A few days later I found I was assigned to be an air freight specialist.
My duties mainly involved loading/unloading cargo planes. 
It was mostly hard physical labor.  
The NCOs and civilians had a lock on the non-physical jobs. 
But I got to see a lot of the Pacific: 
California, Hawaii, Johnston Island, Guam, Japan, Thailand, Taiwan, Wake Island, Midway and even Vietnam (from the air).
It changed me from an introverted "99 lb. weakling" into a robust solid 185 lb extrovert.
And it kept me from becoming a lifer.  
I was mustered out after 3 years, 5 months, 7 days, 9 hours and 55 minutes with an (barely) honorable discharge.
And then I became an ex-Freight Ape.