Military aviation occupations
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Military aviation occupations are types of work either shared with commercial aviation or unique to military aviation, that provide skills for the operation of an air forces business. Often military aviation employees will have had higher education due to the complexity of the electrical and mechanical systems involved in aircraft design and maintenance, in ground operations, in control of airspace and in the air.
Military aviation occupations can be subdivided as follows:
- Military aviation engineering design
- Airframe engineers
- Fuel systems engineers
- Instrumentation and electronics engineers
- Weapon systems engineers
- Military aviation operations control (ground)
- Runway design and maintenance
- Aviation safety and crash recovery occupations
- Air traffic control
- Hangar operations
- Air base operations
- Air operations command
- Military aviation maintenance operations
- Fleet operations
- Conversion maintenance
- Pre-flight maintenance
- Fuel operations occupations
- Combat operations service
- Weapons service
- Military aviation flight operations
- Flight crew occupations
- Weapons crew occupations
- Cargo crew occupations
- Passenger crew occupations
- Specialist crew occupations
- Military aviation flight command
- Air command occupations
- Air control occupations
- Air communications occupations
- Air search occupations
- Air target acquisition occupations
- Air search and rescue occupations