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What is the CFETP?
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Career Field education and Training Plan - manages officer career professional development. Latest one = 25 July 2013
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What is the purpose of the CFETP?
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Highly trained maintenance officers.
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What does TBA stand for?
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Training business area
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AFCOMAC Course
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Air Force Combat Ammunition Center
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AMMOS
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Advanced Maintenance and Munitions Operations School - Weapon school equivalent - taught at Nellis AFB
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MOIC
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Maintenance Officer Intermediate Course
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Utilization and Training Workshop
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where colonels decide what they want lieutenants to learn in AFSC Schools
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AMIC
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Aircraft Mishap Investigation Course
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JEMIC
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Jet Engine mishap investigation course
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CTS
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Course Training Standard
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Expectation of Maintenance Officers
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Perform Assigned Duties Well
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Logistics Cross Flow
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Opportunity to work as an LRO = if you're staying within the 21 series AFSC, it's a cross flow, not a career broadening
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Career Broadening
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outside of the 21 AFSC Career Field
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ALEET
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Acquisition & logistics experience exchange tour = cross flow of highly competitive officers = must be a cat with one operational tour
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Logistics Career Broadening Program
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must be captain and have completed an AMU OIC or Ops Officer assignment - opportunity for select officers to spend a tour at an Air Logistics Complex or Defense Logistics Agency
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Basic Developmental Education
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Squadron officer School - attend as a captain - in residence is preferred, but correspondence is an option
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Intermediate Developmental Education
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Air Command & Staff College - attend as a major - in residence is preferred, but correspondence is an option
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Senior Developmental Education
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Air War College - attend as a lieutenant colonel - in residence is preferred, but correspondence is an option
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Maintenance Squadron
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MXS performs on and off equipment maintenance, maintains ground equipment, fabricates parts and builds munitions. Maintenance squadron if less than 700 personnel
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More than 700 people
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Component Maintenance Squadron (CMS) and Equipment Maintenance Squadron (EMS)
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Accessories Flight
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Electrical and Environmental Egress Fuels Systems Hydraulic Section
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Electrical and Environmental
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Electrical-environmental section (E&E) - performs on/off equipment maintenance on the following aircraft systems and components (liquid nitrogen, liquid oxygen, gaseous oxygen, air conditioning) repairs, overhauls, tests, modifies, and inspections electrical components and wiring harnesses Maintains all aircraft batteries/charging units Maintains, repairs, orders parts and keeps historical records on these servicing carts: Gaseous oxygen, nitrogen
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Egress Section
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Egress section - maintains egress systems, components, and trainers provides storage for egress explosive systems provides egress qualification training ensures Grounded instructional training aircraft (GITA) are explosive safe ensures all static display aircraft are explosive safe by removing explosive devices
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Fuels Systems
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Fuels Systems Section - repairs, functionally checks, and inspects fuel systems, fuel tanks, hydrazine systems, and related components provides hydrazine safety training Forms hydrazine response teams meets monthly with P&S to schedule TCTOs on tanks Performs maintenance on AME Fuel tanks Performs WRM Tank maintenance inspections/maintenance provides equipment, tools, bench stock for WRM Tank build up training meets quarterly with MXG WRMO, wing WRM NCO and military training section assigned personnel receive periodic physical exams
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Hydraulic Section
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Hydraulic Section - maintains pneumatic, hydraulic and pneudjralic systems and components provides maintenance for support and test equipment Maintains hydraulic test stands, pumping units, and associated equipment local manufacture/testing of hose assemblies and tubing pneudraulic maintenance on munitions handling equipment repair, overhaul, and bench check of hydraulic power components
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Avionics Flight
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Com Nav Section Sensors Section Electronic Warfare System Section Guidance/Control System Section
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Com Nav Section
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Communication Navigation Section - performs off equipment maintenance and/or CND Screening on communication/navigation components and systems Maintains the following components: radar altimeter, HF and UHF radios, IFF, ADF, TACAN, Cockpit Voice, Recorder, ELT, secure voice, GPS
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Sensors Section
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Sensors Section - maintains off-equipment maintenance of sensor systems and associated support equipment maintains POD histories and maintains the following components: pave penny, FLIR/DLIR, AVTR, IRADS, CTVS, LANTIRN
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Electronic Warfare System Section
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Electronic Warfare System Section (EWS) - performs on/off equipment maintenance on aircraft EWS components Verifies operation of installed RWR equipment stores and controls non-installed EA PODs Manages the POD CANN Program loads proper contingency and training configuration settings in ECM POD's, Infrared countermeasures systems and RWRs
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Guidance Control Systems Section (GCS)
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Guidance/Control Systems Section (GCS) performs off-equipment maintenance on GCS To include: automatic flight controls, attitude heading reference system (AHRS), inertial nav system (INS), nav computers maintains compass and stability augmentation systems (SAS) weapons release computer systems (WRCS) and flight data recorders (FDR)
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Propulsion Flight
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Jet, Turboprop, Turbo-Shaft engine intermediate maintenance section (JEIM) Supply Section Test Cell and Noise Suppression Section Module/accessory repair section (OPERATES THE BEARING ROOM) Small Gas Turbine Section Propeller Section Engine Management Section
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Jet, Turboprop, Turbo-shaft engine intermediate maintenance section (JEIM)
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stores, builds, tears down, modifies and repairs engines/modules, QEC Kits and test components prepares propulsion units for shipment ensures compliance and documentation of TCTOs ensures use of CEMS (comprehensive engine management system) products for all engines ensures an engine work folder is established during periodic inspection
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Supply Section
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Supply section - monitors bench stock, processes/tracks supply transactions, operate tool storage area
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Test Cell and Noise Suppression Section
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Test cell and noise suppression section - tests engines to ensure quality of maintenance accomplish engines preservations ensures test cell components are calibrated on site if possible ensures HALON 1301 releases are reported
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Module/accessory repair section
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Module/accessory repair section - OPERATES THE BEARING ROOM operates/maintains the bearing room repairs/maintains fuel nozzles, fuel manifolds oil pumps, accessory housing, afterburners, thrust reversers, augmentors, engines components and modules
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Small gas turbine section
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Small gas turbine section repairs/maintains small gas turbines used in aircraft (APU) operates small gas turbine engines and test stands
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Propeller Section
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Propeller section - repairs/builds-up/tear-down/modifies propellers valve housings, pump housings, and associated components
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Engine Management Section
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Engine management section - administratively falls under group-level maintenance operations physically located in propulsion flights monitor engine removals and replacements, component tracking, engine TCTOs and TCIs, engine records in the MIS and CEMS and perform engine manager duties
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TMDE Flight
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PMEL Lab Production Control Section Quality Program (QP)/Quality Assurance (QA) TODO/TODA
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PMEL Lab Section
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PMEL Lab - maintains, calibrates, and certifies TMDE, traceable to the national institute of standards and technology includes work areas such as voltage, impedance, time/frequency, microwave, temperature, mechanical dimensional and optics Performs in-lab and on site calibration and repair using lab equipment and portable equipment
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Production Control Section
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Production Control Section - consists of customer service function, production scheduling and maintenance supply liason AFSC 2R1X1 schedules should be assigned AFSC 2S0X1 inventory management journeyman should also be assigned Uses PAMS/MIS to maintain an accurate master ID Listing, process equipment and provide current stats Customer Service function - establishes procedures for turn-in and pick up of TMDE and produce monthly schedules Production scheduling balances incoming workload, manages and schedules TMDE TCTOs based on 3 categories: emergency, mission essential, routine
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Equipment Maintenance Squadron (EMS)
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AGE Flight Armament Flight Fabrication Flight Maintenance Flight
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AGE Flight
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Organized as consolidated maintenance unit - MAJCOMs may break AGE into teams Repair and Inspection - major maintenance on powered and non-powered AGE, perform TCTOs, perform Age operational checks Servicing, pickup, and delivery - ensures proper fuel/oil levels and other servicing requirements are met - prepares AGE for deployments - pick-up/delivers AGE AGE Scheduling - responsible for AGE historical documents - prepares AGE maintenance plan - schedules, controls, and monitors TCTOs, TCIs, and OTIs AGE Sub-Pools - site for future dispatch, other than central age parking area - based on mission needs, facilities, and base layout - coordinated through base airfield manager - HAS TO BE COORDINATE THROUGH THE BASE AIRFIELD MANAGER
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Armament Flight
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Armament Flight Normally consists of three sections - maintenance, alternate mission equipment, and support - when supporting more than one AMU, may be divided into more than one combat armament support team (CAST)
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Fabrication Flight
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Aircraft Structural Maintenance Section Metals Tech Section (WELD) Non Destructive Inspection Section (NDI)
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Aircraft Structural Maintenance Section
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Aircraft structural maintenance section (SHEET METAL) - manages structural repair, corrosion control, composite repair, and low observable coatings - provides inspection, damage evaluation, repair, manufacture, and/or modification of metallic composite, plastic components and related hardware associated with aircraft and support equipment - repairs honeycomb panels, dome antennas, radomes, metals bonded, and composite materials - designs and constructs special jigs and dies, manufactures metal tubing, conduits and cables - ensures facilities equipment, and materials are available to remove and treat corrosion - ensures weekly/monthly wash and corrosion schedules in the plans are met
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Metals Tech Section
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(WELD)- inspect, repairs, manufactures, fabricates performs heat treating and welding - test aircraft and equipment components and tools - ensures proper materials are selected for local manufacture
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Non-Destructive Inspection Section (NDI)
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non-destructive inspection section (NDI) = XRAYS - performs NDI of aircraft, engines, AGE, other equipment, manages OAP - performs optical dye penetrant magnetic particle, ultrasonic, eddy current, and radiographic inspections - do not make serviceability determinations - findings are normally limited to a description (example = size, location, type of defect discovered) - operates the OAP Lab, tracks OIL sample response times, ensures compliance
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Maintenance Flight
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Repair and Reclamation Section (R&R) Wheel & Tire Section (W&T) Aircraft Inspection Section (W&T) Refurbishment Section Transient Aircraft Maintenance Section
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Repair and Reclamation Section (R&R)
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Repair & reclamation Section (R&R) - removes, replaces and rigs flight control surfaces/systems - maintains landing gear, doors, and associated equipment beyond the capability of other activities - if required, handles towed largest and airborne reel pods - may be tasked with CDDAR duties
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Wheel & Tire Section (W&T)
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Wheel & Tire section (W&T) - manages build up, repair, test, and storage of wheel & tire components - provide the capability to degrease/disassemble wheel components - inspects/maintains safety equipment - may be tasked with CDDAR duties
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Aircraft inspection Section
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Aircraft Inspection Section - performs aircraft (phase, isochronal, letter check) inspections - basic flow = pre dock, look phase, fix phase, QA, Ops checks, post-dock
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Refurbishment Section
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Refurbishment section - if established performs interior/exterior refurbishment of assigned aircraft, optional alignment under either fabrication or maintenance flight - ensures integrity of existing structure, coatings, and fabrics through repair or replacement - ensures environmental compliance
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Transient Aircraft Maintenance Section
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Transient aircraft maintenance section (Transient alert) - recovers, services, inspects, and minor maintenance while launching/recovering transient aircraft - recovers and delivers deceleration chutes - takes oil samples, performs cross servicing - takes aircraft status to MOC - completes reimbursement documentation - uses base transit JCN Register (AF 861)
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Engine Preservation
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Accomplished by propulsion flight in the test cell section
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Who is responsible for establish the base CDDAR Program
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MXG/CC is responsible for establish the base CDDAR program
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Who is responsible to collaborate & develop a publication that assigns responsibilities and procedures to implement CDDAR Program (rapid removal, hot brakes, off base CDDAR)
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WG/CC
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What must the CDDAR Supplemental AFI accomplish:
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Supplemental AFI must address the following: responsibilities of each base/tenant organization personnel required for CDDAR Operations Equipment, tools, vehicles, and other supplies PPE and tech data CDDAR support to GSUs (if applicable) after hours support procedures
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Minimum coordinating agencies for CDDAR
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Minimum coordinating agencies - fire department, wing safety, civil engineering, EOD, security Forces, bio-environmental engineering, airfield manager
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CDDAR Team Chief Responsibilities
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CDDAR Team Chief Responsibilities Responsibilities Approved in writing by MXG/CC Tracked on special cert roster Must be a SNCO or civilian equivalent develop course control documents for CDDAR training review support agreements and base disaster response plans annually inform MXG/CC of equipment shortages/serviceability that prevents effective CDDAR support ensure sufficient personnel are trained to support CDDAR operations
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CDDAR Training
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all members must receive training provided through an AETC formal training course within six months of assignment (ARC = 12 months) recurring training every 12 months
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CDDAR Equipment
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a list of all crash recovery equipment will be maintained all equipment will be centrally located and stored in a manner that allows for rapid response inspect and operationally check all equipment quarterly
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Maintenance Flight Exercises
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conduct crash recovery exercises at least annually involved all wing agencies simulate lifting of operational aircraft attache and apply tension to lifting cables at least every three years demonstrate crash recovery equipment
