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!

Swedish pilots presented with U.S. Air Medal - Lt. Col. (Ret.) Tom Vetri

100th Air Refueling Wing

Video by Senior Airman Kelly OConnor

Nov. 28, 2018 | 4:43

Swedish air force pilots received U.S. Air Medals in Stockholm, Sweden, Nov. 28, 2018, recognizing their actions that took place over 31 years ago.

In this interview, Lt. Col. (ret.) Tom Veltri, SR-71 Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO) talks about the events that unfolded on June 29, 1987, the day the Swedish Viggen pilots rescued him. More

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USAFEAir medalBlackbirdSwedish air forceU.S. Air MedalU.S. Embassy StockholmViggenStockholm SR-71Krister SjobergRoger MollerLars-Erik BladPer-Olof EldhTom Veltir More