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Air Force Recruiting Service, with headquarters at Randolph Air Force
Base Texas, is a major component of Air Education and Training Command.
Mission
The mission of the Air Force Recruiting Service is to recruit a high-quality
volunteer force from a cross-section of America responsive to the personnel
needs of today's Air Force. Emphasis is on recruiting people with no
prior military service--intelligent young men and women who can be trained
to handle the sophisticated systems and equipment of today's highly technical
aerospace force.
Air Force Recruiting Service is also responsible for recruiting chaplains,
physicians, dentists, nurses, health care administrators and Biomedical
Science Corps officers in a variety of specialties from civilian sources,
and for obtaining officer candidates for the Air Force Reserve Officer
Training Corps and Officer Training School.
 Organization
The commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service functions in a dual
capacity. He is also Air Education and Training Command's director of
recruiting programs.
The headquarters directs the recruiting activities of four groups and
28 squadrons with approximately 2,600 active duty and 300 civilian personnel.
It develops, implements and manages various recruiting programs. The
headquarters staff participates in the recruitment and training of top-quality
noncommissioned officers for service at some 990 recruiting offices around
the country and overseas. The Air Force has recruiting offices in all
50 states, Puerto Rico and Guam. Because large numbers of Americans live
overseas, recruiters are also stationed in Germany, Japan and England.
Each squadron has a specialized health professions team to recruit health-care
professionals within their geographic zones.
Every Air Force recruiter is a volunteer who is selected from among
the best in his or her career field. Recruiters are trained at the Recruiting
School at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. Air Force Recruiting Service
uses business principles, including sales training and advertising, to
market the U.S. Air Force as a challenging opportunity for young Americans.
It serves as the executive agent for Air Force recruiting advertising
and is a member of the Joint Recruiting Advertising Advisory Council
and Joint Market Research Committee.
Recruiting Service cooperates with the Military Entrance Processing
Command, Air Force Reserve, Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
and Air Education and Training Command's director of plans and programs
to provide the Air Force the manpower it needs.
History
When the Air Force became a separate department in 1947, the Army and
the Air Force conducted a joint recruiting program through the Army's
recruiting organization. The Air Force assumed responsibility for its
own recruiting in 1954, and assigned the mission to the 3500th U.S. Air
Force Recruiting Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. In 1959,
it was changed to the U.S. Air Force Recruiting Service. Six years later
the headquarters moved to its present location at Randolph AFB, Texas.
Recruiting Service rose to numbered Air Force level in 1966 and remained
so until 1972, when it was integrated with Air Training Command.
Recruiting Service was re-established in 1974, as an operational headquarters
under Air Training Command.
In 1996, Recruiting Service created the Air Base, its official homepage
on the World Wide Web, to spread the word about Air Force opportunities.
Anyone with access to the Internet can visit the site at www.airforce.com.
Point Of Contact (Recruiting Information)
For recruiting information, call your nearest Air Force recruiter or
the Air Force Opportunities Center at 1-800-423-USAF (8723).
Point Of Contact
Headquarters Recruiting Service, Public
Affairs Office; 550 D Street West, Suite 1; Randolph Air Force Base,
Texas 78150-4527; DSN 487-5993 or (210) 652-5993.
Above Information Courtesy
of United States Air Force
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