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Army MOS 15Q Air Traffic Control Operator         
One of the ways the Army moves people and vehicles is by air. And it's the job of the Air Traffic
Control Operator to track planes and give landing and take-off instructions at air traffic control
facilities.

Some of your duties as an Air Traffic Control Operators may include:

  • Follow flights using visual, instrument and special flight rules
  • Assist in the installation and relocation of tactical air traffic control facilities
  • Process flight plan data
  • Maintain logs, records, files and tape recordings of voice communications
  • Control airborne and ground traffic

Training
Job training for an Air Traffic Control Operator requires nine weeks of Basic Training, where you
learn basic Soldiering skills, and 15 weeks of Advanced Individual Training and on-the-job
instruction. Part of this time is spent in a classroom and part in the field under simulated combat
conditions. Some of the skills you'll learn are:

  • Air traffic control management
  • Operation procedures for air traffic control
  • Communications and radar procedures
  • Aircraft recognition
  • Take-off, landing and ground control procedures

Advanced Responsibilities
Advanced Air Traffic Control Operators provides guidance, supervises and trains other Soldiers
within the same discipline. As an advanced level Air Traffic Control Operator, you may be involved
in:

  • Provide guidance on technical issues
  • Brief shift personnel on runway utilization, airfield conditions and weather and ground activity

Related Civilian Jobs
The skills you will learn as an Air Traffic Control Operator will allow you to be work at airports - in
towers and flight service stations - and in air route traffic control centers, and for the U.S.
Department of Defense, some work for private air traffic control companies providing service to non-
FAA towers and contract flight service stations.

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