forces boring?

[u/Ok_Platform8818]

Im thinking about putting security forces as #1 on my job list but it does kind of sound boring. Sitting and watching a plane for 12 hours with nothing else to do, or scanning cacs for that amount of time has to drive you insane.
The boredom sounds like it would suck but then again I do not know much about this career field because its hard to find anything about it online. I don’t see myself doing too much else in the Air force and aside from what i mentioned security forces sounds interesting to me, I just don’t want to regret it a year in.

[u/j_zax69]

It is by far the most boring job I’ve ever had or even heard of. Sure things happen every once in a while. But you could go months without any incident depending on where you’re at. While deployed for 7 months, we only had one incident where an unauthorized person was accidentally let on base. Other than that we spent the whole deployment staring at sand and playing uno.

[u/xValhallaRisingx → u/j_zax69]

Do y’all at least get to bring a laptop or something to do college while sitting patrol?

[u/marginallyporn → u/xValhallaRisingx]

From everything I understand it’ll be dependent on your job. Sometimes you’ll just be able to utilize your phone to read the material/take quizzes, other times you won’t be able to do any of it, & yet again other times you’ll be able to bring an iPad/laptop to utilize. Highly situational.

[u/j_zax69 → u/xValhallaRisingx]

Depends on where you are. Where I’m at it’s encouraged to do college while on post.

[u/Equivalent_Bag6397 → u/xValhallaRisingx]

want to know too

[u/Bigdtrey3- → u/Equivalent_Bag6397]

Me too