Careers

Career Description

As a Special Operations Weather Team (SOWT) Specialist, you'll be a battlefield Airman who works hand in hand with other special operations units providing the information they need to complete their missions. Using high-tech atmospheric instruments, you'll retrieve data from radar and weather satellites and relay it to teams as they carry out high-risk missions. You'll receive extensive combat and survival skills and deploy around the world in a variety of climatic conditions. As a SOWT Specialist, you'll always be ready at a moment's notice to carry out the next mission.

Career Tasks

• Plan, supervise, give instructions and perform evaluations on special operations weather teams
• Collect, analyze, and predict oceanographic, meteorological and space atmosphere conditions; merge and prepare reports on weather advisories, warnings, and inclement environmental conditions
• Collect weather data, observe meteorological conditions and integrate into military making decisions
• Learn how to read and interpret weather satellite imagery, climatology reports and computerized weather prediction

Relevant Interests & Skills

• Intelligence
• Natural Science
• Special Operations
• Future Technology

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 Special Operations Weather Team Specialist (Males Only) technical training:

School location: Lackland AFB [TX]

Length of course: varies

College degree earned: Weather Technology

College credits earned: 72