Careers

Career Description

In the heat of battle, it's important to know exactly where you stand. As a Sensor Operator, you will provide the intelligence our forces need in order to know what actions to take. You'll use state-of-the-art equipment to perform surveillance and reconnaissance and provide close air support and real-time battle damage assessment. You will also use precision-guided munitions to help eliminate targets and threats. As a Sensor Operator, you'll play a vital role in keeping people safe and making sure missions succeed.

Career Tasks

• Perform intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance
• Operate remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) mission equipment, systems, electro-optical sensor systems and electronic protection (EP) equipment
• Gather, record, display and distribute mission information
• Assist in mission planning, including close air support, interdiction, armed reconnaissance, combat search and rescue and limited forward air control

Relevant Interests & Skills

• Weaponry and Materiel
• Intelligence
• Computers and Computer Science

Training

After eight-and-a-half weeks of Basic Military Training, every Airman goes to technical training to learn their career. Here's the basic information about Sensor Operator technical training:

School locations: March AFB [CA], Lackland AFB [TX], Randolph AFB [TX], Creech AFB [NV], Holloman AFB [NM]

Length of course: varies

College credits earned: varies