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, and it greatly improved their join-spouse assignment opportunities. She's definitely a rising star in the AF (this publicity didn't hurt her, that's for sure), it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest to see her become chief of staff someday.
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Not quite accurate as some would like you to believe. Being married to another pilot in the AF somewhat decreases the chance of joint-spouse opportunity, many times immensley. I've met Kim a few times, and I've worked with her husband for a year. The problem with joint-spouse is that both spouse can't be in the same squadron. It just happened to work out for them that they were at Pope, with two squadrons of A-10s there. He just got assigned to Nellis, but the only thing she's qualified to do at Nellis (in order to join him there) is fly UAVs, or teach at the Air-Ground Operations School. She's made it clear she doesn't want UAVs, nor does she want to take any other non-flying billet. She hasn't been to Korea yet (ie- overseas tour out of the way), so she's ripe for that. There's no other base they can go to other than Pope and DM where both of them can fly A-10s, since all the other bases have one A-10 squadron. IMO, it's not the best thing to be married to another military member if you're in the military, espeically if you're in different airframes (one in heavies, one in fighters). Too many I've seen haven 't worked out. Joint-spouses assignments are something personnel center will accomadate if they can, but there' s no guarantees. It's much easier if the military person you marry is in personnel, police, fire department, etc...eg- a job where they can go to any base.
My IMO.
