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Aircrew Flight Equipment, Aircrew Life Support Summary

Manages, performs, and schedules inspections, maintenance, and adjustments of assigned aircrew flight equipment (AFE), aircrew chemical defense equipment (ACDE), and associated supplies, and inventories assets. Prepares, maintains, and monitors AFE operations. Disassembles, assembles, inspects, fabricates, cleans, repairs, and packs aerospace weapon system components such as protective clothing, flotation equipment, emergency evacuation systems, and parachutes. Schedules, supervises, and conducts aircrew chemical defense and aircrew continuation training. Prepares for response to use of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons contamination and supervises and conducts contamination control area processing.

Responsibilities Aircrew Flight Equipment, Aircrew Life Support

Duties and Responsibilities

For the Aircraft Mechanic – Service mechanic Include but are not limited to

• Inspects, maintains, packs and adjusts aircrew flight equipment such as flight helmets, oxygen masks, parachutes, flotation devices, survival kits, helmet mounted devices, aircrew night vision and other ocular systems, anti-G garments, aircrew eye and respiratory protective equipment, chemical biological protective oxygen masks and coveralls, and other types of AFE and aircrew chemical defense systems.
• Repairs fabric and rubber components, including protective clothing, thermal radiation barriers, flotation equipment, and various parachutes.
• Evaluates problems and determines feasibility of repair or replacement related to inspecting and repairing fabric, rubber equipment, and parachutes.
• Evaluates work orders for fabrication of authorized items.
• Installs and removes aircraft-installed AFE.
• Uses various types of test equipment such as altimeters, oxygen testers, leakage testers, radio testers, and other types of testers to conduct reliability testing on AFE and ACDE.
• Maintains inspection and accountability documentation on AFE issued to aircrews or prepositioned on aircraft.
• Operates, maintains, and inspects AFE machinery, test equipment, and tools.
• Performs operator maintenance and service inspections on shop equipment.
• Stores, handles, uses, and disposes of hazardous waste and materials based on environmental standards.
• Controls, issues, and safeguards aircrew side arms, and ammunition.
• Maintains applicable weapons qualification.
• Operates aircrew armories and inspects aircrew side arms as required.
• Ensures proper safety procedures are followed.
• Requisitions, stores, forecasts, handles, and transports ammunition, aircrew survival pyrotechnic devices, and other explosives such as releases, cutters, and signaling devices.
• Conducts aircrew continuation training; instructs aircrews on equipment use, operation, and capabilities.
• Conducts aircrew chemical defense equipment training; instructs aircrew on ACDE donning, doffing, and decontaminating procedures.
• Provides or assists in training aircrew techniques such as evasion procedures, emergency egress, post ejection/bailout descent procedures, combat survival procedures, environmental hazards, and other survival actions.
• Plans, directs, organizes, and evaluates AFE operational aspects such as equipment accountability, personnel reliability, mobility readiness, and other activities necessary to meet operational readiness.
• Maintains associated databases to ensure equipment accountability.
• Establishes performance standards, improves work methods, and advises on inspection, repair, and repack of aircrew flight equipment.
• Ensures serviceability based on required specifications and technical publications.
• Evaluates problems and determines feasibility of repair or replacement related to inspecting and repairing fabric, rubber equipment, and parachutes.

Requirements for Aircrew Flight Equipment, Aircrew Life Support

Please be aware this is a Part Time position and requires Military enlistment.

Special Requirements

• Enlistment in the Air National Guard
• Normal color vision
• US citizen / Naturalized
• 17-40 years old

• Minimum of High School Diploma or G.E.D.

• Good Physical Condition / Health
• Additionally, you can only have limited law violations and must pass a background check. All of this is performed as part of the screening process before you can actually join the Air Guard.

Knowledge is mandatory of

• AFE inspection and maintenance procedures
• parachute construction
• temperature and humidity affects on parachutes and other fabrics
• characteristics of rubberized items
• solvent, heat, and pressure affects on rubber
• proper handling, use, and disposal of hazardous waste, materials, and pyrotechnics
• aircrew flight and chemical defense equipment inspections, fitting, and maintenance procedures
• supply procedures; principles of contamination control
• related technical information, policies, procedures, techniques, and equipment
• contingency planning, training, operations, equipment supply procedures, directives and policy
• conducting aircrew continuation and aircrew chemical defense training.

Education.

• For entry into this specialty, completion of high school with courses in speech, general science, shop mechanics, and basic computer applications is desirable.

Benefits include

The Air National Guard offers many benefits to their unit members and their families such as

• Base Exchange
• Commissary
• Morale, Welfare and Recreation Facilities
• Up to $400,000 Life Insurance
• Retirement

Incentives may include

• Enlistment Bonus up to $20,000

• College Tuition in the form of the Montgomery GI Bill up to $24,000

• Student Loan Repayment up to $20,000

• Increased Rank for Non-Prior Service up to E-3