Summary
Protects people, property, and the environment from fires and disasters. Provides fire prevention, firefighting, rescue, and hazardous material responses.
Technical School
Days: 68
Locations: Goodfellow AFB, Texas
Other Names
Fire Fighter, Crash Fire Rescue, Aircraft Fire Fighter, Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting, ARFF, Fire Dawgs
Bonus
4-Year Bonus: None
6-Year Bonus: $5,000
Badge
Civil Engineering Badge
Fire Protection Badge
Duty Identifier
FIRE Duty Identifier
Clearance
Confidential/Secret
Open Aptitude Category
General
AFSC Entry Requirements
Demographics
Males: 2986
Females: 68
Total: 3054
Community College of the Air Force Degree
Fire Science
CCAF Degree Plan
AFSC YouTube Videos
AFSC Reddit Posts
Duties and Responsibilities
Plans, organizes, and directs all fire protection activities. Analyzes fire protection operations, determines trends and problems, and formulates corrective measures.
Provides fire protection guidance. Coordinates fire protection support agreements and pre-
incident plans.
Executes and enforces the Fire Department Occupational Safety and Health Program. Conducts and evaluates training on specialized fire protection equipment and procedures.
Performs inspections and organizational maintenance on fire protection vehicles, equipment, and protective clothing. Manages and operates fire alarm communications centers.
Supports the electrical power production function with resetting aircraft arresting systems.
Provides fire prevention guidance. Performs project reviews to ensure fire safety feature adequacy.
Inspects facilities and identifies fire hazards and deficiencies. Determines fire extinguisher distribution requirements and performs inspections and maintenance.
Establishes public relations and conducts fire prevention awareness and educational training.
Controls and extinguishes aircraft, structure, wild land, and miscellaneous fires. Establishes an emergency operations incident command system.
Drives and operates fire apparatuses, specialized tools, and equipment. Conducts hose evolutions and pump operations and protects exposures.
Preserves and protects emergency scene evidence. Investigates fires to determine origin and cause.
Effects entry into aircraft, structures, and other enclosures. Shuts down engines, safeties ejection systems, and isolates utilities.
Conducts search and rescue operations. Administers emergency first aid. Protects people and the environment from hazardous material releases.
Specialty Qualifications
Knowledge is mandatory of:
- Fire department mission and organization.
- Safety requirements and objectives.
- Fire alarm and communications.
- Fire behavior.
- Portable fire extinguishers.
- Personal protective clothing and equipment.
- Forcible entry, ventilation, ropes, ladders, fire hose appliances, and streams.
- Foam fire streams.
- Fire control, salvage, overhaul, emergency medical care, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
- Rescue.
- Water supplies and sprinklers.
- Hazardous materials.
- Fire prevention and public fire education.
- Fire cause determination.
For entry into this specialty, completion of high school with courses in chemistry, general science, and mathematics is desirable. For AD and ANG personnel, completion of AFIT WMGT 570, Civil Engineer Superintendent Course is highly recommended.
For AFRC personnel refer to AFRCI 10-210, Air Force Reserve Command Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force (BEEF) Management, dated 14 Jan 14, para. 3.3 regarding completion of AFIT WMGT 570 course. NOTE: For AD, ANG and AFRC personnel, this is not a skill level awarding course.
Training-
For award of AFSC 3E731, completion of a basic fire protection specialist course is mandatory.
Experience-
The following experience is mandatory for award of the AFSC indicated:
- 3E751. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 3E731. Also, experience operating firefighting tools and equipment, extinguishing fires, rescuing personnel, and performing emergency medical care and CPR.
- 3E771. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 3E751. Also, experience performing or supervising fire protection functions.
- 3E791. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 3E771. Also, experience managing fire protection functions.
The following are mandatory as indicated:
For entry, award, and retention of this specialty and these AFSCs:
- No record of pyrophobia, acrophobia, or claustrophobia.
- Ability to speak distinctly.
- Must possess a valid state driver’s license to operate government motor vehicles (GMV) in accordance with AFI 24-301, Vehicle Operations.
- Normal color vision as defined in AFI 48-123, Medical Examinations and Standards.
- AFSCs 3E711/31/51/71 must meet physical standards according to AFI 48-123 and National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1582, Standard on Comprehensive Occupational Medical Program for Fire Departments.
- Specialty requires routine access to Tier 3 (T3) information, systems, or similar classified environments.
- Completion of a current T3 Investigation required IAW DoDM 5200.02, AFMAN 16-1405, Air Force Personnel Security Program is mandatory.
- Must maintain local network access IAW AFI 17-130, Cybersecurity Program Management and AFMAN 17-1301, Computer Security.
Civilian Career Options
High Salary: $94,240
Low Salary: $30,640
- Emergency Management Directors: $76,250
- Emergency Medical Technicians: $36,650
- Fire Inspectors and Investigators: $64,610
- Fire-Prevention and Protection Engineers: $94,240
- Firefighters: $52,500
- First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers: $78,870
- Forest and Conservation Technicians: $38,940
- Forest and Conservation Workers: $30,640
- Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists: $42,150
- Foresters: $63,980
- Hazardous Materials Removal Workers: $45,270
- Occupational Health and Safety Specialists: $76,340
- Paramedics:$36,650
- Public Safety Telecommunicators: $43,290
- Training and Development Specialists: $62,700
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