Mentoring

Mentoring is a relationship in which knowledge and skills are shared between members in a way in which everyone benefits. Often a more senior person is mentoring a junior person, but mentorship can happen between any two individuals. Mentoring will help Airmen and Guardians discover their strengths by achieving their full potential through a structured, trusting mentoring relationship.

Find a mentor and become a mentor! It’s easy to do both by registering in MyVector. In 2021, we completely redesigned the Mentoring platform in MyVector based on your feedback. New features include:

Ability to self-identify as someone seeking a mentor or someone who wants to be a mentor
Track the status of their mentoring requests
Updated Resources page
Enhanced messaging capability that allows users to send messages to mentors
Additional search filters:
ethnicity, race, disability, Exceptional Family Members Program (EFMP), MAJCOM, organizations, and ranks
Ability for mentees to share documents with mentor
Sister Service mentor/mentee enabled capability
CFM ability to assign mentors to mentees (Spring 2022)

Log into MyVector, check out the new capabilities, and find your mentor today at https://myvector.us.af.mil!

F-22 Pilot Reaches 1,000 Flight Hours

Nellis Air Force Base

Video by Staff Sgt. Anthony Kuhn, Tech. Sgt. Colleen Urban

July 21, 2014 | 1:37

Sitting in the cockpit and prepping for flight is not something new to Major Matt Allen who has been flying the F-22 Raptor for nine years. But on this sortie, he hit his one thousandth flight hour, making him the first F-22 pilot on Nellis to do so.
“for fighter guys one thousand hours is a pretty big milestone, um usually it’s close to a thousand take offs and landings, uh one hour at a time, um, in the F-22 being able to do this is really a privilege.”
Hitting a milestone like this involves more than just the pilot.
“it’s a big team effort, so to get a thousand hours means maintenance had to turn about a thousand sorties for me , um and flew usually three other people during the sortie and three other F-22s, so a lot of people to make this happen, it’s really a special day"
One of those people was Major Allen’s crew chief who was one of the last to see him before he took off on his historic flight.
“you’re the one there to make him feel comfortable about taking that jet up, it all rests on you at that point, you’re saying that that jet’s good, he’s completely trusting in you so that means a lot.”
Reaching one thousand flight hours is an achievement only a few F-22 pilots can say they have accomplished. And now Major Allen is one of them.
Technical Sergeant Colleen Urban, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. More

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