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!

Standing Watch: Research Helps Shape Tsunami Models and Weather Forecasts

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center

Video by Marisa Gaona, Desiree Kapler, Timothy Reeves, Shelley Tingle

Aug. 5, 2025 | 18:37

Recently, a powerful earthquake near Russia’s northern Pacific coast triggered a tsunami that set off alerts across the Pacific Ocean basin, including coastal communities in Alaska, Oregon, California and Hawaii.

For hours, buoys throughout several networks – including the Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis network – tracked the tsunami’s speed and resulting wave heights, giving emergency officials throughout the region critical data points to decide when to issue evacuation alerts.

As the waves made their way across the ocean, traveling as much as 500 miles per hour, engineers and scientists were running models, collecting data and watching. Thankfully, the tsunami greatly dissipated, resulting in minimal damage across the region.

For decades, the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), in collaboration with other federal agencies and universities, has used buoy data to develop, enhance and share high-performance wave and storm models. These models will be further enhanced with the data collected from this recent event.

Drs. Kate Brodie and Ali Abdolali, oceanographers with ERDC’s Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory, discuss the tsunami and the ongoing research into better understanding the threat posed by severe weather events. More

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