Career Fields/Jobs (Read 505 times)

MOW, I was in MARS 422X1 (Mechanical Accessories Repair Shop) which later changed name to Environmental Systems.  This included heating/cooling, pressurization, liquid oxygen and fire extinguishing systems.  This may have since been put into Life Support?  Before that I was in 535X1 Corrosion Control which had been the Paint Shop which now may be Sheet Metal subcategory or function.

In 65-69 USAF peaked in manpower and started to decline.  I think they were into specializing career field AFSCs which were later recombined when manpower started to decline. 

BTW, I don't see Maintenance Control on the list.  My be under Maintenance Officer subcategory? Don't know if you just want to stick with F-106 squadron related jobs or have a Other (fill in the blank) form that could include other stuff like Admin, Police, Medical, Food Services, etc.?

Pat P.

I can't vouch for the accuracy of this document/web page, but it sure lists more AFSCs than I've ever seen in my life.  Supposed to be from the 60s/70s.

www.preservingourhistory.com/afsc.html

There are several listings with the same "job", but different numbers, for example: Pilot.  Obviously this is due to different aircraft, but I wish they broke it down.  Hey, ya can't have it all!

Might help figure out some of those forgotten jobs.

Edit:  I found this list here...

genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/1386/what-are-the-pre-1993-us-air-force-specialty-codes

Notice the last comment.  A fella wrote the Air Force, and the response he got.  "Exceeded the Pentagon servers..."

How about spliting the documents up into smaller parts?  I know, I know.  Someone would have to do the work, and that costs money, and the history folks are very low on the budget priority, blah, blah, blah.

The AFSC breakout is pretty simple.  But think about all of the training material for all of the AFSC's. 

Avionics/Electronics was the 3xxxx AFSC.  They had shredouts for Avionics then sub-devided into Defensive (Fighters) and Offensive Bombers.  In some cases Alpha symbols were used to denote different specialities on same A/C. MA-1 originally was simply 322X1A.  Then in mid 60's they started sub-dividing into specialities.  MA-1 Flightline,Mock-up, Automatic Flight Controls,/Computer M/U, RADAR M/U, Comm, NAV, etc.
Then they broke it out into skill levels for the 3/5/7 levels.  A 9-level was usually like 32290 for all Fighter Avionics.

Flight Simulation was a huge field with a 3/5/7 level breakout for every Training Device/Simulator/Mission Simulation device. I had 7 active AFSC's when I transferred to WPAFB.  Although I still had my Avionics AFSC and Simulator AFSC I picked up a Special Duty Identifier of 99501-Enlisted Program Manager.  And within that I had a 2641 Acquisition Program Engineer shredout.

Crew Chiefs were 43xxx career field \.

Of course that was back in 1960-1980 time frame.  Then they started consolidation and adding Alpha characters as part of AFSC.

And the Officer Career fields were 4 digits long and could have an ALPHA shred-out.

it goes back before the 60s for what use to be called APG that had Alpha shredouts.. I have had 431X1 H,J,C,W and back to C again.. H, J, and C all indicated basically the same thing, jet engine fighter a/c... The W was for cargo a/c 2 engine recip aircrew status.... I also carried 53430, 53450, 53470 and 53490, known by a couple of names, airframe sheet metal and structural repair

Exactly why I wanted to keep it at a higher level, a semi-macro level.

Scheduler, Fuel Systems