AFCFETP_1T2X1.pdf

DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE CFETP 1T2XX

Headquarters, US Air Force Parts I and II Washington, DC 20330-1480 15 May 2008

AFSC 1T2XX

PARARESCUE SPECIALTY

CAREER FIELD EDUCATION

AND TRAINING PLAN

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Table of Contents

PART I

Preface…………………………………………………………………………………………. 1

Abbreviations/Terms Explained……………………………………………………………... 2

Section A: General Information…………………………………………………………… Purpose of the Career Field Education and Training Plan (CFETP) Uses Coordination and Approval of the CFETP

Pararescue Pipeline Training Requirements (Figure 1)……………………………. 6

Section B: Career Field Progression and Information……………………………………… 7 Specialty Descriptions Pararescue Superintendent /Senior Enlisted Manager (SEM) Pararescue Craftsman Pararescue Journeyman Pararescue Apprentice

Skill/Career Progression Apprentice Level (3) Journeyman Level (5) Craftsman Level (7) Superintendent Level (9)

Training Criteria …………………………………………………………………… 10

Community College of the Air Force Programs…………………………………… 11

Career Field Path……………………….……………………………………………. 13

Section C: Skill Level Training Requirements……………………………………………… 13 Purpose Specialty Qualification Apprentice Level (3) Journeyman Level (5) Craftsman Level (7) Superintendent/Senior Enlisted Manager Level (9/SEM)

Section D: Resource Constraints……………………………………………………………. 16

Section E: Transitional Training Guide……………………………………………………. 16 iii

PART II

Section A: Specialty Training Standard (STS)…………………………………………….. 16

- Implementation

- Purpose

- Documentation

- Certification and De-certification Procedures

- Training Standard

- Trainer/Certifying Official Identification Form……………………………… 24

- Behavioral Statements Coding System…………………………………………… 25

- Specialty Index……………………………………………………………………... 26

Section B: Course Objective List…………………………………………………………… 42

Section C: Support Materials……………………………………………………………….. 42

Section D: Training Course Index………………………………………………………….. 42

Section E: MAJCOM Unique Requirements………………………………………………. 45

Supersedes: CFETP1T2X1, 15 November 2005

OPR: 342 TRS/DORM

Certified By: HQ USAF/A3O-AS (CMSgt Ryan Beckmann) Pages: 56

PARARESCUE SPECIALTY

AFSC 1T2X1

CAREER FIELD EDUCATION AND TRAINING PLAN

Part I

Preface

1. IAW AFPD 16-12, Pararescue and AFPD 10-35, Battlefield Airmen, 1TX21 is a Battlefield Airmen career field that operates as a component of the Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) force or part of Air Force Special Operations Command Special Tactics Teams (STS) to provide Joint Force Commanders the capability to recover combat aircrews and other isolated personnel. They also provide survival and evasion assistance, emergency and field trauma care, and security. Pararescue forces are capable of moving objectives (personnel and materiel) to safety or friendly control when direct recovery by aircraft is not possible. This Pararescue Specialty (PJ) Career Field Education and Training Plan (CFETP) is a comprehensive core training document that identifies life-cycle training/education requirements, support resources, and minimum core task requirements for the 1T2X1 specialty. The plan is a "training road map" for the career field. It provides personnel a clear career path to success and makes career field training identifiable, measurable, and budget defensible. Ensure that all records created as a result of processes prescribed in this publication are maintained in accordance with AFMAN 37-123 (will convert to AFMAN 33-363), Management of Records, and disposed of in accordance with the Air Force Records Disposition Schedule (RDS) located at https://afrims.amc.af.mil/.

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2. The CFETP consists of two parts. Supervisors use both parts of the plan in order to plan, manage, and control training within the career field.

2.1. Part I provides information necessary for overall management of the specialty. Section A explains how everyone will use the plan. Section B identifies career field progression information, duties and responsibilities, training strategies, and career field path. Section C associates each level with specialty qualifications (knowledge, education, training, and other). Section D indicates resource constraints (e.g., funds, manpower, equipment, and facilities). Section E identifies transition training guide requirements for staff sergeant through master sergeant.

2.2. Part II includes the following: Section A identifies the specialty training standard (STS) and includes duties, tasks, and technical references to support training. Air Education and Training Command (AETC) conducted training, wartime course (NOTE: Pararescue pipeline pre-requisite training and Pararescue Apprentice Course do not change for wartime), and core task and correspondence course requirements. Section B contains the course objective list and training standards supervisors will use to determine if airmen satisfy training requirements. Section C identifies available support materials.

Examples are: qualification training packages (QTP), which may be developed to support proficiency training; task, conditions, and standards (TCS) identify criterion objectives; and syllabi of instruction (SOI) to standardize on-the-job training (OJT) across the force. Section D identifies a training course index supervisors can use to determine resources available to support training. Both mandatory and optional courses are listed. Section E identifies MAJCOM-unique training requirements supervisors can use to determine additional training required for the associated qualification needs.

3. Using guidance provided in the CFETP will ensure individuals in this specialty receive effective and efficient training at the appropriate points in their career. This plan enables the career field to train today’s work force for tomorrow’s jobs.

At unit level, supervisors and trainers use Part II to identify, plan, and conduct training commensurate with the overall goals of this plan.

ABBREVIATIONS AND TERMS EXPLAINED

Advanced Training (AT). A formal course that provides individuals who are qualified in one or more positions of their Air Force Specialty (AFS) with additional skills and knowledge to enhance their expertise in the career field. Training is for selected career airmen at the advanced level of an AFS, after award of AFSC.

Air Force Career Field Manager (AFCFM). The individual charged with the responsibility for overseeing all training and career field management aspects of an Air Force Specialty.

Air Force Specialty. A group of positions requiring common qualification. Each AFS has a title and code.

Air Force Job Qualification Standard/Command Job Qualification Standard (AFJQS/CJQS). A comprehensive task list, which describes a particular job type or duty position. Supervisors use them to document task qualifications.

The tasks on AFJQS/CJQS are common to all persons serving in the described duty position.

Allocation Curves. The relation of hours of training in different training settings, to the degree of proficiency, which can be achieved on specified performance requirements.

Career Field Education and Training Plan (CFETP). A CFETP is a comprehensive, multipurpose document, encapsulating the entire spectrum of education and training for a career field. It outlines a logical growth plan that includes training resources, and is designed to make career field training identifiable, to eliminate duplication, and to ensure this training is budget defensible.

Career Training Guide (CTG). A document that uses Task Modules (TMs) in lieu of tasks to define performance and training requirements for a career field.

Continuation Training. Additional training that exceeds requirements with emphasis on present or future duty assignments.

Core Task. Tasks the AFCFM identify as minimum qualification requirements within the AFSC, regardless of duty position. Core tasks may be specified for a particular skill level or in general across the AFSC. Guidance for using core tasks can be found in the applicable CFETP narrative.

Course Objective List (COL). A publication derived from initial and advanced training course standards, identifying the tasks and knowledge requirements, and respective standards provided to achieve a 3, 5, or 7-skill level in this career field.

Supervisors use the COL to assist in conducting graduate evaluations in accordance with AFI 36-2201, Vol 1, Training Development Delivery and Evaluation.

Course Training Standard (CTS). An Air Education Training Command (AETC) specialized publication that specifies the level of performance and knowledge a student must possess upon graduation from a training course. It contains the specific job elements and functional knowledge and specifies levels of proficiency required in each. It is the prime qualitative course control document.

Enlisted Specialty Training (EST). A mix of formal training (technical school) and informal training (on-the-job) to qualify and upgrade airmen in each skill-level of a specialty.

Exportable Training. Additional training via computer assisted, paper text, interactive video, or other necessary means to supplement training.

Field Technical Training (Type 4). Special or regular on-site training conducted by a field training detachment (FTD) or by a mobile training team.

Initial Skills Training. A formal resident course that results in award of the entry level.

Instructional System Development (ISD). A deliberate and orderly, but flexible process for planning, developing, implementing, and managing instructional systems. It ensures personnel are taught in a cost efficient way the knowledge, skills, and attitudes essential for successful job performance.

Major Command Functional Manager (MFM). The individual charged with the responsibility for overseeing all training and career field management aspects of an Air Force Specialty in a given Major Command.

Occupational Survey Report (OSR). A detailed report showing the results of an occupational survey of tasks performed within a particular AFS.

On-the-Job Training (OJT). Hands-on, over-the-shoulder training conducted to certify personnel in both upgrade (skill level award) and job qualification (duty position certification) training.

Optimal Training. The ideal combination of training settings results in the highest levels of proficiency on specified performance requirements within the minimum time possible.

Qualification Training (QT). Actual hands-on, task performance training designed to qualify an individual in a specific duty position. This portion of the dual channel on-the-job training program occurs both during and after the upgrade training process. It is designed to provide the performance skills required to do the job.

Qualification Training Package (QTP). An instructional package designed for use at the unit to qualify, or aid qualification, in a duty position or program, or on a piece of equipment. It may be printed, computer-based, or in other audiovisual media.

Resource Constraints. Resource deficiencies, such as money, facilities, time, manpower, and equipment that preclude desired training from being accomplished.

Specialized Courses (SC). Courses designed specifically for use by pararescuemen.

Specialty Training. A mix of formal training (technical school) and informal training (on-the-job) to qualify and upgrade officers and airmen in each skill level of a specialty.

Specialty Training Package and COMSEC Qualification Training Package. A composite of lesson plans, test material, instructions, policy, doctrine, and procedures necessary to conduct training. These packages are prepared by AETC, approved by National Security Agency (NSA), and administered by qualified communications security (COMSEC) maintenance personnel.

Specialty Training Standard (STS). An Air Force publication that describes an Air Force Specialty in terms of tasks and knowledge, which an individual in that specialty may be expected to perform or to know how to do, on the job. An STS identifies the training provided to achieve a 3-, 5-, and 7-skill level within an enlisted AFS. It further serves as a contract between AETC and the functional user to show which of the overall training requirements for an Air Force specialty code (AFSC) are taught in formal schools and correspondence courses.

Standard. An exact value, a physical entity, or an abstract concept, established and defined by authority, custom, or common consent to serve as a reference, model, or rule in measuring quantities or qualities, establishing practices or procedures, or evaluating results. A fixed quantity or quality.

Task Module (TM). A group of tasks performed within an Air Force specialty that are performed together and that require common knowledge, skills, and abilities. An identification code and a statement identify TMs.

Total Force. All collective Air Force components (active, reserve, guard, and civilian elements) of the United States Air Force.

Training Planning Team (TPT). Comprised of the same personnel as a UTW, however TPTs are more intimately involved in training development and the range of issues are greater than is normal in the UTW forum.

Training Requirements Analysis. A detailed analysis of tasks for a particular AFS to be included in the training decision process.

Training Setting. The type of forum in which training is provided (formal resident school, on-the-job, field training, mobile training team, self-study etc.).

Upgrade Training (UGT). Mandatory training, which leads to attainment of higher level of proficiency.

Utilization and Training Pattern. A depiction of the training provided to and the jobs performed by personnel throughout their tenure within a career field or Air Force specialty. There are two types of patterns: 1) Current pattern, which is based on the training provided to incumbents and the jobs to which they have been and are assigned; and 2) Alternate pattern, which considers proposed changes in manpower, personnel, and training policies.

Utilization and Training Workshop (U&TW). A forum of MAJCOM Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) functional managers, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and AETC training personnel that determines career ladder training requirements.

Section A – General Information

1. Purpose. This CFETP provides the information necessary for Air Force career field managers (AFCFM), MAJCOM functional managers (MFM), commanders, training managers, supervisors and trainers to plan, develop, manage, and conduct an effective and efficient career field training program. The plan outlines the training individuals in this AFS should receive in order to develop and progress throughout their career. This plan identifies initial skills, upgrade, qualification, advanced, and proficiency training. Initial skills training is the AFS-specific training an individual requires for entry into the Air Force or upon retraining into this specialty for award of the 3-skill level. Normally this training is conducted by AETC at one of the technical training centers. Upgrade training identifies the mandatory courses, task qualification requirements, and correspondence completion requirements for award of the 3-, 5-, 7-, and 9-skill levels.

Qualification training is actual hands-on task performance training designed to qualify an airman in a specific duty position. This training occurs both during and after the upgrade training process. It is designed to provide the performance skills and knowledge required to do the job. Advanced training is formal specialty training used for selected airmen. Proficiency training is additional training (in-residence or exportable advanced training courses, or OJT) provided to personnel to increase their skills and knowledge beyond the minimum required for upgrade. This CFETP has several purposes. Some are:

1.1. Serves as a management tool to plan, manage, conduct, and evaluate a career field-training program. Supervisors use it to identify training at the appropriate point in an individual’s career.

1.2. Identifies task and knowledge training requirements for each skill level in the specialty and recommends education and training throughout each phase of an individual's career.

1.3. Lists training courses available in the specialty and identifies sources of training and the training delivery method.

1.4. Identifies major resource constraints that impact implementation of the desired career field training process.

2. Uses. The plan will be used by MFMs and supervisors at all levels as a standardizing basis to ensure comprehensive and cohesive training programs are available for each individual in the specialty.

2.1. AETC training personnel will develop and revise formal resident, nonresident, field and exportable training based upon requirements established by the users and documented in Part II of the CFETP. They will also work with the AFCFM to develop acquisition strategies for obtaining resources needed to provide the identified training.

2.2. MFMs will ensure their training programs complement the CFETP mandatory initial, upgrade, and proficiency requirements. OJT, resident training, contract training, or exportable courses may satisfy identified requirements.

MAJCOM-developed training supporting this AFSC must be identified for inclusion in this plan.

2.3. Each individual will complete the mandatory training requirements specified in this plan. The lists of courses in Part II will be used as a reference to support training.

2.4. QTPs, TCSs, and SOIs are developed and maintained by MFMs and/or units in coordination with AETC. Unit-developed QTPs, TCSs, and SOIs will be provided to their MAJCOM for approval and, upon approval by the AFCFM, included in the CFETP course index (Part II, Section D).

3. Coordination and Approval. The AFCFM is the approval authority. MAJCOM representatives and AETC training personnel will identify and coordinate on the career field training requirements. The AETC training manager for this specialty will complete an annual review of this document to ensure currency and accuracy. Using the list of courses in Part II will eliminate duplicate training. AFCFM will post interim message changes (IMC) for changes or updates to this document. IMCs are good for 1 year. They are added in revision and posted in section D.

Pararescue EMT-Basic (4 weeks 2 days)

Kirtland AFB NM

Pararescue EMT- Paramedic (24 weeks)

Kirtland AFB NM

USAF Pararescue Apprentice Course (22 weeks 3 days) Kirtland AFB NM

Figure 1: Pararescue Training Pipeline

Air Force Combat Dive Course - Open Circuit

(3 weeks 2 days)

PJ Indoctrination Course (9 weeks)

Lackland AFB TX

USAF Combat Survival S-V-80A (17 days) Fairchild AFB WA

USAF Underwater Egress

Training (1 day) S-V-84A

Fairchild AFB WA

PCS Kirtland AFB NM for Home Basing

Out and Back

US Army Airborne Course (3 weeks) Ft Benning, GA

US Navy Military Freefall Parachutist

Course (3 weeks) Jamul, CA Or

Military Freefall Course (4 weeks) Yuma AZ

PJ PIPELINE FLOW

Section B – Career Field Progression and Information

4. Specialty Descriptions.

4.1. Pararescue Superintendent/Enlisted Manager (9-level).

4.1.1. Specialty Summary. Conducts, supervises, manages, and evaluates pararescue activities in support of personnel recovery (PR), special operations missions, training, standardization/evaluation, and mission-specific manpower and logistics programs.

4.1.2. Duties and Responsibilities.

4.1.3. Conducts, supervises, manages, and evaluates PR and materiel recovery operations. Plans, organizes, directs, and manages pararescue forces on flying status and as surface elements to provide a rapid response search, rescue, and recovery capability for operations in the word-wide range of adverse geographic and environmental conditions, day or night, on land or water, across the full spectrum of military operations. Assigns pararescue forces to operating areas and directly supervises, manages, and evaluates mission planning and preparation, infiltration and exfiltration, insertion and extraction, surface movement, objective area actions, debriefing and reporting, and special mission activities. Plans, manages, and evaluates rescue and recovery of aerospace personnel and hardware in support of DoD and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) operations. Rescue and recovery of personnel and hardware includes recovery of human remains, aerospace hardware using surface, subsurface, and SCUBA techniques.

4.1.4. Conducts, supervises, manages, and evaluates operational plans, policy, and programs. Develop procedures to support concepts of operations and mission employment tactics. Develops, reviews, updates, and manages unit type codes and designated operational capabilities (DOC) statements, identifying pararescue forces. Performs deliberate and crisis action planning for preparing and documenting operations plans (OPLANS), concept plans (CONPLANs), and operations orders (OPORDs). Conduct inspection, review, and remedial action programs. Provide functional management for pararescue AFSC. Conduct liaison across the total force (active duty and Air Reserve components).

4.1.5. Conduct, supervise, manage, and evaluate current operations and training. Conduct current operations including contingency and exercise management. Supervises, manages, and evaluates pararescue mission planning and tasking requirements. Coordinate follow-on and career advancement training to include formal training for rescue jumpmaster, dive supervisor, and related courses to meet mission requirements. Coordinate aircraft scheduling, configuration, and use.

Manages work schedules and flying duty day requirements to ensure availability of personnel to support tasking.

Monitors support functions to ensure availability of equipment, accessibility to mission and intelligence data, and transportation. Additionally conducts, supervises, and evaluates intelligence and operations debriefings and prepares written reports. Prepares and evaluates operations readiness reports. Conducts, manages, and evaluates pararescue pipeline training, formal schools programs, continuation training activities, and specialized training programs to meet changing mission commitments. Evaluate unit air and ground training programs and mission performance to ensure directive compliance and proper mission accomplishment. Serve on mishap review panels.

4.1.6. Conducts, supervises, manages, and evaluates mission-specific manpower and logistics programs. Identifies and validates manpower, finances, material, and facilities requirements for pararescue forces. Researches, develops, monitors, and evaluates test and evaluation of procedures, techniques, and equipment related to search, rescue, and recovery operations. Develops, reviews, updates, and manages war readiness kits and materiel. Manages, monitors, and evaluates materiel deficiency programs and reports.

4.2. Pararescue Craftsman (7-Level).

4.2.1. Specialty Summary. Must have completed all line items required for Recovery Team Leader (RTL) IAW para

4.2.3 and all other items deemed necessary by their specific command job qualification standard (JQS) and unit upgrade training plan. Performs as a Recovery team leader; plans, leads, supervises, instructs, and evaluates pararescue activities.

Performs as the essential surface/air link in PR and materiel recovery operations by functioning on flying status as aircrew and surface elements. Provides a rapid response capability and operates in a wide range of adverse geographic and environmental conditions, day or night, on land or water, across the full spectrum of military operations. Provides both short-and long-term survival and evasion assistance, both short- and long-term emergency/field trauma care/patrol medicine, and security. Moves objectives (personnel and/or materiel) to safety or friendly control when direct recovery by aircraft is not possible.

4.2.2. Element Leaders (EL). The EL must be chosen from the most qualified personnel on a pararescue (PJ) team and be recommended by his supervisor. Designated ELs must hold a 5-skill level and complete the EL SOI (Section D).

Additional requirements will be completed IAW MAJCOM and unit-specific guidance. Element Leaders hold the Special Experience Identifier (SEI) 340 – Element Leader.

4.2.3. Recovery Team Leaders (RTL). The RTL must be chosen from the most qualified personnel on a PJ team and be recommended by his supervisor. Designated RTLs must have completed all 7-level core tasks and all line items in the Recovery Team Leader Syllabus of Instruction. Additional requirements will be completed IAW MAJCOM and unit-specific guidance. In addition to EL, the following qualifications are highly desired: swift water rescue and confined space rescue. Recovery Team Leaders hold the Special Experience Identifier (SEI) 341 – Recovery Team Leader.

4.2.4. Perform, lead, supervise, instruct, and evaluate infiltration and exfiltration. Conduct flight following and confirm waypoint passage; prepares and dons mission and personal equipment; performs chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive (CBRNE) warfare defense; provide survival, evasion, resistance, escape (SERE) expertise; provides en route emergency/field trauma care and team/patrol medicine; and conduct/supervises offloads and transfer of objectives to higher echelon/trauma care; perform in-flight duties as a non-rated aircrew member on flying status, and may provide avoidance and suppression of air and surface threats through day/night scanning, navigation assistance, and aerial gunnery operations.

4.2.5. Perform, lead, supervise, instruct, and evaluate insertion and extraction. Provide guidance for on-scene operations;

selects insertion point; performs chemical warfare defense; performs aerial insertion and extraction operations to include static line and military freefall operations; provides recovery zone security and aircraft reception and performs or assists on-load of objectives by rescue hoist; air, land, and surface methods.

4.2.6. Perform, lead, supervise, instruct, and evaluate surface movement. Conduct land/water navigation; perform overt, low visibility, or clandestine movement in friendly, hostile, denied, or sensitive global land and water areas; conducts CBRNE warfare defense; designate rallying points; selects bivouac sites; conducts discrete surface-to-air and surface electronic and visual communications and signaling activities; employ firearms and munitions to provide movement security and performs immediate action drills; direct and adjust ground and aerial fire support; provides reception for re-supply operations; conduct surface, subsurface, SCUBA, adverse terrain and mountain rescue operations; provide survival and evasion assistance; provide en route emergency and field medical care; and perform SERE.

4.2.7. Performs, leads, supervises, instructs, and evaluates objective area actions. Conducts surface, contact, and on-scene authentication; directs area security; manages on-scene triage and survivor handling; conducts emergency survival assistance and emergency/field trauma care and team/patrol medicine; guides recovery of priority aerospace materiel; and provides photographic documentation.

4.2.8. Supports, performs, supervises, instructs, and evaluates debriefing and reporting. Provides intelligence and operations information during debriefings and prepares written reports.

4.2.9. Conducts supervision and management. Supervises, manages, and ensures effective performance of pararescue personnel and equipment assets; interprets and enforces policy and applicable directives in support of commanders; plans and structures pararescue activities; manages on-the-job training, requalification, and continuation training; supervises and manages operations and training missions; provides quality control to assure combat readiness; ensures safe and effective operations IAW current directives; and supervises acquisition, maintenance, and repair of organizational equipment.

Initiate paperwork to obtain a TS clearance.

4.3. Pararescue Journeyman (5-level).

4.3.1. Specialty Summary. Performs as EL after appropriate upgrade IAW para 4.2.2. Plans, leads, supervises, instructs, and evaluates pararescue activities. Perform as the essential surface/air link on PR and materiel recovery operations by functioning on flying status as aircrew or surface elements. Provides a rapid response capability and operate in a wide range of adverse geographic and environmental conditions, day or night, on land or water, across the full spectrum of military operations. Provide short and long term survival and evasion assistance, both short and long-term emergency/field trauma care and team/patrol medicine, and security. Move objectives (personnel and/or materiel) to safety or friendly control when direct recovery by aircraft is not possible.

4.3.2. Duties and Responsibilities.

4.3.3. Supports mission planning and preparation. Responds to warning orders or mission requirements; studies terrain and situation; prepares uniforms, mission equipment, weapons, and munitions; rehearses mission plan; safeguards information; and loads and configures aircraft.

4.3.4. Performs infiltration and exfiltration. Performs flight following and confirms waypoint passage; prepares and dons mission and personal equipment; performs chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive (CBRNE) warfare defense; provides SERE expertise; provides enroute emergency/field trauma care, team/patrol medicine; and performs offload and transfer of objectives to higher echelon medical care; performs non-rated aircrew duties on flying status and; may provide avoidance and suppression of air and surface threats through day/night scanning, navigation assistance, and aerial gunnery operations.

4.3.5. Performs insertion and extraction. Provides input for on-scene operations, confirms insertion points, performs chemical warfare defense, performs aerial insertion and extraction operations to include static line and military freefall;

provides recovery zone security and aircraft reception, and performs or assists on-load of objectives using aerial and surface methods.

4.3.6. Performs surface movement. Performs overt, low visibility, or clandestine movement in friendly, hostile, denied, or sensitive global land and water areas; performs CBRNE warfare defense; performs land, water navigation; performs formation security; uses rallying points; prepares bivouac sites; performs discrete surface-to-air and surface-to-surface electronic and visual communications and signaling activities; employs firearms and munitions to perform immediate action drills; requests ground and aerial fire support; provides reception for re-supply operations; performs surface, subsurface, SCUBA, adverse terrain, and mountain rescue operations; provides survival and evasion assistance; provides enroute emergency/field trauma care, team/patrol medicine; and performs SERE.

4.3.7. Performs objective area actions. Performs surface search, contact, and on-scene authentication; provides local security; provides emergency survival assistance; provides on-scene triage and survivor handling; provides emergency/field trauma care, team/patrol medicine; and recovers priority aerospace materiel.

4.3.8. Performs debriefing and reporting. Provides intelligence and operation information during debriefings.

4.4. Pararescue Apprentice (3-level).

4.4.1. Specialty Summary. Perform as the essential surface/air link on PR and materiel recovery operations by functioning on flying status as aircrew or surface elements. Provides a rapid response capability and operates in a wide range of adverse geographic and environmental conditions, day or night, on land or water, across the full spectrum of military operations. Provide short and long term survival and evasion assistance, both short and long-term emergency/field trauma care, team/patrol medicine, and security. Move objectives (personnel and/or materiel) to safety or friendly control when direct recovery by aircraft is not possible.

4.4.2. Duties and Responsibilities.

4.4.3. Supports mission planning and preparation. Responds to warning orders or mission requirements; studies terrain and situation; prepares uniforms, mission equipment, weapons, and munitions; rehearses mission plan; safeguards information; and loads and configures aircraft.

4.4.4. Performs infiltration and exfiltration. Performs flight following and confirms waypoint passage; prepares and dons mission and personal equipment; performs chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive (CBRNE) warfare defense; provides SERE expertise; provides enroute emergency/field trauma care, team/patrol medicine; and performs offload and transfer of objectives to higher echelon/trauma care; performs non-rated aircrew duties on flying status, and may provide avoidance and suppression of air and surface threats through day/night scanning, navigation assistance, and aerial gunnery operations.

4.4.5. Performs insertion and extraction. Provides input for on-scene operations, confirms insertion points, performs chemical warfare defense, performs aerial insertion and extraction operations to include static line and military freefall, provides recovery zone security and aircraft reception, and performs or assists on-load of objectives using aerial and surface methods.

4.4.6. Performs surface movement. Performs overt, low visibility, or clandestine movement in friendly, hostile, denied, or sensitive global land and water areas; performs CBRNE warfare defense; performs land/water navigation; performs formation security; uses rallying points; prepares bivouac sites; performs discrete surface-to-air and surface-to-surface electronic and visual communications and signaling activities; employs firearms and munitions to perform immediate action drills; requests ground and aerial fire support; provides reception for re-supply operations; performs surface, subsurface, SCUBA, adverse terrain, and mountain rescue operations; provides survival and evasion assistance; provides enroute emergency/field trauma care, team/patrol medicine; and performs SERE.

4.4.7. Performs objective area actions. Performs surface search, contact, and on-scene authentication; provides local security; provides emergency survival assistance; provides on-scene triage and survivor handling; provides emergency/field trauma care, team/patrol medicine; and recovers priority aerospace materiel.

4.4.8. Performs debriefing and reporting. Provides intelligence and operation information during debriefings.

5. Skill and Career Progression. Adequate training and timely progression from the apprentice to the superintendent level play an important role in the Air Force’s ability to accomplish its mission. Everyone involved in training must do his or her part to plan, manage, and conduct an effective training program. The guidance provided in this part of the CFETP will ensure each Airman receives viable training at the appropriate points in their career.

5.1. Apprentice 3-Skill Level. Initial skills training in this specialty consists of the tasks and knowledge training provided in the Pararescue Apprentice Course. Task and knowledge training requirements are identified in the STS (Part

II, Section A). Individuals must complete the Pararescue Apprentice Course and all prerequisite courses to be awarded

AFSC 1T231.

5.2. Journeyman 5-Skill Level. Upgrade training to the 5-skill level is initiated immediately after arriving to first duty station. Training will consist of a minimum 15 months/9 months for retrainees. In this specialty, upgrade training consists of completing 5-skill level CDCs, if available, 5-skill level core tasks, duty position requirements per the STS, and any other MAJCOM or unit directed OJT requirements.

5.3. Craftsman 7-Skill Level. Upgrade training to the 7-skill level is initiated on 1 Sep of the year the trainee is selected for promotion to Staff sergeant. Training will consist of a minimum of 12 months/6 months for retrainees. In this specialty, upgrade training consists of completing all 7-skill level core tasks, duty position requirements per the STS, and any other MAJCOM- or unit-directed training requirements.

5.4. Superintendent 9-Skill Level. Must be a Pararescue Craftsman. In this specialty, upgrade training consists of completing all 7-skill level core tasks, duty position requirements per the STS, and any other MAJCOM- or unit-directed training requirements.

6. Training Criteria. The CFETP uses a building block approach (simple to complex) to encompass the entire spectrum of training requirements for the pararescue career field. The spectrum includes a strategy for when, where, and how to meet training requirements. The strategy must be apparent and affordable to reduce duplication of training and eliminate a disjointed approach to training. The following training objectives were decided upon during the 1T2XX U&TW and HQ USAF/A3/5 directed conferences:

6.1. Pararescue Pipeline Course of Initial Entry (COIE). All retrainees, prior service, Guard and Reserve, and Non Prior Service Airmen (BMT graduates) will enter and must graduate the Pararescue Indoctrination Course before they can enter the follow-on Pararescue training pipeline.

6.1.1. The Pararescue Indoctrination Course is designed to fulfill three purposes: (1) function as an indoctrination to the rigors of the pararescue pipeline and career field by training Airmen in the fundamentals of physical fitness (run, swim, calisthenics, weight training, and underwater confidence; (2) emphasize teamwork and the Pararescue core values built upon the Air Force core values of integrity, service, and excellence in all we do.; and (3) prepare an individual for pipeline and career field success. By building the core values of integrity, we instill in Airmen the moral traits of accepting responsibility, having courage to do what’s right, having a sense of justice (being fair), having self-respect, and understanding the importance of meeting standards. The core values of service before self is reflected in the Pararescueman's Code: “It is my duty, as a pararescueman to save life and aid the injured. I will be prepared at all times to perform my assigned duties quickly and efficiently, placing these duties before personal desires and comforts. These things I do that others may live." We instill “Excellence in all we do” in Airmen so they will develop a passion for continuous improvement in their careers.

6.1.2. Upon completion of Pararescue Indoctrination Course, individuals will complete the following pararescue pipeline pre-requisite qualification training:

(1) Air Force Combat Dive Course - Open Circuit

(2) US Army Airborne

(3) Combat Survival Training Course (S-V80-A)

(4) Underwater Egress (S-V84-A)

(5) US Navy Freefall Course or US Army Military Freefall Parachutist

(6) Pararescue Emergency Medical Technician – Basic

(7) Pararescue Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic

These courses are mandatory pre-requisites for entry into the AFSC awarding Pararescue Apprentice Course The Pararescue Apprentice Course content is recorded in Part II of this CFETP. Personnel must complete the pipeline pre-requisite qualification training to be awarded AFSC 1T231.

NOTE: Pararescue Airmen will attend the Air Force Closed Circuit Dive Transition Course upon receiving orders to Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) or AFSOC gained ARC units.

6.1.3. Retrainees and Prior Service Personnel. Trainees will complete the Pararescue pipeline pre-requisite qualification not already accomplished.

6.2. 5-Level Upgrade Requirements. Member enters journeyman training immediately after arriving at first duty station. Training will consist of a minimum of 15 months/9 months for retrainees (OJT). Refer to AFI 36-2201, Vol 3, Air Force Training: On-the-Job Training Administration for minimum time in training waiver process.

6.3. 7-Level Upgrade Requirements. Training will consist of a minimum of 12 months/6 months for retrainees (OJT).

No formal course required. Refer to AFI 36-2201, Vol 3, for minimum time in training waiver process.

6.4. Mission Readiness and Continuation Training. Training conducted IAW AFI 16-1202 Vol 1, Pararescue and Combat Rescue Officer Training

6.5. Requalification Training. Prior service pararescue personnel returning to the career field and who have not practiced pararescue skills for five years or more must meet the following re-qualification requirements:

6.5.1. Pass Pararescue physical fitness evaluation IAW AFI 16-1202 Vol 2 Pararescue and Combat Rescue Officer Evaluations.

6.5.2. Pass a Class III flight physical.

6.5.3. Complete altitude chamber training.

6.5.4. Qualify for appropriate security clearance.

6.5.5. Complete requalification requirements for military freefall IAW AFI 11-410, Personnel Parachute Program and AFMAN 11-411, Special Forces Military Freefall Operations (restricted).

6.5.6. Complete requalification requirements for Open Circuit and/or Closed Circuit Dive IAW US Navy standards A/R.

6.5.7. Complete re-qualification requirements for EMT-P IAW NREMT.

6.5.8. Complete the Pararescue Apprentice Course (non-waiverable).

7. Community College of the Air Force (CCAF). Enrollment in CCAF occurs upon completion of basic military training. CCAF provides the opportunity to obtain an Associate in Applied Sciences Degree. In addition to its associate’s degree program, CCAF offers the following:

7.1. Occupational Instructor Certification. Upon completion of instructor qualification training, consisting of an instructor methods course and supervised practice teaching, CCAF instructors who possess an associates degree or higher may be nominated by their school commander and commandant for certification as an occupational instructor.

7.2. Trade Skill Certification. When a CCAF student separates or retires, a trade skill certification is awarded for the primary occupational specialty. The college uses a competency based assessment process for trade skill certification at one of four proficiency levels: apprentice, journeyman, craftsman/supervisor, or master craftsman/manager. All are transcribed on the CCAF transcript.

7.3. Degree Requirements. All airmen are automatically entered into the CCAF program. Prior to completing an associate’s degree, the 5-skill level must be awarded and the following requirements must be met:

Pararescue (7GDP) CCAF Degree

OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTY: 1T2XX

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS: The journeyman (5-skill level) must be held at the time of program completion.

Semester Hours Technical Education……………………………………………………………………………….. 24 Leadership, Management, and Military Studies…………………………………………..………. 6 Physical Education………………………………………………………………………..……….. 4 General Education…………………………………………………………………………… Program Elective…………………………………………………………………………………... 15 Total 64

TECHNICAL EDUCATION. (24 Semester Hours): A minimum of 12 semester hours of technical core subjects or courses must be applied and the remaining semester hours applied from technical core, technical elective subjects or courses. Requests to substitute comparable courses or to exceed specified semester hour values in any subject or course must be approved in advance by the Services Branch. Refer to page 1-10 for Application of Courses to Technical Education Requirement.

Technical Core Subjects and Courses Semester Hours Air Operations……………………………………………………………………………………….. 9 CCAF Internship…………………………………………………………….…………………

Emergency Medicine…………………………………………………………..……………………. 12 Evasion and Recovery……………………………………………………………………………….. 3 General Principles of Survival……………………………………………………..………………… 12 Ground Operations…………………………………………………………………………………… 12 Mountain Travel and Rescue Techniques……………………………………………………..…….. 3 Pararescue Indoctrination……………………………………………………………………..……… 3 Psychology of Environmental Stress…………………………………………………………..…….. 3

Technical Electives Subjects and Courses Maximum Semester Hours Computer Science……………………………………………………………………………………. 6 Enlisted Professional Military Education…………………………………………..………… Human Anatomy and Physiology……………………………………………………………………. 3 Parachuting and SCUBA Diving…………………………………………………………………….. 6 Physical Geography……..…………………………………………………………………………… 3 Weapons Familiarization…………………………………………………………………………….. 3

LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND MILITARY STUDIES (LMMS) (6 Semester Hours):

Professional military education or civilian management courses. See pages 1-13 for Application of Courses to Leadership, Management, and Military Studies.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION. (4 Semester Hours):

PHE 1000……………………………………………………………………………………………. 4

GENERAL EDUCATION. (15 Semester Hours):

Applicable courses must meet the Criteria for Application of Courses to General Education Requirement (GER) and be in agreement with the definitions of applicable general education subjects and courses provided on page 1-12.

Subjects and Courses Semester Hours Oral Communication………………………………………………………………………………… 3

Speech Written Communication…………………………………………………………………………

English Composition Mathematics…………………………………………………………………………………………. 3

Intermediate algebra or a college-level mathematics course is required. If an acceptable mathematics course is applied as a technical or program elective, a natural science course meeting GER application criteria may be applied as a general education requirement.

Social Science………………………………………………………………………………… Anthropology, archaeology, economics, geography, government, history, political science, psychology, sociology

Humanities…………………………………………………………………………………………… 3 Fine arts (criticism, appreciation, historical significance), foreign language, literature, philosophy, religion

PROGRAM ELECTIVE. (15 Semester Hours): Satisfied with applicable technical education, LMMS, or general education subjects and courses, including natural science courses meeting GER application criteria and foreign language credit earned at the Defense Language Institute or through the Defense Language Proficiency Test. Six semester hours of CCAF degree-applicable technical credit otherwise not applicable to this program may be applied.

8. Career Field Path

8.1. Manpower Table.

CMSGT SMSGT MSGT TSGT SSGT SRA A1C TOTAL

8 16 59 68 137 87 49 424

8.2. Enlisted Career Path.

Table 8-2: Enlisted Career Path

GRADE REQUIREMENTS

Education and Training Requirements

Rank Average Sew-On

Earliest Sew-On

High Year Of Tenure

(HYT)

Basic Military Training School Apprentice Technical School (3-skill level)

Amn

6 months

Upgrade to Journeyman (5-skill level)

- Minimum 15 months/9 months for retrainees.

- Complete appropriate CDC if/when available.

A1C SrA

16 months 3 years

28 months

12 years

Airman Leadership School (ALS)

- Must be a SrA with 48 months time in service or be a SSgt Select.

- Resident graduation is a prerequisite for SSgt sew-on (Active Duty Only).

Upgrade to Craftsman (7-skill level)

- Minimum rank of SSgt.

- Minimum 12 months/6 months for retrainees.

- Complete appropriate CDC if/when available.

- Advanced Technical School.

SSgt 7.5 years 3 years 20 years

Noncommissioned Officer Academy

(NCOA)

- Must be a TSgt or TSgt Select.

- Resident graduation is a prerequisite for MSgt sew-on (Active Duty Only).

TSgt

MSgt

12.5 years

16 years

5 years

8 years

24 years

26 years USAF Senior NCO Academy (SNCOA)

- Must be a MSgt or SMSgt Select.

- Resident graduation is a prerequisite for CMSgt sew-on (Active Duty Only).

SMSgt 19.2 years 11 years 28 years

Upgrade to Superintendent (9-skill level)

- Minimum rank of SMSgt

CMSgt 21.5 years 14 years 30 years

Section C – Skill Level Training Requirements

9. Purpose. Skill level training requirements in this career field are defined in terms of tasks and knowledge requirements. This section outlines the specialty qualification requirements for each skill level in broad, general terms and establishes the mandatory requirements for entry, award, and retention of each skill level. The specific task and knowledge training requirements are identified in the STS at Part II, Section A of this CFETP. Unit work centers must develop a structured training program utilizing the Air Staff approved Pararescue Tasks, Conditions, and Standards (TCSs) document.

10. Specialty Qualification:

10.1. Apprentice Level Training:

10.1.1. Knowledge. Knowledge of the following is mandatory: mission planning and preparation; aircraft and load characteristics; infiltration and exfiltration; insertion and extraction; surface movement; objective area actions; debriefing and reporting; Recovery team leader actions; emergency trauma and field medical care; basic and advance parachuting;

adverse terrain and mountain operations; surface, subsurface, SCUBA and water operations; CBRNE warfare defense;

SERE; night vision devices; firearms and munitions; communications and signaling; photographic documentation; legal responsibilities and ethics; vehicle operations; security; occupational safety and health, administration, and publications;

individual fitness; and equipment qualification, inspection, maintenance, and accountability.

10.1.2. Education. Completion of high school and a certified emergency medical technician or paramedic course is desirable for entry into this specialty.

10.1.3. Training. Completion of the following courses are mandatory for award of AFSC 1T231:

(1) Pararescue Indoctrination Course

(2) US Army Static Line/Airborne

(3) Air Force Open Circuit Dive Course

(4) Combat Survival Training

(5) Underwater Egress Training

(6) US Navy Freefall/Military Freefall Parachutist

(7) Emergency Medical Technician-Basic Course

(8) Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic Course

(9) Pararescue Apprentice Course

10.1.4. Experience. The following experience is mandatory for award of the AFSC indicated. Practical experience commensurate with education areas listed in the previous paragraph is highly desirable.

10.1.5. Other. The following requirements are mandatory for entry, award, and retention of these AFSC 1T231:

10.1.5.1. Physical qualification for aircrew, parachute, and marine diving duty…