Summary
This AFSC is only open to Prior Service Members.
Conducts criminal, economic crime, counterintelligence, force protection, personnel suitability, computer crime, technical services investigations, counter threat operations, and special inquiries. Manages special investigations activities.
Technical School
Unknown
Other Names
OSI, Special Agent
Bonus
None
Badge
OSI Badge
Duty Identifier
OSI Duty Identifier
Clearance
Top Secret
Open Aptitude Category
None
AFSC Entry Requirements
Demographics
Unknown
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Duties and Responsibilities
Plans, conducts, documents, and manages proactive and reactive investigative activities. Interviews victims and witnesses and interrogates persons suspected of committing major violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and other laws.
Administers oaths to and obtains signed statements from persons interviewed and interrogated. Conducts crime scene searches.
Identifies, seizes, preserves, and safeguards evidence, and requests laboratory analyses thereof. Plans and participates in surveillance operations.
Conducts lineups and obtains suspect’s fingerprints and DNA. Conducts economic, violation of public trust, and environmental crime investigations.
Conducts liaison with counterpart investigative and security agencies. Identifies, tests, and recruits human sources of information.
Conducts intrusion and other computer crime investigations. Conducts computer forensics. Documents investigative activity in management information systems and provides detailed reports to command and legal authorities for their action.
Provides testimony in legal proceedings and regularly briefs command officials on the status of investigative services. Coordinates investigative matters of mutual interest with other local, state, federal, and foreign law enforcement, and security agencies.
Plans, conducts, documents, and manages counterintelligence and force protection investigative activities. Investigates allegations of espionage, sabotage, terrorism, subversion, and major security violations. Conducts deployed counter threat operations in austere/non-austere and permissive/non-permissive environments.
Establishes contact with host nation counterpart agencies and friendly forces to determine multi-discipline threats to USAF or DoD personnel, resources, and operations. Develops human source networks to obtain critical and timely threat information.
Collects, analyzes, documents, and expeditiously reports threat information to the appropriate command authorities. Conducts protective service operations, provides technical surveillance countermeasures support, and conducts special inquiry investigations.
Conducts defensive and awareness briefings on threat posed by foreign intelligence services, terrorist, subversive groups, and other threats.
Plans, conducts, documents, and manages suitability investigations to determine whether unfavorable information exists on persons regarding their character, loyalty, discretion, integrity, and financial responsibility.
Plans, conducts, documents, and manages technical services support to all AFOSI investigative mission areas. Performs preventative and corrective maintenance on equipment to ensure operational readiness.
Plans, conducts, documents, and manages Psychophysiological Detection of Deception (PDD) examinations and maintains equipment. Plans, conducts, documents, and manages computer crime investigations to include network intrusion investigations.
Specialty Qualifications
Knowledge is mandatory of special investigations policy, procedures, and techniques concerning criminal, economic, environmental, counterintelligence, force protection, computer crime and technical services computer use and operations.
Education-For entry into this specialty, high school or general educational development equivalency with computer use and operations, accounting and a foreign language is desirable.
Training-
For award of AFSC 7S031, completion of the Air Force Special Investigations Academy is mandatory.
Experience-
The following experience is mandatory for award of the AFSC indicated:
- 7S071. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 7S031. Also, experience performing and supervising functions such as investigations or inquiries.
- 7S091. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 7S071. Also, experience managing special investigations, activities, criminal, economic, and environmental crime investigations, counterintelligence, force protection, PDD, computer crime, and Technical services.
The following are mandatory as indicated:
For entry into this specialty, the following is mandatory:
- Must be at least 21 years of age by the time of acceptance.
- Ability to speak and write English clearly and distinctly.
- Qualification to bear firearms according to AFI 31-117, Arming and Use of Force by Air Force Personnel. Applicants must also demonstrate, either via live or dry fire, the ability to meet the weapons handling standards for the Handgun Training Program in AF Manual 36-2227, Vol 1, Combat Arms Training Programs Individual Weapons, Chapter 2, and the Basic Arms Training Course in AFOSI Manual 71-113, Firearms, Use of Force and Tactics, Table A5.1.
- 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.
- Specialty requires routine access to Tier 5 (T5) information, systems, or similar classified environments. For award and retention of AFSCs 7S0XX, completion of a current T5 Investigation IAW DoDM 5200.02, AFMAN 16-1405, Air Force Personnel Security Program, is mandatory.
- For award and retention of these AFSCs, certification by the Commander, Air Force Office of Special Investigations.
- For award and retention of these AFSCs, must maintain local network access IAW AFI 17-130, Cybersecurity Program Management and AFMAN 17-1301, Computer Security.
Civilian Career Options
High Salary: $116,350
Low Salary: $31,050
- Correctional Officers and Jailers: $47,410
- Detectives and Criminal Investigators: $86,940
- Digital Forensics Analysts: $92,870
- First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers: $60,910
- First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives: $92,970
- Forensic Science Technicians: $60,590
- Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts: $83,660
- Intelligence Analysts: $86,940
- Interviewers: $36,170
- Loss Prevention Managers: $116,350
- Police Identification and Records Officers: $86,940
- Private Detectives and Investigators: $53,320
- Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists: $55,690
- Security Guards: $31,050
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Shreadouts
None
Assignments
Unknown