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!

Marrow Donor Saved Her

Irwin Army Community Hospital

Video by Jorge Gomez

Sept. 30, 2024 | 6:52

A leukemia survivor shares her incredible journey from an unexpected diagnosis to receiving a life-saving bone marrow transplant. She recounts how a 21-year-old international donor, a complete stranger, gave her the ultimate gift: a second chance at life. Her story highlights the profound impact that one person can make by choosing to become a marrow donor. As she reflects on the love and support from her family and friends, she urges viewers to consider the life-changing difference they can make for someone battling a deadly illness.

Music title "What We Don't Say" by Scott Buckley (@ScottBuckley) – released under CC-BY 4.0.

The “Salute to Life” Department of Defense Marrow Donor Program encourages and facilitates bone marrow and stem cell donations from military personnel, their families, and DoD civilian employees. It is part of a broader effort to support patients in need of life-saving transplants, particularly those diagnosed with blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, as well as other diseases that require bone marrow transplants. More

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