Air Force Stressed Job Listing

Air Force Stressed Job ListingAir Force Stressed Job ListingThe U.S. Air Forces Non-Commissioned Officer Retraining Program (NCORP) will allow veteran airmen (E-5 and above) who have re-enlisted at least once to retrain into undermanned job specialties in 2019. These undermanned specialties are referred to as stressed jobs. Airmen applying for such jobs must already be in career fields that are adequately manned. Staff sergeants applying must have less than 12 years of active duty, and E-7s and E-8s must have fewer than 16 years of service to be eligible to retrain under the NCORP.DefinitionTheAir Force publishesstressed jobseach spring after it examines all enlisted and commissioned officer jobs and assigns stress ratings.Stress is driven by three main factors manpower, manning, and deployments. The driving force is different for each career field, but when a career field is stressed, it means there are not enough people to adequately carry out the assigned mission.The stress levels provide Air Force leadership with an objective, single means to measure Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) jobs. The results serve as an indicator of problems- not an absolute statement of problems. The formula provides a starting point to pick out abnormalities. It also allows Air Force leadership to measure progress. The stress level is assigned based on these parametersA stress level of 1.0 meansthere is no deployment or home station shortfall.A stress level greater than 1.0 meansthere is a shortfall. The shortfall is expressed as a percentage of assigned partnel. For example, a stress-level rating of 1.2 means that each person at a home station, on average, is doing the work of 1.2 people. A stress level lower than 1.0 meansthere is a surplus. The surplus is expressed as a percentage of assigned personnel. For example, a stress-level rating of 0.8 means that each person at a home station, on average, is doing the work of 0.8 people.Air Force GoalsThe Air Force has a goal of trying to achieve a stress level of 1.2 or less for each AFSC job. Just because a job is considered stressed, does not necessarily mean that thejob has openings for new recruits. The AFSC may be adequately manned in the first-termer (new recruits) ranks but considered stressed because of a shortage in the noncommissioned officer (NCO) ranks.Even if the stress is caused or partially caused by a shortage of personnel in the first-termerranks, available training seats come into play. Air Force technical schools can train only so many students at any given time, and all the projected training slots already may be filled by people already in the Delayed Enlistment Program (DEP), or already in the Air Force, but awaiting a training slot.Increasing the number of training slots available is generally not a viable option. Adding more slots means adding more resources. More instructors must be added, dormitory space would need to be added, support personnel would need to be increased, chow halls ex panded, etc. This process is neither cheap nor fast.These are the top stressed jobs in the Air Force, as of 2019AFSCCareer FieldSlots Available for 2018-193p0Security forces3181B411Cyber warfare operations career field2093F211Education and training career field1561C311Command post-career field1244N051FAerospace medical service job1161A111Flight engineer field1151a911Special missions aviation field- Gunner AC1301084N051FFlight and operational medicine technicians914N051CIndependent duty medical technicians59