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Air Force Enlisted Job Descriptions
COMMUNICATIONS - ELECTRONICS SYSTEMS CAREER FIELD

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Note: This career field is disestablished effective on November 1, 2009. All of the AFSCs (jobs) included in this career field have been converted to the 3D - Cyberspace Support career field.

The Communications-Electronics Systems Career Field encompasses the functions of installing, modifying, maintaining, repairing, and overhauling ground television equipment; ground weather equipment; air traffic control, aircraft control and warning, missile warning, and automatic tracking radar equipment; simulator and training systems; ground radio equipment, including carrier repeater, microwave, tropospheric scatter, flight facilities, and light and heavy, fixed and mobile radio equipment and space communications systems equipment; high-speed general and special purpose data processing equipment; automatic communications and cryptographic machine systems; teletypewriter and teleautograph equipment; electromechanical cryptographic equipment; space systems command and control; and associated electronic test equipment.

Included in this field are the functions of systems control, automatic tracking equipment operation, display systems operation, and associated communications-electronic equipment for which an operator position is not provided.

Excluded from this career field are the functions of operating radio and radar equipment, with the exceptions indicated in paragraph 1, and maintaining and overhauling electronic components peculiar to the Missile Electronic Maintenance Career Field, the Avionics Systems Career Field, or the Training Devices Career Field.

The following is a complete listing of AFSCs for the Communications - Electronics Systems Career Field.

    2E0X1
    Ground Radar Systems

    2E1X1
    Satellite, Wideband, and Telemetry Systems

    2E1X2
    Airfield Systems

    2E1X3
    Ground Radio Communications

    2E1X4
    Visual Imagery & Intrusion Detection Systems

    2E2X1
    Computer, Network, Switching, and Cryptographic Sys tems

    2E6X2
    Commications Cable and Antenna Systems

    2E6X3
    Voice Networks

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