The Aircrew Operations Career Field encompasses the functions of program formulating, policy planning, inspecting, training and directing, and performing combat and operations pertinent to enlisted primary aircrew activities. 

Included are supervising and performing primary aircrew duties pertinent to in-flight refueling systems; performing aircraft flight engineer activities; loading, restraining, and off-loading cargo on military aircraft; airdropping cargo and personnel; performing airborne communications systems operations activities; and performing aircrew duties associated with operating airborne command and control systems equipment. 

These duties include resolving airborne systems equipment technical problems that involve computer systems, radar and radio systems, and surveillance systems operations activities.

The Command and Control Systems Operations Career Field encompasses the functions involved in aerospace surveillance and aerospace vehicle detection, including missile warning systems, controlling, and plotting.

This field includes control tower and airways operations; ground-controlled approach procedures; operation of all types of ground radar and related communications equipment, except weather equipment; either manual or semiautomatic plotting functions, or both, performed in aircraft filter centers and intercept control centers; establishing and providing air traffic control services in forward operating areas; operation of space surveillance and detecting and tracking equipment; operation of airborne search and height finding type of radar equipment; airfield management functions of dispatching, maintaining flight plan processing area of flight information data, and coordinating base operations and air operations functions with air traffic control agencies; operations systems management functions of maintaining custodial control and accountability of flight records, preparing and processing aeronautical orders and military pay orders, and compiling, recording, and auditing input data for resource management data systems; performance of command and control functions; operation of electronic warfare countermeasures equipment; functions of operating radio transceivers and associated equipment; performing preventive maintenance on radio communications and related equipment; submitting close air support, tactical air reconnaissance, and airlift mission requests; assisting forward air controllers in tactical air mission planning and operation; and providing terminal strike control as interim substitutes for forward air controllers in emergency conditions.

The Intelligence Career Field encompasses functions involved in collecting, producing, and distributing data that have strategic, tactical, or technical value from an intelligence viewpoint.  This field includes functions necessary to maintain information security and language translation and interpretation. 

Excluded from this career field are functions of collecting, collating, interpreting, and distributing general information of primary concern to other career fields.  These functions are contained in the specific career field concerned.

The Aircrew Flight Equipment (AFE) field encompasses functions that enhance aircrew performance through the proper equipment integration of the human and the aircraft.

Aircrew Flight Equipment personnel issue, fit, repair, and maintain human-side flight equipment such as parachutes, helmets, oxygen equipment, anti-gravity garments, anti-exposure suits, aircrew ocular devices, survival kits, life preservers, rafts, electronic communications, helmet mounted weapons integration devices, and aircrew Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) equipment.

Personnel also instruct aircrew on the proper use and care of aircrew flight equipment under normal, contingency, and CBRN operations. Additionally, this career field maintains, and sets up aircrew contamination control areas (ACCA), and processes aircrew through the ACCA.

The Safety Career Field encompasses functions relating to safety education and engineering; contractor and construction safety; mishap investigation, and analysis and trends computations; operations and facilities evaluation, inspection, and survey; risk assessment; consultation with commanders, functional managers, supervisors, and employees; and safety education and awareness promotion at all levels.

The Aircrew Protection Career Field encompasses the functions involved in instructing aircrew and other designated personnel on the principles, procedures, and techniques of global survival; and locating and penetrating incident areas to provide emergency medical treatment, survival, and evacuation of survivors.

Included is the impact of survival and recovery related life support equipment; recovery, evasion, captivity, resistance to exploitation, and escape; instructing aircrew on environmental physiology and use and care of aircrew life support equipment; and issuing, fitting, inspecting, and minor repairing of aircrew life support equipment.

The Unmanned Aerospace System (UAS) Sensor Operator (SO) Career Field encompasses functions involved in program formulating, policy planning, inspecting, training and directing, and performing combat and operations related to crew position activities, sensor suite operations and unit functionality.

Employs manual and computer-assisted active and passive airborne-based sensor systems to acquire, track and monitor airborne, maritime and ground objects. Qualified operator performs operational procedures in accordance with all Special Instructions and the unified combatant Air Tasking Order.

As a crewmember, provides assistance to aircraft pilot with all aspects of aircraft employment. Provides continuous monitoring of aircraft flight status, weapons during offensive air operations, and terminal weapons guidance.

Individuals in the Weather career field collect, analyze, predict, tailor, and integrate weather and space environmental information, including forecasts of conditions, to provide decision-quality information on environmental impacts to Air Force, Army, Joint and Coalition operations.

They operate meteorological equipment and employ computer workstations to interrogate current and forecast atmospheric and space weather conditions based on observations, terrestrial and space sensing instruments, weather radars, data and imagery from geostationary and polar orbiting satellites, and forecast data provided by military, national, and international weather centers.

Air Force weather personnel are attached or assigned to Air Force, Army, Joint, or coalition conventional and special operations at garrison and expeditionary locations worldwide. Qualified volunteers may perform airborne and special operations duty in this career field. Weather is a Battlefield Airman (BA) career field according to AFPD 10-35, Battlefield Airmen.

The Manned Aerospace Maintenance Career Field includes:  Installing, maintaining, calibrating, and repairing avionics photographic and sensor equipment, integrated avionics equipment, and selected conventional avionics equipment; avionics guidance and control systems; communication and navigation systems; airborne communications, early warning radar, and electronic warfare equipment; and avionics support equipment.

Installing, removing, maintaining, and repairing aircrew egress, fuel, and pneudraulic systems including in-flight refueling systems; and maintaining aerospace ground equipment used in direct support of aircraft weapon systems.

The Communications-Electronics Systems Career Field encompasses the functions of installing, modifying, maintaining, repairing, and overhauling ground television equipment; ground weather equipment; air traffic control, aircraft control and warning, missile warning, and automatic tracking radar equipment; simulator and training systems; ground radio equipment, including carrier repeater, microwave, tropospheric scatter, flight facilities, and light and heavy, fixed and mobile radio equipment and space communications systems equipment; high-speed general and special purpose data processing equipment; automatic communications and cryptographic machine systems; teletypewriter and teleautograph equipment; electromechanical cryptographic equipment; space systems command and control; and associated electronic test equipment.

Included in this field are the functions of systems control, automatic tracking equipment operation, display systems operation, and associated communications-electronic equipment for which an operator position is not provided.

The Fuels Career Field encompasses operating, maintaining and managing petroleum fuel systems and activities including the entire spectrum of requisitioning, accounting, receiving, storing, dispensing, and testing of aviation and ground fuels, cryogenics, missile propellants and alternative fuels such as compressed natural gas.

Mobile refueling vehicles or equipment along with installed mechanical fuel systems are used to receive or distribute aviation and ground fuels. All operations encompass environmental protection and energy conservation practices. Computer systems are used throughout the fuels career field.

The Logistics Plans Career Field encompasses managing, administering, and operating logistics plans systems and activities.

Included in this field are formulating, developing, evaluating, and monitoring all aspects of logistics plans systems such as plans, policies, and programs pertaining to executing partial or total Air Force or joint service mission, and using the guidance and procedures for interpreting and implementing current, intermediate, and long range plans, policies, and programs.

The Missile and Space Systems Maintenance Career Field encompasses the skills, functions, and techniques used to acquire, activate, assemble, transport, install, and maintain missiles and subsystems; acquire, activate, and supervise assembly, transportation, maintenance, inspection, modification, and launch processing of spacelift boosters, satellites, and subsystems.

Launch, control, track, and recover unmanned air vehicles (UAV) and related equipment; assemble, operate, fabricate, install, test, and troubleshoot specialized research and development (R&D) systems and subsystems; acquire, activate, inspect, maintain, repair, calibrate, modify, and manage these actions on related missile, spacelift booster, satellite, UAV, and R&D facilities, support systems, test equipment, and subsystems.

The Precision Measurement Equipment Laboratory Career Field provides maintenance, modification, repair, calibration, and certification for test, measurement, and diagnostic equipment. It also implements methods and procedures for managing the US Air Force Metrology and Calibration (AFMETCAL) Program as established and directed by AFI 21-113, Air Force Metrology & Calibration (AFMETCAL) Program.

The AFMETCAL Program is a composite of measurement standards and equipment, users, calibration data, and integrated planning to provide a disciplined US Air Force program to ensure reliability, accuracy, and traceability of systems, subsystems, and equipment.

The Maintenance Management Systems Career Field includes planning and scheduling aircraft, missiles, and associated equipment; operating and maintaining the management information system; and collecting, analyzing, and presenting maintenance data in maintenance organizations. Such organizations include aircraft, missile, avionics, communications-electronics, and munitions maintenance.

The Materiel Management Field encompasses managing, controlling, and operating materiel management systems associated with specified Classes of Supply.

This field includes functions of designing, developing, analyzing, and operating materiel management systems; requirements determination and computation; operating and managing materiel storage warehouses; equipment review and validation; records maintenance; inventory and distribution control; inspection and identification of property; and assisting commanders in maintaining accountability of assigned readiness spares and equipment.

Excluded from this field are managing Defense Reutilization and Marketing Offices, and operation and maintenance of organizational, tool cribs, equipment custodial responsibilities, and other duties not related solely to providing materiel management capability.

The Transportation and Vehicle Management Career Field encompasses transportation functions involving traffic management, air transportation, vehicle management, and vehicle operations.

 Traffic management and air transportation functions take part in moving personnel, materiel, and household goods by military and commercial transportation activities. Included are packaging; handling and loading freight and baggage on military aircraft; scheduling military air transportation of personnel and materiel; briefing and caring for passengers on military aircraft; and arranging for commercial air, rail, motor, and water transportation of personnel, materiel, and household goods.

 Vehicle management functions entail cradle to grave management of assigned vehicle fleets, including inspecting, repairing, and maintaining vehicles and vehicular equipment; vehicle body maintenance, repair, and refinishing; vehicle maintenance and fleet management analysis; and related functions.

 Vehicle operations functions of this career field include pre- and post-operation vehicle servicing and inspections; vehicle operations in support of distinguished visitors, personal security details, and mass transportation movements; planning and coordinating for special events and protocol transportation support; administering installation driver qualification and licensing program; reviewing contingency, mobility, and natural disaster plans to determine support requirements; and dispatching and operating various classes of commercial and tactical vehicles, including yard locomotives.

 Excluded from this career field are maintaining aerospace ground equipment used in direct support of aircraft and missiles, and maintaining fixed power production equipment. Also excluded are functions of scheduling, clearing, and dispatching aircraft.

The Munitions and Weapons Career Field includes assembling, maintaining, storing, delivering, inventory managing, and loading nonnuclear munitions and solid propellants; and handling and aircraft loading nuclear munitions and guided aircraft missiles and rockets.

It includes installing, maintaining, and repairing aircraft munitions release and monitor systems, bomb racks, shackles, aircraft machine guns, and cannons; and assembling mechanical components of guided aircraft missiles and rockets. It also includes inspecting, assembling, maintaining, inventory managing, and modernizing mechanical, electrical, electronic, and high explosive components of nuclear weapons and warheads, air launched missiles, reentry vehicles, associated test equipment, and radiological survey instruments.

Included in this field are functions of testing mechanical, electrical, and electronic components for acceptance; installing, operational checking, and repairing weapons, warheads, air launched missiles, missile turbojet engines, and reentry vehicle components; surveying and plotting radiation hazards; using and maintaining specialized radiac instruments; munitions disposal activities; and technical escort functions associated with chemical munitions.

The Knowledge Operations Career Field encompasses communications and data, information and knowledge management tasks and functions.

Included are planning, coordinating, managing, sharing, and controlling organization’s data assets; conducting information analyses to determine proper flow and life-cycle management of information, regardless of medium; operating information systems to create, collect, process, disseminate, use, store, protect, and dispose of information; electronic and manual publications, and forms development, design, control, storage, and dissemination; management of official records, including manual and automated record management systems and operation of records staging, publishing and managing content through automated publishing tools.

Managing Privacy Act (PA) and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) procedures; operating of Base Information Transfer System and Official Mail Center; serving as consultant/liaison for overall data, information, and knowledge planning and integration; using and managing technologies to capture, organize, and store activities/experiences; and client support administration, including management of computer hardware and software; installation and configuration of software operating systems and office automation applications, and configuration, management and initial diagnostics of information systems.

The Communications-Computer Systems (C-CS) Career Field encompasses both Communications-Computer and Communications-Electronics.

Included are management, administration, operation, security, and restoral of C-CS in the client, server, and network environment, it’s related operating systems software, hardware, and connectivity; related functions of messaging, host computer operations, systems control, and management of C-CS security programs, devices, and materials; functions required for planning and implementing C-CS; operations and supervision of high frequency radio networks and systems; the analysis, development, design, and programming of C-CS software and automated systems; and performance of electromagnetic spectrum management activities.

The Cyberspace Operations specialty (3D0) encompasses: Knowledge Operations Management, Cyber Systems Operations, Cyber Surety and Computer Systems Programming.

Included are activities to: plan, coordinate, share, and control an organization’s data and information assets and manage technologies to capture, organize, and store tacit and explicit knowledge; administering server-based networked systems, distributed applications, network storage, messaging, and application monitoring required to provision, sustain, operate and integrate cyber networked systems and applications; identifying and managing Information Technology (IT) and Telecommunications resources to monitor, evaluate and maintain systems, policy and procedures to protect clients, networks, data/voice systems and databases from unauthorized activity; and analyzing, coding, testing and managing the design, development, maintenance, testing, configuration management, and documentation of application software systems, client-server, and web-enabled software and relational database systems critical to warfighting capabilities.

The Civil Engineering Career Field encompasses:

 Mechanical and electrical activities to install, operate, maintain, and repair base direct support systems and equipment; electrical facilities; electrical power generation and distribution; and heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration systems and equipment, and their controls.

 Structural and pavement activities, including construction and maintenance of structural facilities and pavement areas; maintaining pavements, railroads, and soil bases; performing erosion control; operating heavy equipment; structural and metal fabricating, construction, and maintenance; engineering specialists; and operations functions.

Utilities systems functions such as operation, maintenance, repair, and construction of plumbing, water, and wastewater systems and their components; fuel system maintenance; and pest management.

 Fire protection, including preventing, controlling, and extinguishing all types of fire occurring on the ground, and performing related rescue, first aid, and property preservation; potential of fires involving facilities, operational processes, wildlands, aerospace vehicles, weapons, and hazardous or other materials; operation and operator maintenance of all types of crash fire rescue and support vehicles; tools and equipment; and services in support of base emergency disaster operations.

 Explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) activities, including detecting, identifying, rendering safe, recovering, and destroying United States and foreign explosive, incendiary, and nuclear ordnance; supervising EOD functions and resolving technical problems of EOD and the procedures of neutralizing and disposing of improvised explosive devices; and performing as specialized members of the disaster response force.

 Readiness activities, including personnel training to accomplish the primary mission under the handicaps imposed by enemy attack and by acts of man and nature; training in detecting, measuring, and decontaminating nuclear, biological, and chemical contaminants; providing and using proper protective equipment; and day-to-day operations requiring establishing, training, and equipping a disaster response force to handle all types of peacetime accidents and requests for assistance from the civilian community.

 The Civil Engineering Career Field is a contingency related career field. Personnel serving in this career field may participate in recovery operation as a result of natural and manmade disasters, or be subject to deployment and employment in hostile environments created by terrorism, sabotage, or chemical, biological, or conventional warfare. Individuals should have knowledge of contingency skills such as first aid procedures, field sanitation and hygiene, work party security, repair and construction methods, beddown procedures, personal weapons, chemical warfare defense, and explosive ordnance reconnaissance.

 Excluded from this career field are functions of maintenance and repair of ground support equipment that are included in the Manned Aerospace Maintenance Career Field (2A) and medical care of injured personnel (other than emergency first aid) which is included in the Medical Career Field (4X).

The Historian Career Field encompasses activities to document Air Forces historical activities. Historian personnel are involved in researching, writing, editing, and organizing historical data; maintaining historical files and repositories; conducting interviews; historical studies; documenting important deliberations and decisions; and deploying to meet operational contingency and wartime requirements to document significant events and submit historical reports.

The Airman Services Career Field includes managing, supervising, and administering or operating appropriated and nonappropriated fund food facilities; transient and temporary lodging facilities; fitness and recreation programs and facilities; mortuary affairs administration; operational support; training and supervising search and recovery teams; training, scheduling, and overseeing installation honor guard team; training and advising unit fitness managers in fitness evaluation procedures and conducting fitness improvement training programs; selecting, procuring, and controlling equipment and supplies; providing lodging, feeding, and recreation services in fixed and bare base facilities; providing liaison support to the Defense Commissary Agency and the Army and Air Force Exchange Service.

Perform quality assurance functions when areas of responsibility are performed by contract; operating and administering information management systems used to support functional responsibilities; and providing direction for other essential community services by planning and conducting surveys to determine interests and attitudes of the military population and their dependents.

 Also included are commissary resale; operation of troop support and subsistence activities; and automated systems operation to support authorized personnel. Personnel must have knowledge of and proficiency in the use of specialized equipment and procedures required to provide subsistence and exchange support to deployed forces. Support may be provided in either fixed or tactical facilities.

 The Airman Services Career Field is a contingency-related field. Personnel serving in this career field may participate in recovery operations as a result of natural and manmade disasters. Also, they may be subject to deployment and employment in hostile environments created by terrorism, sabotage, or chemical, biological, or conventional warfare.

Personnel should have knowledge of and proficiency using specialized equipment and procedures required to provide food, shelter, laundry, first aid, field sanitation and hygiene, mortuary service, recreation, and physical fitness to deployed forces.

The Public Affairs Career Field encompasses the total spectrum of the Air Forces human communication activities and functions involved in administering and operating Air Force bands, including the USAF Academy and USAF Bands. The functions are designed to facilitate communication flow between the Air Force and the general public, as well as active duty Air Force members, Reserve components, civilian employees, and dependents.

Public Affairs personnel are involved in writing, editing and publishing; arranging and conducting special events; military community relations; orientation programs; news media relations; and research, interviewing, reporting, administrative, and management tasks.

All print and electronic communication media are used along with interpersonal communication techniques.

The Public Affairs Career Field serves the United States Air Force by providing professional, trained communication practitioners to leaders and managers for planning, executing, and reporting internal and public interest policy, plans, and programs.

The Security Forces (SF) Career Field performs force protection duties. SF duties require the use of force, up to and including the use of deadly force. SF duties ensure combat capability through the functions of installation security, nuclear and conventional weapon systems and resources security, air base defense, law enforcement, information security, military working dog activities, and combat arms training and maintenance.

Security Forces participate in contingency operations. Personnel in this career field will be deployed and employed in sensitive or hostile environments created by terrorism, sabotage, nuclear, chemical, biological, or conventional warfare.

Security Force members perform the military police function within the Air Force.

The Mission Support Career Field includes functions and activities of personnel, military equal opportunity, education and training, and manpower.

 Personnel functions encompass classifying, assigning, promoting, base reenlisting and separating military personnel; MilPDS management; controlling, administering, and interpreting personnel tests used to measure general learning ability, specific aptitudes, job proficiency, interests, and other pertinent human variables; processing officer performance reports and enlisted performance reports; monitoring quality control programs; advising military personnel and their family members on benefit programs; preparing and maintaining qualification records and other personnel records and reports; developing and maintaining manual and mechanized personnel records and reports; occupational surveys; and collecting elementary psychological data for human resources research.

 Military Equal Opportunity (MEO) functions include counseling, educational, and administrative functions to support social actions program.

 Education and training activities include training systems development and management, and education services. Training systems involves developing and managing training programs; supervising training activities; providing advice and guidance on enlisted specialty training (EST); and EST advisory services and duties associated with other training functions.

Education services involve administering off-duty education programs; advisement on education programs; and maintaining educational services facilities including office libraries containing educational materials and bulletin boards.

 Manpower and Organization (MO) functions encompass manpower and organization activities, with core competencies in organization, requirements determination, program allocation and control, and performance management.

These include developing and maintaining various organizational structures, manpower standards; analysis of methods, procedures, manpower authorizations, manpower usage, military-civilian mix, manpower force elements, peacetime and wartime requirements; contingency management; operational planning and execution, contractual services, process improvement, productivity enhancement, benchmarking, reengineering, consulting services, and using various data systems.

The Medical Career Field encompasses functions involved in operating both fixed and tactical medical facilities and subprofessionally caring for and treating authorized personnel. This career field includes aeromedical activities, aerospace physiology, specialized medical services including ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, orthopedics, urology, allergy and immunology, optometry, nuclear medicine and cardiopulmonary techniques, electroencephalographic studies, physical therapy, occupational therapy, orthotics, operating room, mental health services, radiology, medical laboratory, histopathology, cytotechnology, pharmacy, diet therapy, medical administration, medical materiel, bioenvironmental engineering, and environmental medicine, including laboratory animal techniques and medical equipment.

 Excluded from this career field are dental and rescue and survival functions. These functions are included in the Dental Career Field and Protection Career Field.

 All personnel of the USAF Medical Service must have knowledge of and be proficient in military sanitation and first aid procedures, to include shock management; effective respiration maintenance (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation with or without adjunct); hemorrhage control; emergency wound treatment; management of fractures, burns, and injuries from chemical agents; hand and litter carrier methods; and loading and unloading vehicles used for patient transportation.

 All personnel of the USAF Medical Service must have knowledge of and be proficient in the operation and first echelon maintenance of all equipment used by the respective Air Force specialty, and must be familiar with improvisation and conversion methods of fixed types of medical equipment for tactical use.

The Dental Career Field provides paraprofessional support in the delivery of dental health care to authorized beneficiaries both in-garrison and in a deployed environment. This includes assisting in general dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery, prosthodontics, endodontics, periodontics, orthodontics, and pediatric dentistry.

In addition, services are provided in dental radiology, preventative dentistry, dental laboratory, and office administration/practice management.

 Excluded from this career field are functions of operating medical facilities and paraprofessional medical care of authorized personnel. These functions are included in the Medical Career Field (4X).

The Paralegal Career Field encompasses functions relating to military justice, including court reporting, administrative boards reporting, accident and collateral investigations, depositions, and other legal proceedings; conducting legal services for commanders and Air Force members as authorized by Congress relating to civil law; preparing and maintaining legal documents under the direct supervision of Air Force attorneys in compliance with American Bar Association Standards; investigating claims filed for and against the Air Force; and investigation and trial assistance provided to defense attorneys in support of USAF trial judiciary.

The Chaplain Assistant Career Field builds a culture of spiritual care for Air Force members, their families and other authorized personnel, while pursuing the Chaplain Corps vision of Glorifying God, Serving Airmen, and Pursuing Excellence. Chaplain assistants facilitate religious observances, pastoral care, and provide advice to leadership on spiritual, ethical, moral and morale issues.

Chaplain assistants meet the diverse needs of the multi-faith military community by managing religious programs, administrative, financial, and facility support. They recruit, train, and organize volunteers for specific religious ministries.

Chaplain assistants are uniquely trained in the principles of religious diversity, religious accommodation, major faith group requisites, privileged communications and religious program management. Chaplain Assistants are trained in crisis intervention counseling to include suicide-intervention skills and traumatic stress response.

They also are trained in religious support to hospitals and mortuaries. Chaplain assistants are considered visible reminders of the Holy and conduct themselves in a manner that brings credit, pride and honorable distinction to the Chaplain Corps.

The Contracting Career Field encompasses the purchasing of equipment, supplies, services, and construction through negotiation or formal advertising methods or both.This field involves soliciting bids; preparing, processing, awarding, and administering contractual documents; maintaining records of obligations, bid deposits, and miscellaneous purchasing transactions; and providing for contract repair services.

Contracting tasks also include recognizing, coding, interpreting, and using automated products; providing input and making analysis of output generated by the base contracting automation system; and inspecting and evaluating contracting activities.

The Financial Career Field involves:

Receiving, disbursing, and accounting for public funds; appropriation and expense, working capital, and real property accounting, including reporting and analyzing costs of programs and operations; formulating, executing, and analyzing financial programs; and examining and verifying all Air Force financial and management operations.

Collecting, processing, recording, controlling, analyzing, and interpreting special and recurring reports, statistical data, and other information pertaining to personnel, training, supply, aircraft, costs, operations, equipment, facilities, maintenance, organization, programs, progress, and related subjects under conditions ranging from normal operations to actual conflict.

It also covers utilizing financial management decision support techniques, conducting comparative analysis and preparing analytical summaries for use in managing command resources, including personnel, materiel, time, and money.

Excluded from this career field are the functions involved in maintaining supply records and accounting for requesting, receiving, and issuing Air Force equipment and supplies.

The Special Investigations Career Field encompasses functions involved in performing the criminal, economic crime, environmental crime, computer crime, counterintelligence, force protection, and personnel suitability investigative mission as well as the conduct of the technical services and special inquiries mission within the Air Force.

It includes the conduct of investigations of major criminal violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and other Federal, state, local and international laws. These include serious crimes against persons, economic crime and fraud (with emphasis on the procurement and disposal of government property), computer crime (intrusions and hacking), environmental crime, espionage, sabotage, terrorism, and subversion.

Additionally AFOSI Special Agents perform Protective Service Operations, conduct (for the Defense Security Service) personnel security (suitability) investigations, conduct Psychophysiological Detection of Deception (polygraph) examinations, and may be called upon to investigate other matters deemed “special inquiries.”

 Excluded from this career field are functions of air intelligence to prevent strategic, tactical, or technological surprise and to support planning and conducting air operations. These functions are included in the Intelligence Career Field. The following is a complete listing of AFSCs for the Special Investigations Career Field.

Special Duty Identifiers (SDI) identify authorizations for enlisted airmen assigned to and performing an actual group of tasks on a semi-permanent or permanent duty basis. These duties are unrelated to any specific career field at this time and do not provide a normal career progression pattern. No significance as to the interrelationship of these SDIs is implied from their grouping within this section.

Reporting Identifiers (RI) identify authorizations and individual enlisted airmen who, for any reason, are not identifiable in the classification structure and for whom specialty descriptions are not written.  The following is a complete listing of all Reporting Identifiers.