Military aviation occupations
# Military aviation occupations

Military aviation occupations are types of work either shared with commercial aviation or unique to military aviation, that provide skills for the operation of an air forces business. Often military aviation employees will have had higher education due to the complexity of the electrical and mechanical systems involved in aircraft design and maintenance, in ground operations, in control of airspace and in the air.

Military aviation occupations can be subdivided as follows:

    Airframe engineers
    Fuel systems engineers
    Instrumentation and electronics engineers
    Weapon systems engineers
    Runway design and maintenance
    Aviation safety and crash recovery occupations
    Air traffic control
    Hangar operations
    Air base operations
    Air operations command
    Fleet operations
    Conversion maintenance
    Pre-flight maintenance
    Fuel operations occupations
    Combat operations service
    Weapons service
    Flight crew occupations
    Weapons crew occupations
    Cargo crew occupations
    Passenger crew occupations
    Specialist crew occupations
    Air command occupations
    Air control occupations
    Air communications occupations
    Air search occupations
    Air target acquisition occupations
    Air search and rescue occupations
