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Duties: Provides technical guidance to commanders and staff of activities with the mission of conducting/receiving airborne and/or airdrop operations. Supervises inspection of parachutes and parachute components to detect flaws in materials and workmanship. Supervises packing of parachutes. Ensures that unserviceable, non repairable, and overage parachutes are retired from inventory. Supervises airdrop rigging activities and airdrop equipment maintenance activities. Maintains compliance standards and criteria for life support systems and other airdrop equipment.

Minimum prerequisites:

• Be a SSG or above
• Minimum of eight years most recent experience in MOS 92R
• BNCOC or ANCOC graduate in MOS 92R
• Have documented a minimum of two years experience supervising operations in a packing shed, repair shop, cargo airdrop facility or storage warehouse.
• Jump master qualified and completed the Airdrop Load Inspectors Course
• Provide a hard (paper) copy of four NCOER’s which reflect recent outstanding and exceptional duty performance ratings in MOS 92R. Copy of four NCOER’s must be provided even if already on service member's fiche.
• Due to the low density and the single annual certification, a significant amount of accession qualifications is placed on enlisted training in MOS 92R, field experience and peer recommendations. Therefore, this specialty is closed for transition of officers.
• Have completed a minimum of six credit hours of college level English. (Successful completion of the English College Level Examination Program (CLEP) is the only acceptable substitute). Speech is not considered an English substitute. No waivers for the above prerequisites will be favorably considered.

Preferred qualifications (Minimum plus):

• Applicants exceeding 12 years Active Federal Service (AFS) must be approved by HQDA.
• Where applicable, it is strongly encouraged that each applicant (especially those with less than 7 years service) enclose a letter of recommendation from a senior Airdrop Systems Technician.

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Information Courtesy of Army Regulation 611-21 and United States Army