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Combat Control (Officer)

AFMAN 36-2105 Attachment 5 31 October 1999

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Staff AFSC 13D4
Qualified AFSC 13D3
Entry AFSC 13D1

COMBAT CONTROL
(Changed 31 Oct 96)

1. Specialty Summary. Provides United States Air Force and joint warfighters with austere airfield management capability. Manages day-to-day operations of special tactics teams (STT) to survey, establish, and control air-to-ground interface in an objective area. Deploys as a STT member or to provide combat control expertise. Advises on combat control and STT operations. Related DoD Occupational Group: 2E.

2. Duties and Responsibilities:

2.1. Ensures STTs are organized, trained, and equipped to perform air traffic control (ATC) and terminal guidance functions. Supports joint forces engaged in special or conventional air operations. 2.2. Plans missions and manages STTs to support joint special operations for air, ground, and maritime missions. Selects, surveys, and establishes assault zones. Provides assault zone terminal guidance and ATC. Conducts direct action, reconnaissance and personnel recovery missions. Plans for emergency trauma care, movement, and medical evacuation of personnel. Coordinates, plans, and conducts air, ground, and naval fire support operations.

2.3. Plans and coordinates conventional airlift support. Provides ATC services to support airlift and transitory flight operations on assault zones within airhead areas. Establishes command and control communications, and conducts airfield operations and reconnaissance and survey assessments of potential objective airfields or assault zones. Provides limited weather observations, gathers and reports intelligence information, removes obstacles or unexploded ordnance with demolitions, and operational interface with ground forces. Initiates and issues clearances and instructions for air traffic separation. Ensures safe, orderly, and expeditious air traffic flow in and around assault zones.

3. Specialty Qualifications:

3.1. Knowledge. Knowledge is mandatory of: ATC principles and procedures; flight characteristics of aircraft; International Civil Aviation Organization and Federal Aviation Administration regulations; maps and charts; communications and navigational aid systems; meteorology; small unit tactics; demolition; tactical communications procedures; and employment methods such as fast rope, rappelling, overland movement, and amphibious operations including scuba infiltration and parachuting.

3.2. Education. For entry into this specialty, undergraduate academic specialization in a technical discipline with courses in administration and management is desirable.

3.3. Training. For award of AFSC 13D3, the following training courses are mandatory:

3.3.1. Combat Control Indoctrination.
3.3.2. Scuba Diving.
3.3.3. Airborne - Parachutist.
3.3.4. Military Free Fall - Parachutist.
3.3.5. Combat Survival Training.
3.3.6. Water Survival Training - Parachutist.
3.3.7. Underwater Egress.
3.3.8. ATC Officer.
3.3.9. Combat Control School.

3.4. Experience. For award of AFSC 13D3, a minimum of 12 months of experience in combat control assignments, excluding training identified in paragraph 3.3., and certification as a combat controller are mandatory.

3.5. Other. The following are mandatory as indicated:

3.5.1. For entry into this specialty, physical qualification for ATC, marine diving, and parachutist duty according to AFI 48-123, Medical Examination and Standards.
3.5.2. For award and retention of the 13D3:

3.5.2.1. Qualification as a parachutist and scuba diver.
3.5.2.2. Maintain combat ready status as prescribed by AFI 13-219, Special Tactics Operator Standards and EvaluationProgram.
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