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There was an opportunity in high school 

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to apply to Junior Reserve Officer 

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training corps . I had a senior NCO 

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that really inspired me to look to the 

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Air Force to serve something bigger 

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than myself . And so that's really the 

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motivation that spurred me to going 

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into the air force . My name is 

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Lieutenant Kevin Tran and I am a space 

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launch engineer working at the National 

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Space Intelligence Center . So my role 

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as a space launch engineer involves 

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modeling and simulation specifically at 

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the National Space Intelligence Center . 

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Really for my daily job , I focus on 

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modeling and simulation for foreign 

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space launch vehicle trajectories where 

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they're going , what their intended 

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orbit is and all the engineering that 

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goes along with that 

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the military has a variety of different 

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jobs , right ? It's not just you're out 

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in the field , shooting guns , there's 

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medical , if you wanted to pursue the 

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doctor route , there's J A . So you can 

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be a lawyer , you could be a civil 

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engineer working on infrastructure and 

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software engineering related career 

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fields . There's all kinds of diverse 

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career fields that you're able to be a 

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part of or involved in . I think the 

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benefit of being in the space force is 

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that you're able to make a bigger 

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impact than what you would at 

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say , a contractor job . And especially 

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with the space force being so diverse 

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in terms of mission sets , you're just 

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exposed to a variety of different 

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environments . And so with that type of 

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exposure , valuable experience that you 

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are able to leverage for future 

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opportunities .