Summary
Mentors, Trains, and Leads assigned non-prior service enlisted Airmen during initial skills technical training and Air Force Cadets attending Air Force Academy Parachute School; includes Total Force Liaisons assigned to basic military and technical training locations. Evaluates and reinforces standards of conduct/performance, military bearing and discipline while scheduling and conducting military training functions.
Other Names
Blue Rope
Community College of the Air Force Degree
Education and Training Management
CCAF Degree Plan

Duties and Responsibilities
First-line Supervisor to non-prior service enlisted Airmen; ensures Airmen continue to maintain military standards/discipline learned during Basic Military Training. Monitors safety in formations, dormitories, and sports.
Ensures students maintain personal and professional appearance and fitness standards. Ensures students comply with directives/orders, develops healthy followership attitude, and continue to assimilate to the Air Force way-of-life.
Monitors and conducts personal and professional training/development aligned with enhancing the Profession of Arms within the unit. Plans, organizes, and directs military education instruction.
Determines appropriate instruction methods considering the group size and subject matter. Conducts instruction using demonstration-performance and lecture methods.
Maintains thorough knowledge of and instructs personnel in drill, parades, retreats, and reviews. Provides supplemental military training.
Advises and counsels Airmen. Establishes and conducts incoming, outgoing, and student entry briefings.
Conducts individual and group interviews. Motivates personnel to develop military attitudes, effective human relations, and social skills for improving interpersonal and military relations.
Assists students in their personal adjustment to military life. Applies counseling techniques and military experience to counsel airmen with training, military bearing, and behavior problems.
Refers students to the appropriate staff agency when necessary. Identifies airmen unfit or unsuitable for retention in the Air Force.
Prepares and maintains files and records, such as Collateral Training Folders, on military education and counseling matters. Prepares statistical reports and records about student accountability.
Accounts for assigned students and maintains general military training forms. Maintains duty rosters and forms and assures squadron details are distributed fairly.
Conducts facility management duties for non-prior service dormitories. Assigns Airmen to living quarters and ensures positive key control. Establishes security and accountability measures for residents.
Ensures Airmen preserve healthy standards of living and assume effective stewardship of living space/dormitory. Conducts periodic safety exercises for Airmen. Leads dormitory health and wellness inspections as directed.
Establishes and conducts in-processing, out-processing briefings. Conducts pre-departure briefings for weekend liberty, holiday, and leave. Liaison to Military Personnel Flight concerning Airman assignments and records processing. Assists with Recruiters Assistance Program application.
Guides and assists in selecting, training, and evaluation of Airmen in developmental programs (i.e., Airmen Leaders, Drill Team, Drum and Bugle.)
MTLs at USAFA (J8B100); Advises, counsels, and reinforces military standards/discipline for officer cadets while conducting freefall instruction.
Total Force Liaisons coordinate all delays, order modifications and student actions impacting training for ANG/AFR Airmen in training.
Specialty Qualifications
Knowledge is mandatory of:
- Military training learning processes.
- Counseling methods.
- Training evaluation and techniques.
Mandatory Airman Leadership School.
Training-
Completion of the Military Training Leader course is mandatory. For retention of this SDI, Military Training Leaders must complete qualification training on Career Field Education and Training Plan (CFETP) core tasks within 6 months of assuming position.
NOTE: Completion of these requirements is optional for ARC Liaisons.
Experience-
N/A
Other-
The following are mandatory as indicated:
For entry into this SDI, the following are mandatory (may be waived by the Career Field Manager on case-by-case basis):
- E-5 through E-7 must be able to obtain 4 or more years retainability prior to current grade HYT.
- Skill-level commensurate with grade.
- Outstanding, military bearing, professional military image, and conduct both on/off duty.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and have empathetic understanding of the problems of Airmen away from home in a new environment.
- Interview and favorable recommendation by a psychologist, social worker, or psychiatrist.
- Never been permanently decertified from Military Training Leader duties.
- No record of disciplinary action resulting in an Article 15 or Unfavorable Information File for the past three years.
- Ability to speak distinctly.
- Interview and favorable recommendation by a psychologist, social worker, or psychiatrist.
- Overall rating of "Exceeded some, but not all expectations" or "Exceeded most, if not all expectations" on last 3 EPRs.
- Never been convicted by a general, special, or summary courts-martial.
- Applicants must have scored a 75 or above on the last three AF PT tests. Must not have PT failures during the last 12 months for any portion of the PT test. Must have tested on all components during most recent AF PT test. No current PT exemptions; except deployment and/or pregnancy.
- No record of emotional instability, personality disorder, or other unresolved mental health problems that interfere with the ability to perform Military Training Leader duties.
- No record of substance abuse, domestic violence, or child abuse.
- No record of non-judicial punishment or administrative action (Letter of Counseling, Letter of Reprimand, Letter of Admonishment, or Record of Individual Counseling) reflecting a lack of behavioral/emotional control or dereliction of duty.
- No record of non-judicial punishment or administrative action (Letter of Counseling, Letter of Reprimand, Letter of Admonishment, or Record of Individual Counseling) based on sexual assault, sexual harassment, physical or mental abuse or unprofessional or inappropriate relationship as defined in AFI 36-2909, Professional and Unprofessional Relationships and/or AETC’s Recruiting, Education and Training Standards of Conduct.
- Never been convicted by a civilian court of Category 1, 2, or 3 offenses, nor exceeded the accepted number of Category 4 offenses. Category 3 and 4 traffic offenses alone are not disqualifying.
For retention of this SDI, the following are mandatory:
- Maintain entry requirements.
- Must maintain local network access IAW AFI 17-130, Cybersecurity Program Management and AFMAN 17-1301, Computer Security.
- No record of non-judicial punishment or administrative action (Letter of Counseling, Letter of Reprimand, Letter of Admonishment, or Record of Individual Counseling) for Trainee Abuse and Hazing as defined in AETCI 36-2909, Recruiting, Education, and Training Standards of Conduct.
- Never been permanently decertified from Military Training Leader duties.
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Civilian Career Options
High Salary: $66,490
Low Salary: $59,840
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School:$62,630
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary: $59,840
- Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School: $62,500
- Instructional Coordinators: $66,490
- Training and Development Specialists: $63,080
