Type of MOS : NMOS
Rank Range: GySgt to Pvt
Job Description: Radar approach controllers perform duties within a radar facility incident to the control of aircraft at an established air traffic control or expeditionary airfield, maintaining radar surveillance of approach control airspace, processing and coordinating aircraft passing through the terminal control area entering arrival/departure control airspace. This MOS may be assigned as a NMOS only.
Job Requirements:
(1) Must meet the requirements/prerequisites of MOS 7257.
(2) Must have a secret security clearance.
(3) Qualify as a radar approach controller or the commanding Officer of a squadron level unit or higher under which Marine Air Traffic Controllers are assigned and where air traffic control services are being provided in an expeditionary/tactical field environment of at least tour consecutive months, may certify a Marine as a radar approach controller.
Duties:
(1) GySgt to Pvt:
(a) Performs duties as a radar approach controller.
(b) Performs duties as a radar approach controller.
(2) GySgt to LCpl: Supervise and instruct trainees on all operational positions in a radar air traffic control facility.
(3) GySgt to cpl: Performs duties as a radar supervisor in accordance with the current edition of the Air Traffic control NATOPS manual (NAVAIR 00-80T-114) .
(4) GySgt to SSgt:
(a) May act as a crew chief.
(b) Organizes and administers a radar air traffic control facility.
(5) GySgt: May act as an MCAS ATC Facility NCOlC, radar chief, ATC training chief, Air Traffic Control specialist (ATCS) examiner, or a detachment NCOlC within a Marine Air Control Squadron (MACS).
Related Department of Labor Occupation Codes :
Chief Controller 193.167-010.
Related Marine Corps Jobs:
(1) Air Traffic Controller, 7257.
(2) Senior Air Traffic Controller, 7291.
Above information derived from MCBUL 1200, parts 2 and 3
