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Males: 609

Females: 0

Total: 609

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Duties and Responsibilities

Plans, coordinates, and conducts Personnel Recovery (PR). Recovers priority aerospace personnel and material. Provides assistance in and performs survival, evasion, resistance, and escape (SERE).

Plans, coordinates, and conducts technical rescue. Employs specialized equipment and Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA) to access and recover personnel and/or equipment from avalanche, alpine, confined space/structural collapse, high angle, swift water, and underwater environments.

Plans, coordinates, and conducts emergency medical care. Employs specialized equipment and KSAs to assess, diagnose, treat, stabilize, and transport patients with minor to immediate life threating illnesses and/or injuries.

Plans, coordinates, and conducts support to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in recovery of aerospace personnel and materiel. Guides recovery of priority NASA space materiel.

Performs tactical mission planning and preparation. Understands special operations tactics, techniques, and procedures. Studies operational mission requirements. Rehearses mission plan, makes reconnaissance, conducts briefs, and loads and configures employment vehicles/aircraft.

Deploys into permissive, hostile, denied, or politically and/or diplomatically sensitive environments, and forward operating locations by land (mounted, special purpose vehicle or dismounted), sea (surface or subsurface naval vessel, small watercraft, self- contained underwater breathing apparatus [SCUBA], or surface swim) or air (parachute, airmobile, air-land) to participate in the full spectrum of military operations to include air expeditionary force, force projection, direct action (DA), counterinsurgency (COIN), counter narcotic (CN), counterterrorism (CT), countering weapons of mass destruction(CWMD), foreign internal defense (FID), unconventional warfare (UW), security force assistance, humanitarian assistance, hostage rescue and recovery, personnel recovery (PR), noncombatant evacuation operations (NEO) and advanced force operations (AFO).

Provides ground-to-air interface, keeping aircraft and monitoring authorities apprised of the status and requirements of the patient and mission. Performs, supervises, and evaluates overt, low visibility, or clandestine movement, search, contact, and on-scene authentication in permissive, hostile, denied, or politically and/ or diplomatically land and water areas.

Conducts discrete surface-to-air and surface electronic and visual communications and signaling activities. Maintains qualification on assigned primary, foreign, and crew served weaponry. Directs emergency close air support (ECAS). Provides reception for resupply operations.

Specialty Qualifications

This specialty requires: 

• The successful completion of the 1Z1X1 Technical Training pipeline.
• Knowledge of Air Force Special Warfare (AFSPECWAR) doctrine and implementation.
• Technical recovery operations; emergency trauma and field medical care.
• Mission planning and preparation.
• Aircraft and load characteristics.
• Infiltration and exfiltration.
• Insertion and extraction.
• Surface movement.
• Objective area actions.
• Debriefing and reporting.
• Team leader actions.
• Basic and advance parachuting.
• Adverse terrain and mountain operations.
• SCUBA and water operations.
• NBC warfare defense.
• SERE.
• Night vision devices.
• Firearms and munitions.
• Communications and signaling.
• Photographic documentation.
• Legal responsibilities and ethics.
• Vehicle operations.
• Security, occupational safety and health, administration, and publications.
• Individual fitness.
• Equipment qualification, inspection, maintenance, and accountability.

• Special Warfare Candidate Course. (SWCC)
• Special Warfare Assessment & Selection.
• Special Warfare Pre-Dive.
• Air Force Combat Diver Open Circuit.
• SERE Level-C Training.
• USAF Underwater Egress Training (UET).
• US Army Airborne Parachutist Course.
• Military Freefall Parachutist.
• Modernized Pararescue Provider Program (MP3). NOTE: Graduates of the legacy “Pararescue Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic Course” meet this requirement.
• Pararescue Apprentice Course.

• 1Z151. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1Z131. Also, experience performing Pararescue duties.
• 1Z171. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1Z151. Also, experience performing or supervising Pararescue duties.
• 1Z191. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1Z171. Also, experience performing or managing Pararescue functions as a Pararescue team leader.

• Successful completion of the AFSPECWAR Candidate Fitness Test (CFT).
• Air National Guard (ANG) and Air Force Reserve Command (AFRC) Pararescue candidates must complete the ANG or ARFC “PJ ONE LEVEL PROGRAM” for selection consideration.

• Successful completion of the AFSPECWAR Initial Fitness Test (IFT).
• Grade of E-5 or below with less than 10 years Total Active Federal Military Service who has not been eliminated from an AFSPECWAR pipeline course within the last 24months.
• Current commander’s written recommendation.
• Completion of, and selection by the Pararescue Retraining Assessment (AD only, AFPC will provide requirements upon retraining approval, includes passing a second IFT within 60 days of SWCC start date).

• Meet qualification standards to bear firearms IAW AFI 31-177, Arming and Use of Force by Air Force Personnel, AFI 36-2654, Combat Arms Program, and AFMAN 36-2655, USAF Small Arms and Light Weapons Qualification Programs.
• Meet physical qualification for Special Warfare as outlined in DAFMAN 48-123, Medical Examinations and Standards, and the accompanying Medical Standards Directory (MSD), Special Warfare column. Applicants must also meet physical qualifications for entry into sister service schools such as Army Jump, Freefall, and Navy Dive, as applicable.
• Must possess a valid state driver’s license to operate government motor vehicles (GMV) in accordance with AFI 24-301, Vehicle Operations.

• Maintain qualification as a static line and military freefall parachutist, a military scuba diver and IAW AFMAN 10-3500 V2, Air Force Special Warfare Standardization and Evaluation.
• Passing completion of the AFSPECWAR Operator Fitness Test (OFT).
• Maintain certification as a National Registry Paramedic and Tactical Combat Casualty care – Tier 4 (Combat Paramedic) certifications.

• Must maintain local network access IAW AFI 17-130, Cybersecurity Program Management and AFMAN 17-1301, Computer Security.
• Specialty requires routine access to Tier 3 (T3) information, systems, or similar classified environment.
• Completion of a current T3 Investigation required IAW DoDM 5200.02, AFMAN 16-1405, Air Force Personnel Security Program, is mandatory.
• 1Z171/91/00 personnel filling senior positions within 7PR and 81series UTCs and in key staff positions, require routine access to Tier 5 (T5) information, systems, or similar classified environments.

Civilian Career Options

High Salary: $208,000

Low Salary: $25,020

• Acute Care Nurses: $75,330
• Athletes and Sports Competitors: $50,850
• Broadcast Technicians: $43,570
• Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels: $77,130
• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary: $55,620
• Commercial Divers: $54,800
• Critical Care Nurses: $75,330
• Emergency Management Directors: $76,250
• Emergency Medical Technicians: $36,650
• Emergency Medicine Physicians: $208,000
• General and Operations Managers: $103,650
• Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Worker: $25,020
• Medical Assistants: $35,850
• Motorboat Operators: $55,910
• Paramedics: $36,650
• Security Managers: $98,890
• Surgical Assistants: $51,840
• Surveying and Mapping Technicians: $46,200
• Training and Development Manager: $115,640
• Training and Development Specialists: $62,700
• Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers: $96,390

***This information was retrieved from Veterans Job Matcher at CareerOneStop (www.careeronestop.org), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.

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