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4-Year Bonus: None

6-Year Bonus: $35,000

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Top Secret

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Demographics

Males: 116

Females: 0

Total: 116

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Duties and Responsibilities

Plans, coordinates, conducts, and manages collection, verification, and transmission of time-sensitive, multi-domain reconnaissance and surveillance with focus on lethal and non-lethal air-to-ground integration of airpower. Reconnoiters and surveils activities of actual or potential enemies and enemy assets, routes, potential assault zones, targets, objectives, areas of interest, potential cache sites, recovery corridors, and infrastructure.

Plans, coordinates, and conducts Operational Preparation of the Environment (OPE) activities to develop knowledge of the environment, establish, develop, or verify human and physical infrastructure, and enable reception, staging, and onward movement, and integration (RSOI) of forces.

Plans, organizes, supervises, and conducts reconnaissance, technical, and physical surveillance, and mission rehearsals for target development and near-term DA. Refines location of identified targets and performs organic long- range precision engagement and target interdiction with focus on suppression of enemy air defenses.

Utilizes organic sources, and advanced technologies – including indigenous sources, sensing equipment, tactical (man-packable) cyber operations (CO) equipment, electronic warfare/attack equipment (EW/EA), and small unmanned aerial systems (SUAS). Reports current information relevant to the operating environment.

Performs collection of fidentity attributes and physical materials, and their processing and exploitation to support identification, -characterization, and tracking of threat actors and networks with focus on countering anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) threats. SR identity activities enable Joint Force Commanders’ ability to protect personnel and property, identify threats, and identify personnel who are authorized access to critical infrastructure, key assets, and cultural properties.

Plans, coordinates, and conducts environmental reconnaissance (ER). Observes, reports, and provides limited prediction of environmental factors related to surface weather, mountain/avalanche zones, littoral zones, riverine zones, and terrain traffic-ability.

Organizes, establishes, and maintains weather reporting networks using all variety of sensors, and through training/equipping host- nation, partner-force, resistance-force, and other indigenous personnel. Integrates ER with R&S, PE, and SUAS functionality to maximize collection. Performs tactical mission planning and preparation. Understands special operation stactics, techniques, and procedures.

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], closed-circuit underwater breathing apparatus[CCUBA], 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, DA, countering weapons of mass destruction (CWMD), counterterrorism (CT), unconventional warfare (UW), foreign internal defense (FID), security force assistance (SFA), hostage rescue and recovery (HR), counterinsurgency (COIN), humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, counter narcotic (CN), personnel recovery (PR), noncombatant evacuation operations (NEO), operational and intelligence preparation of the environment (OPE, IPE), and fire support operations.

Uses demolitions to create or remove obstacles to maneuver and to prepare tactical sites. Maintains qualification on assigned primary, foreign, and crew served weaponry, with emphasis on long-range rifle target interdiction.

Specialty Qualifications

This specialty requires knowledge of: 

• Joint principles of warfare including traditional, irregular, and unconventional.
• Joint service operations.
• JPP and mission planning/preparation.
• Joint and Air Force Special Operations doctrine and utilization.
• R&S fundamentals, principles, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP).
• Intelligence community doctrine, structure, and processes, and principles of JIPOE including human intelligence principles.
• OPE principles.
• Joint and Department of the Air Force publication use.
• Military weapons systems.
• Small arms to include long-range precision engagement and target interdiction equipment, and crew served weaponry.
• Topography and navigation techniques.
• Movement and route selection.
• Infiltration, insertion, extraction, and exfiltration methods.
• Night vision equipment, GPS and other operational equipment.
• Small unit tactics.
• Survival techniques.
• Vehicle operations including mounted and special purpose vehicles.
• Amphibious and water operations.
• Air operations including parachute procedures and equipment.
• Demolition applications.
• Antenna theory.
• Communications and signaling to include tactical EMSO, CO, and EW/EA.
• Operation and operator maintenance of R&S, EMSO, CO, and ER data collection and communications systems.
• Utilization/integration of R&S, EMS, cyber, and environmental information.
• Use of intelligence, EMS, cyber, and environmental products from operational and strategic centers.

• Special Warfare Preparatory Course.
• Special Warfare Assessment and Selection Course.
• Special Warfare Pre-dive.
• Special Warfare Combat Diver Open Circuit.
• Special Warfare Combat Diver Closed Circuit.
• SERE Level-C Training.
• USAF Underwater Egress Training.
• US Army Airborne Parachutist Course.
• Military Freefall Parachutist.
•  Reconnaissance Apprentice Course.

• 1Z451. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1Z431. Experience performing SR duties.
• 1Z471. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1Z451. Experience performing and supervising SR duties.
• 1Z491. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1Z471. Experience performing and managing SR functions as a Special Tactics (ST) team leader.

• Successful completion of the AF Special Warfare (AFSPECWAR) Candidate Fitness Test (CFT).
• Air National Guard (ANG) SR candidates must complete the ANG “SR ONE LEVEL PROGRAM” for selection consideration.

• Successful completion of the AFSPECWAR Initial Fitness Test (IFT).
• Grade of E-6 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 24 months.
• Current commander's recommendation.
• Completion of the SR retraining process, and selection by the SR retraining Assessment (AD Only).

• 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.

• Qualification, currency, and proficiency as a static line and military freefall parachutist, and as a military combat diver.
• Passing completion of the AFSPECWAR OFT.

• Must maintain local network access IAW AFI 17-130, Cybersecurity Program Management and AFMAN 17-1301, Computer Security.
• Specialty requires routine access to Top Secret material or similar environment including SAPs. Award and retention of AFSCs requires completion of a Tier 5 (T5) background investigation according to AFMAN 16-1405, Personnel Security Program Management.

Civilian Career Options

High Salary: $164,070

Low Salary: $36,190

• Administrative Services Managers: $103,330
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• Athletes and Sports Competitors: $94,270
• Bailiffs: $49,100
• Broadcast Technicians: $60,700
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• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary: $59,840
• Cartographers and Photogrammetrists: $71,890
• Coaches and Scouts: $44,890
• Computer and Information Systems Managers: $164,070
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• Computer Systems Analysts: $102,240
• Construction Laborers: $40,750
• Correctional Officers and Jailers: $49,610
• Data Entry Keyers: $36,190
• Database Administrators: $99,890
• Detectives and Criminal Investigators: $86,280
• Dispatchers: $44,830
• Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment: $64,030
• Emergency Management Directors: $79,180
• Emergency Medical Technicians: $36,680
• Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers: $71,690
• Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters: $56,670
• Firefighters: $51,680

***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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