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14J - - Air Defense C41 Tactical Operations Center Enhanced Operator Maintainer

By Rod Powers, About.com

Basic Job Description

An Air Defense C4I Tactical Operations Center Enhanced Operator is a member of the Army's air defense artillery team. The air defense tactical operations center operator supervises or serves as a member of a manual early warning network (MEWN) section, team, or platoon in operations and intelligence functions.

Duties performed by Soldiers in this MOS include:

Detects, tracks and identifies aircraft, correlates tracks, and broadcasts early warning information. Operates and performs preventive maintenance checks and services on the team vehicles and power generation equipment. Performs operations and intelligence duties in Air Defense units. Performs map operations. Operates over radio nets.

Supervises lower grade soldiers and provides technical guidance to the soldiers in the accomplishment of their duties. Inventories and destroys classified material and performs security functions.

Training Information

10 weeks, 3 days at Fort Bliss, TX

ASVAB Score Required: 100 in aptitude area MM, and 100 in aptitude area GT

Security Clearance: Secret

Strength Requirement: very heavy

Physical Profile Requirement: 222221

Other Requirements

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There is no civilian occupation that is directly equivalent to MOS 14J. However, the following civilian occupations make use of the skills developed through MOS 14J training and experience.

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