About Us
The Professional Development Center provides Team Wright-Patt with comprehensive professional enhancement and development opportunities. Through information and training provided by Career Assistance Advisors (CAA), Air Force members are guided in making the best possible career choices.
How can a Career Assistance Advisor help me?
What is a Career Assistance Advisor?
The Career Assistance Advisor acts as the principal advisor to CCs and supervisors on retention issues. The program is designed to welcome and educate new FTA to the local base and assist supervisors when talking to subordinates about the benefits of Air and Space Force careers. Enlisted and Officer enhancement courses are conducted for CGOs, SNCOs, NCOs, and Airmen/Guardians and Informed Decision briefings for the first- and second-term Airmen/Guardians. The CAA also assists CCs and supervisors in career counseling and conducts advertising and publicity programs.
Career Counseling
- Retraining
- DSD
- Commissioning
- Career Progression
- Separation
- Assignments
- Retirement Guidance
Benefits Information
- Pay
- Entitlements
- Insurance
- TSP
- Leave
- Education and Support Agency Information
Development Resources
- FTAC
- Informed Decision
- Professional Development Seminars
- Total Force Development
- First Term Officer Course
Meet Your Career Assistant Advisor
Senior Master Sergeant Zengerle is the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Career Assistance Advisor.
She was raised in Pueblo, Colorado and enlisted in the Air Force in June 2002. Upon graduation of the All-Source Intelligence Analyst Technical Training school in February 2003 her first duty station was Langley Air Force Base, VA where she spent four years in direct support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom from the Distributed Common Ground System-One. Some of her other assignments included bases in Illinois, New Mexico, Texas and now Ohio. During her Air Force career, she has completed deployments in the following locations: Iraq, Afghanistan and Kenya.