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6-Year Bonus: $20,000

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Males: 536

Females: 6

Total: 542

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Duties and Responsibilities

Deploys in support of operational requirements for theater and Joint Force Commanders asin-theater SERE and PR subject matters experts (SME) to support conventional and Nonconventional Assisted Recovery (NAR). Manages development and coordination of SERE and PR operations.

Manages SERE programs including isolated personnel reports (ISOPREP), evasion plans of action (EPA), blood chits, evasion charts (EVC), and PR aids. Augments Joint Personnel Recovery Center (JPRC), Unconventional Assisted Recovery Coordination Center (UARCC) and all DoD Components Recovery Coordination Cells (PRCC) as SERE and PR SME. Synchronizes JIIM efforts for full spectrum personnel recovery. Assesses and develops partner nation PR capabilities.

Plans, coordinates, and conducts Operational Preparation of the Environment activities with operations and intelligence directorates of the DoD, external agencies, NATO, and coalition entities to develop and establish physical infrastructure to support areas for evasion, recovery corridors, contact sites, and potential cache sites. Responsible for the verification and transmission of areas for evasion, recovery corridors, contact sites, areas of interest, potential cache sites and infrastructure.

Deploys into permissive, hostile, denied, or politically and/or diplomatically sensitive environments, and forward operating locations to participate in the full spectrum of military operations to include air expeditionary force, force projection, counterinsurgency (COIN), counter narcotic (CN), counterterrorism (CT), irregular warfare (IW), foreign internal defense (FID), unconventional warfare (UW), security force assistance (SFA), humanitarian assistance, noncombatant evacuation operations (NEO) and operational preparation of the environment (OPE) as a part of supporting or supported force to enable full spectrum personnel recovery and global access.

Performs tactical mission planning and preparation. Understand special operations tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP). Plans, organizes, directs, and conducts SERE preparation activities.

Designs and develops curriculum, functional structure, and procedures for SERE courses and programs. Determines training schedules according to course control documents, directives, policies, and instructional principles. Conducts classroom, laboratory, and operational training.

Uses lecture, demonstration and performance, guided discussion, case study, and time and circumstance instructional methodology. Conducts training under conditions closely approximating actual SERE episodes.

Develops and implements SERE joint tactics, techniques, and procedures (JTTOP). Assists in developing theater PR infrastructure, CONOPS and recommends changes. Instructs and performs static line, military free fall, and emergency parachuting techniques in support of premeditated jump programs, formal jump training, and SERE Initial and Refresher Training.

Performs parachutist duties in support of approved DoD exercises. SERE Specialists are designated the AF subject matter experts for aircrew parachute egress in an operational environment, at home station or deployed.

Conducts Developmental Testing and Evaluation (D&TE) and Operational Testing and Evaluation (O&TE) on Guardian Angel and SERE/Aircrew equipment. Coordinates SERE activities to support PR related exercises. Performs observer and controller duties for high-risk-of-isolation personnel to ensure safety of participants, appropriate learning outcomes, and documents lessons learned.

Inspects and evaluates SERE training and PR operational support programs. Determines readiness and efficacy of equipment, supplies, and training aids. Ensures standardization and compliance with policies, directives, course control documents, RM procedures, operational guidance, and instructional methodology. Performs and supervise self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) and water operations in support of SERE initial & refresher.

Specialty Qualifications

Knowledge is mandatory of: 

• The Code of Conduct; DoDI O-3002.05 , and U.S. Government policy for IP-global SERE and PR principles and JTTP.
• Procedures for MAJCOM SERE program requirements; procedures for PR program management.
• JPRC, UARCC and PRCC roles and missions cultural and sociopolitical considerations that affect PR.
• All aspects of premeditated and emergency parachuting procedures.
• Providing for personal protection and sustenance.
• Communication and signaling techniques.
• Methods of vectoring recovery assets.
• Escape and evasion TTP (rural and urban.)
• Apprehension avoidance (A2) and escape enhancements (E2).
• CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological/Nuclear, Explosive) survival skills.
• Water survival TTP and dive physiology.
• Psychology of survival.
• Avoidance of hazardous terrain, rough land travel and emergency evacuation procedures for injured personnel.
• Survival medicine.
• Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC).
• Land and water navigation and travel.
• Special operations recovery teams and nonconventional assisted recovery mechanisms.
• Caring for and using post-egress, recovery, and aircrew flight equipment.
• Improvising and manufacturing clothing and equipment needed by an isolated person.
• Lecture, demonstration and performance, guided discussion, time and circumstance, and role-play instructional methods and techniques.
• Impact of international law on IP.
• Conduct after capture concepts for war, governmental detention, and hostage environments including, but not limited to, resistance to exploitation, organization and communication, maintenance of psychological and physical health.
• Awarded the SERE Beret and Arch upon completion of 1T031 training requirement, unless waived.

• S-V70-A: SERE Specialist Training Orientation Course (SST-OC).
  
• S-V89-A: SERE Specialist Training Indoctrination Course (SST-IC).
  
• S-V97-A; Advanced SERE Training.
  
• S-V98-A; Long-Term Survival and Evasion Training.
  
• S-V85-A; Emergency Parachute and Water Survival Training.
  
• S-V84-A; Underwater Egress.
  
• S-V81-A; SERE Specialist Training Apprentice Course (SST-AC).
  

1. L9ABA1T031 0A7A; US Army Basic Airborne Course.
   

• Air Force SERE Combatives.
  
• SERE 100.2 CBT (or equivalent)
  

• 5 level tasks IAW 1T0X1 CFETP
  
• S-V81-C; SERE Specialist Journeyman Arctic Survival Training.
  
• PR-102; Fundamentals of Personal Recovery (or CFM approved equivalent).
  
• PR-296/297; Reintegration team Responsibilities/ PR Debriefing (or CFM approved equivalent).
  
• PR 292, Personnel Recovery Execution (or CFM approved equivalent).
  
• 1T071. Completion of the following courses:
  
• S-V81-F; Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) Craftsman Course.
  
• 7 level tasks IAW 1T0X1 CFETP.
  

• 1T051. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1T031.
  
• Experience applying global SERE principles, procedures, techniques, and equipment.
  
• Emergency parachuting procedures.
  
• Survival medicine.
  
• Rough land travel and evacuation procedures.
  
• Land and water navigation and travel.
  
• Use of post-egress survival and aircrew flight equipment.
  
• PR JTTP.
  
• Escape and evasion techniques.
  
• Combat communication, signaling, and recovery procedures.
  
• PR operations.
  
• Survival in CBRNE contamination conditions.
  
• Conduct after capture during wartime, peacetime governmental detention, and hostage detention guidance including survival adaptations, communication, organization, resistance to exploitation, and escape TTPs.
  
• 1T071. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1T051. Also, experience in performing or supervising SERE operations and training activities.
  
• 1T091. Qualification in and possession of AFSC 1T071. Also, experience in managing and directing SERE operations and training programs.
  

• Completion of high school, or equivalent, with eleventh grade reading level required.
  
• Must score a 55 or higher on the SERE 2-Factor Selection Model.
  
• Successful passing score of the SERE Initial Fitness Test (IFT).
  
• Prior to attendance of SERE Specialist Training Orientation Course (S-V70-A), applicants must meet medical standards for Special Warfare Airmen as outlined in DAFMAN 48-123, Medical Examinations and Standards, and the accompanying Medical Standards Directory (MSD), Special Warfare Airmen (SWA) column.
  
• Applicants must also meet medical standards for entry into required training that is provided by sister service schools (Army Airborne) as applicable for this AFSC.
  
• Absence of any speech impediment and ability to read aloud and speak English clearly and distinctly.
  
• Passing SERE color vision requirement, as defined the Air Force Medical Standards Directory; at minimum must identify vivid red and vivid green as projected by the ophthalmological projector or stereoscope vison testing.
  

• Qualification in 5 level/ Level IAW SERE CFETP.
  
• Specialty requires routine access to Tier 3 (T3) information, systems, or similar classified environment.
  
• For retention of AFSCs 1T0XX, completion of a current T3, according to DoDM 5200.02, AFMAN 16-1405, Personnel Security Program Management, is mandatory.
  

• For retention of this AFSC, must maintain local network access IAW AFI 17-130, Cybersecurity Program Management and AFMAN 17-1301, Computer Security.

Civilian Career Options

High Salary: $115,640

Low Salary: $29,460

• Business Continuity Planner: $77,420
• Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels: $77,130
• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School : 62,270
• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary: $55,620
• Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School: $62,460
• Couriers and Messengers: $30,980
• Emergency Management Directors: $76,250
• Emergency Medical Technician: $36,650
• Forest and Conservation Technicians: $38,940
• General and Operations Managers: $103,650
• Instructional Coordinators: $66,970
• Motorboat Operators: $55,910
• Paramedics: $36,650
• Riggers: $50,850
• Sailors and Marine Oilers: $44,920
• Surveying and Mapping Technician: $46,200
• Training and Development Managers: $115,640
• Training and Development Specialists $62,700
• Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers: $96,390
• Travel Guides: $29,460

***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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