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	Air Force Specialty Code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) is an alphanumeric code used by the United States Air Force to identify an Air Force Specialty (AFS).
		The AFSC is similar to the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) used by the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps.
		A Primary AFSC (PAFSC) is the designation for the specialty in which the individual possesses the highest skill level and is, therefore, the AFS that he or she is best qualified to perform.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Air_Force_Specialty_Code (640 words)

	Military Occupational Specialty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) is a job classification in use in the United States Army and Marine Corps.
		In the U.S. Air Force, a system of Air Force Specialty Codes (AFSC) is used.
		In 2004, all Army warrant officers began wearing the insignia of their specialty's proponent branch rather than the 83-year old "Eagle Rising" distinctive warrant officer insignia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_Occupational_Specialty (1587 words)

	Changing Air Force Means Basic Changes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Air Force officials figure up to 85 percent of all airmen will deploy to a world hot spot at least once during their careers.
		With the end of the Cold War, the Air Force increasingly found itself deploying to areas where the threat was not the intercontinental missiles of a distant Soviet Union, but a satchel of explosives in the vehicle of a terrorist parked just outside the main gate of the base.
		Air Force trainees assemble to listen to a critique from their military training instructors at the Scorpion's Nest.
	www.defenselink.mil /specials/basic_training1/airforce.html (1524 words)

	Air Force Times - News - More News.
		The Air Force has just implemented the enlisted Critical Skills Retention Bonus program for the select airmen in those two critical jobs and made them retroactive to Jan. 1.
		The Air Force introduced the CSRB for selected officer skills in January 2003, he said, but now, “with introduction for enlisted members, the Air Force wants to retain its most qualified airmen.”
		The combat controller and pararescue career fields are chronic critical specialties, he said, and offering those airmen a retention bonus at the 19 year point in service provides an incentive for them to remain beyond 20 years of service.
	www.airforcetimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-745210.php (307 words)

	TERMS & ACRONYMS … (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Air Force specialty codes are alphanumeric identifiers of occupational specialties of airmen and their skill levels: unskilled (1 level), apprentice (3 level), journeyman (5 level), craftsman (7 level) or superintendent (9 level).
		Air Force specialty is a group of related Air Force occupations that require common qualifications and are identified by title and code, the Air Force specialty code.
		Occupational specialty codes are alphanumeric identifiers of Air Force enlisted occupational specialties.
	www.au.af.mil /au/ccaf/catalog/2005cat/terms.htm (799 words)

	Air Force Magazine
		In its January announcement on the new cuts, the Air Force said that enlisted recruiting quotas would be cut from 37,000 this year to 35,600 in Fiscal 2005 and 34,500 in Fiscal 2006.
		Air Force leaders acknowledge that the force is stressed, but they say it is stressed unevenly.
		Air Force officials point to the service’s current recruiting and retention record to bolster their position that the ongoing demands of overseas deployments and the tempo of operations has not led to a wholesale flight from active duty.
	www.afa.org /magazine/july2004/0704recruit.asp (2831 words)

	U.S. Air Force AIM Points: Air Force focused on three priorities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Michael Moseley said the Air Force is concerned primarily with fighting and winning the long war against global terrorism and militant extremism, taking care of our Airmen and their families and the overall recapitalization and modernization of aging, obsolete aircraft and spacecraft.
		As the Air Force continues to be engaged in the war on terrorism, the service is changing the way it develops and trains Airmen, so they are better-prepared to fight the war, and so the service delivers a better prepared force to combatant commanders.
		General Moseley expects the Air Force to continue to be engaged around the world in an array of operations that demand Airmen and their equipment be more adaptive, more responsive and more expeditionary than ever.
	aimpoints.hq.af.mil /display.cfm?id=14410 (1130 words)

	Air Force Reserve - News: News Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Air Force announced March 13 that it would implement Stop-Loss, a Defense Department program designed to retain members of the armed forces beyond their established dates of separation or retirement.
		Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John P. Jumper said service officials have always said that they will use Stop-Loss only as long as necessary to accomplish the mission.
		Deployed active-duty, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Command airmen whose AFSCs are released from Stop-Loss will not be allowed to retire or separate until their deployment is completed, Forest said.
	www.afreserve.com /news_archive.asp?id=373 (514 words)

	Hilltop Times - Air Force eases stop loss
		The Air Force announced Stop Loss, a Defense Department program designed to retain members of the armed forces beyond their established dates of separation or retirement, for 99 AFSCs and deployed airmen on March 13.
		Teresa Forest, chief of Air Force retirements and separation policy at the Pentagon, said this announcement is the result of an in-depth review.
		Air Reserve Component airmen who are mobilized, but not deployed, will be demobilized according to ARC policy.
	www.hilltoptimes.com /story.asp?edition=101&storyid=2755 (508 words)

	Space and Missile Systems Center IMA Link (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		One of the major elements in an Air Force member’s career is the combination of civilian and military education.
		Air Command and Staff College, the Air Force’s intermediate professional military education school, prepares field grade officers and U.S. civilians to apply air and space power during peace and war, and challenges faculty and students to think critically and creatively.
		Air War College is the senior school in the Air Force professional military education system.
	www.losangeles.af.mil /SMC/CC/CCV/pme.html (1589 words)

	Air Force Programs and Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Air Command and Staff College.Air Command and Staff College (ACSC), the Air Force's intermediate professional military education school, prepares field grade officers and U.S. civilians to apply air and space power during peace and war, and challenges faculty and students to think critically and creatively.
		Air War College (AWC) is the senior school in the Air Force professional military education system.
		Air Force Guidance Counselors are trained professionals who assist individuals in clarifying goals and pursuing educational opportunities.
	www.hurlburt.af.mil /16sow/16msg/16mss/ed/afed.shtml (1327 words)

	Technical Education for Air Force Space Professionals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Air Force Blue Ribbon Panel’s assessment of national and Air Force space policies in 1988 yielded the recommendation to “operationalize” space—that is, focus space activities on operations rather than research and development.
		Because AETC is primarily responsible for the professional education of Air Force personnel, one would expect the command to involve itself intimately with AFSPC’s effort to meet the Space Commission’s taskings with respect to investing in training and education.
		The Air Force’s primary institution for “provid[ing] graduate and professional continuing education, research and consulting programs to keep the Air Force and DoD on the leading edge of technology and management,” AFIT also manages officers enrolled in civilian universities, research centers, hospitals, and industrial organizations through its civilian-institution programs.
	www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil /airchronicles/apj/apj05/win05/staats.html (4346 words)

	AFROTC Detachment 675 - University of Oklahoma
		We chatted briefly about what we both did in the Air Force, and then he proceeded to proudly introduce me to his employees as if he were showing off a long lost friend.
		This practical lesson reminded me that no matter who we were when we entered the Air Force, we now are held to, and should strive to hold ourselves to, a higher standard than the average population.
		Someday, after my Air Force career is over, I want to be like that store manager and know I will always be able to associate an Air Force member with integrity, excellence and service.
	www.ou.edu /rotc/air-force/core.htm (670 words)

	2 new programs guide enlisted force shaping
		The LADSC Waiver Program allows retirement-eligible master and technical sergeants in overage Air Force specialty codes to have all or portions of an extension waived and voluntarily retire by Sept. 1.
		While the Air Force needs to implement these additional enlisted force shaping programs to help meet end strength numbers, Chief McKinley stressed the goal remains to have a balanced force and to ensure the right people are in the right job at the right time.
		Force shaping initiatives affecting officers were announced earlier this year, and Air Force officials continue to monitor the success of those programs.
	www.capflyer.com /stories/102606/news_20061026004.shtml (707 words)

	Air Force Times - News - More News.
		The Air Force has released new guidelines that put more responsibility on airmen for personnel readiness and accountability in case of a disaster or emergency.
		Seventeen Air Force Specialty Codes in the 2004 year group and four AFSCs in the 2003 year group could face the board, depending on whether the AFSC meets its quota through the use of voluntary separations.
		Air Force leaders announced in October their plans to separate more than 1,700 lieutenants commissioned in 2002 and 2003, part of an effort to reduce the number of officers who exceed authorized manning levels.
	www.airforcetimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-fromnewspaper.php (1839 words)

	Military News - Veteran News: Doors Open for Active Duty to Join Air Force Reserve
		As the active force tries to reduce manning by about 16,600, the Air Force Reserve is seeking to hire many of those experienced airmen and give them a more flexible way to have a career in the military.
		Though people in all specialty codes are eligible to apply for the Palace Chase transfers to the Air Force Reserve, airmen must have graduated from their initial training, qualified as 3-levels and not be scheduled to be retrained.
		Air Force ROTC cadets may apply to be commissioned directly into Air Force Reserve jobs for six-year commitments, instead of the typical four-year tour of active duty.
	www.militaryconnections.com /news_story.cfm?textnewsid=820 (1208 words)

	Hilltop Times - AFPC announces release of most AFSCs from stop loss
		WASHINGTON - Air Force personnel officials announced June 21 the release of most Air Force Specialty Codes from Stop-Loss, a Defense Department program designed to retain members of the armed forces beyond established dates of separation or retirement.
		Colonel Middleton said Air Force members with an approved date of separation or retirement in those career fields approved for release is free to separate or retire almost immediately.
		"The determining factor for a AFSC's release was based upon the Air Force's ability to maintain sufficient forces to meet ongoing mission requirements," she said.
	www.hilltoptimes.com /story.asp?storyid=1501 (485 words)

	Youngstown Air Reserve Station - Airstream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Contents of The Airstream are not necessarily the official views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, the Department of Defense, or the Department of the Air Force.
		Tony Przybyslawski, Air Force Personnel Center commander, was recently selected by the Air Force Academy Preparatory School Class of 2007 as their exemplar.
		A ceremony at the Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, flagpole was held Dec. 7 to honor the 189 who died and 303 who were wounded during a surprise attack by Japanese fighter aircraft 65 years ago.
	www.youngstown.afrc.af.mil /library/airstream/index.asp (371 words)

	Aerospace World
		The Air Force is on track to meet its Congressionally mandated end strength by the end of the year, the service’s top uniformed personnel official recently told lawmakers.
		The Air Force has determined that a “deficiency” in the F/A-22’s flight-control system (FLCS) resulted in last September’s mishap in which a Raptor exceeded its G limits, causing $3.6 million in damage to the aircraft.
		The Air Force is in the midst of a major reorganization of command responsibilities that should, by autumn, carve a series of new warfighting headquarters out of USAF’s numbered air forces.
	www.afa.org /magazine/June2005/0605world.asp (5864 words)

	Testimony of the Honorable Ruby B. DeMesme, Asst. Secretary of the Air Forces for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, ...
		The Air Force shares the interest of the Department of Labor and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs that we need to do what we can to help veterans achieve the necessary credentialing to enhance second career opportunities.
		While the Air Force is committed to providing significant transition assistance to our members and their families as they leave the Air Force, we must first ensure that all of our members have the training and the skills necessary to perform their military missions.
		Air Force training ranges from a four-week course that prepares enlisted members for administrative duties, to one year or longer courses in highly technical fields, including pilots, linguists, and computer systems personnel.
	www.house.gov /va/hearings/schedule106/sept99/9-9-99/usaf.htm (1551 words)

	DefenseLINK News: AIR FORCE BEGINS "STOP LOSS" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Acting Secretary of the Air Force F. Whitten Peters and Chief of Staff Gen. Michael E. Ryan announced their decision today to implement Stop Loss, suspending normal separations and retirements for people in critical career fields effective June 15.
		The driving force behind the decision is the ongoing air campaign in the Balkans.
		Twenty-three percent of Air Force specialty codes have been identified as the critical skills needed to perform the mission.
	www.defenselink.mil /releases/1999/b05261999_bt267-99.html (675 words)

	Air Force Crew Keeps Aging B-52s Airborne - DefendAmerica News Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Its presence is welcomed by U.S. and coalition forces fighting in support if Operation Enduring Freedom, and unwelcomed by the terrorists who operate from there.
		U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jeremy Manley, 40th Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron, welds a plate for a new bushing on a tow bar used on B-52s.
		Pilots know how pivotal the maintainers are to their mission of providing close air support for U.S. and coalition forces.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/may2006/a050306dg1.html (908 words)

	Air Force Career Job Reservation Quotas
		The Air Force announced the fiscal 2006 quotas for the career job reservation program recently, adding three Air Force Specialty Codes to the constrained list, while releasing 13 others.
		Those who applied for retraining but were not selected, and do not receive a CJR in their current AFSC at the end of their CJR window, may re-apply for retraining or a special duty no later than 30 days after the end of their CJR window.
		Quotas for constrained AFSCs will be posted monthly and updated as required on the Air Force Personnel Center's reenlistment Website.
	www.military.com /MilitaryReport/0,12914,79812,00.html (203 words)

	NCORP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As more force shaping programs become available to both officer and enlisted corps, noncommissioned officers are reminded that the start of the 2006 fiscal year Noncommissioned Officer retraining period is set to begin shortly.
		People in these AFSCs are vulnerable to be involuntarily retrained if the Air Force has to implement Phase Two,” she said.
		Applications are sent to their Air Force major command for review before being forwarded to AFPC to meet boards which approves or disapproves requests,” she said.
	www.hanscom.af.mil /hansconian/Articles/2005Arts/07292005-02.htm (790 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Air Force Master Sgt. Robert Jackson inspects a 30 mm round for an A-10 Thunderbolt II in the munitions storage area for Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan.
		Air Force officials had notified an airman deployed to a remote forward operating base that his wife was gravely ill. The Air Force placed him on emergency leave, then tried to figure a way to get him from the Afghan frontier to the United States.
		Malachowski, 31, was named to the U.S. Air Force’s demonstration squadron last year and flew in her first performance in March.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/keyword?k=airmen (5593 words)

	Apprenticeship Home Page
		We are proud to be a part of the Air Force Community and we are proud that we can support the Air Force Community in providing an important credential which demonstrates to the civilian and military employer a high degree of competency in a trade.
		If you feel that one of the trades is related to your Air Force Speciality Code, please contact our Fort Bragg office with a print-out of the program in which you are interested so that we can discuss it and so that you can possibly enroll.
		Therefore if you permanently change to another Air Force Specialty Code which is Apprenticeable, you can ask to be dropped from your current program and enter another.
	www.angelfire.com /nc/larrycreel/popehome.html (2226 words)

	DefendAmerica News - Article
		Harris is deployed to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, from the 939th Air Refueling Wing in Portland Oregon.
		Reservists needed to switch their Air Force specialty codes, then be trained and certified on their new tasks.
		Rel is deployed to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, from the 939th Air Refueling Wing in Portland, Oregon.
	www.defendamerica.mil /articles/dec2003/a121903a.html (663 words)

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