Air Force jobs related to law enforcement?

You know a lot of people do this thinking that later on they want to go into civilian law enforcement and ergo their better option is to pick a LE field in the military. This is an Urban legend of sorts. What gives you a leg up on hiring later on for civilian law enforcement is the fact that you had a successful military career. You could be a bungee jumper fixer, it doesn't matter all that much. What they look at is, you are disciplined to get out of bed in the morning and go to work, you are drug free, you have a bit more education by the time you get out and just basically the things you learned in the military as to how to act like an adult and do the right thing when no one else is looking is what departments like most about prior military service. Does being SF or an Mp help here and there, maybe but not really. A successful period spent in the military is going to help you in the hiring process and even if you are an MP or SF I think you know by now by doing some research that you don't spend your entire time driving a patrol car going to calls etc. You get deployed, do your combat mission, AF Air Base Ground Defense etc. After 21 years in the Army Mp's I spent maybe six of those actually doing nothing but LE as in patrolling, as a traffic investigator and three years on the Desk. The rest of the time I was downrange conducting the other combat support missions that MP's do which in a lot of ways don't really relate to civilian LE. Do what you want but I believe you are going to find out later that much of what you did as SF or an MP is far from what an ordinary civilian LE officer does and as an example the next time a patrol car comes swinging through your neighborhood with a MK-19 blazing away from the roof you let me know :) Find a good job that you will enjoy and if it is SF then so be it but in reality it doesn't have to be. Serve your time, enjoy yourself, keep your nose clean and come out with an Honorable and an RE Code of 1 and you will be fine when applying for that department where ever you go. And College credits yes, I had a semester hour for physical fitness for example while getting my ociates years ago just from basic training so there are many that transfer over as well as the ones you can earn while on AD.