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1 31 October 2020 AIR FORCE OFFICER CLASSIFICATION DIRECTORY (AFOCD) The Official Guide to the Air FORCE OFFICER CLASSIFICATION Codes A Specialty for Every Air FORCE Job and The Qualifications Necessary to Perform Each Job OPR: HQ AFPC/DP3DW Certified by: HQ AFPC/DP3 Supersedes AFOCD 30 April 2020 This page is left blank on purpose This Guide established the occupation structure of the Air FORCE OFFICER FORCE and implements Air FORCE Policy Directive (AFPD) 36-21, Utilization and CLASSIFICATION of Air FORCE Military Personnel. The occupational structure is flexible to permit OFFICER personnel to broadly specialize as necessary to meet changing mission requirements.

2 Refer to AFI 36-2101, Classifying Military Personnel ( OFFICER and Enlisted), for military CLASSIFICATION tenets and base level procedures . Specialty descriptions and other identifiers outline essential Air FORCE managerial, technical, and professional duties. The job structure and specialties provide a planned pattern of OFFICER abilities. Officers must work with commanders and supervisors to develop their capabilities within these specialties. Maintain and dispose of records created as a result of prescribed processes in accordance with the Records Disposition Schedule (RDS) accessed from the web-based Records Information Management System.

3 RELEASABILITY: There are no releasability restrictions on this publication. SUMMARY OF REVISIONS This guide is the official directory for all military OFFICER CLASSIFICATION descriptions, codes, and identifiers. Updates to this directory are according to the Air FORCE Career Field Managers Guide available at the myPers. This update contains all changes that have been approved and scheduled for implementation on 31 October 2019 and provides Change Summary and Conversion Instruction Guides (CS&CIG) or Change Summary Guides (CSG). Each CS&CIG will include a summary of each change, conversions instructions for all AFSC changes, mergers, additions, realignments, and deletions of CLASSIFICATION identifiers, and appropriate page changes to the directory.

4 Subsequent Change Summary Guides along with the description changes will be identified by the effective date and its numeric sequence for that particular year. Additionally, minor changes and corrections throughout the publication include correcting spelling or editing errors. When a star () precedes the specialty description or title, it denotes a major or significant revision from the previous edition the reader must read the particular section of the publication in its entirety to determine the extent of the changed material. This This Directory contains the Change Summary and Conversion Guide, Quick-Reference Guide, OfficerClassification Structure Chart, Authorized Prefixes, Reporting Identifiers, Special Duty Identifiers, Air Forcespecialty descriptions, List of OFFICER AFSCs Authorized for Use Without Shredouts, and OFFICER SpecialExperience Identifiers.

5 The descriptions and codes identify different types of jobs, and qualifications needed tofill them and succeed in an AFS. These standards help classify and assign officers, develop programs for trainingand professional development, and structure unit manpower AFI 36-2101, Classifying Military Personnel ( OFFICER and Enlisted), provides guidance to award andwithdraw OFFICER CLASSIFICATION codes. Manpower procedures are in AFI 38-201, Determining ManpowerRequirements, Table of Contents Section I Cross-Functional AFSC Applicability Section I-A Foreign Language Skills Section I-B Authorized Prefixes, OFFICER Section II AFSCs/Identifiers 1 XXX operations AFSCs, OFFICER 2 XXX Logistics AFSCs, OFFICER 3 XXX Support AFSCs, OFFICER 4 XXX Medical AFSCs, OFFICER 5 XXX Professional AFSCs (Law and Chaplain), OFFICER 6 XXX Acquisition and Financial Management AFSCs (Scientific Research & Dev, Dev Eng, Acquisition, Contracting and Finance)

6 , OFFICER 7 XXX Special Investigations, OFFICER 8 XXX Special Duty Identifiers (SDI), OFFICER 9 XXX Reporting Identifiers (RI), OFFICER Appendix A CIP Education Matrices Section III Special Experience Identifiers, OFFICER --Introduction Section III-A Special Experience Identifiers, OFFICER --Activity Codes Section III-B Special Experience Identifiers, OFFICER --Experience Sets Attachment 1 Change Summary and Conversion Instructions, OFFICER Attachment 2 Quick Reference Guide, OFFICER Attachment 3 CLASSIFICATION Structure Chart, OFFICER Attachment 4 AFSCs Authorized for Use Without Shredouts SECTION I (Changed 31 Jan 12)

7 Cross-Functional AFSC Applicability SECTION I-A (Established 31 Jan 12) Foreign Language Skills Skill in languages other than English may be desired in any AFSC. Please refer to the annual USAF/A1P Technical Training PGL Language Targets provided to USAFA/DPM, AFPC/DPSIR, 2 AF Det 1 and AFRS/RSO for AFSCs with specific language requirements. SECTION I-B AUTHORIZED PREFIXES (Changed 30 April 2020) Prefix A Operational Warfare Instructor (Changed 30 April 2020) Prefix A identifies positions on manning documents and officers serving in, or qualified to serve in, positions requiring knowledge of the characteristics, operation, integration, and effects of fighter, bomber, airlift, rescue, reconnaissance, information operations , space, and weapons on the operational level of warfare, and the ability to instruct in this discipline.

8 The operational warfare instructor plans, organizes, and instructs in all areas pertaining to the development and execution of an Air Campaign. This includes the integration and execution of all capabilities and forces on the operational level of warfare. Operational warfare instructors will normally be assigned as cell and team chiefs in operational Air operations Centers. Cell and Team Chiefs of the following areas are authorized attendance to the C2 WAC: Strategy, Plans, Ops, ISR, Air Mobility, JGAT, Ops Assessment, MAAP, ATO Production, C2 Plans, Off Ops, Def Ops, TMO, Tgt/BDA, ACF, ISR Ops, IW, Space, Comm, Rescue, Legal, Logistics, SOLE.

9 Affix to the Duty AFSC upon assignment of officers to these positions and retain only so long as they are incumbents. Award and affix to the awarded AFSC (primary, second, or third) in which qualification is demonstrated. Retain so long as the OFFICER remains qualified. Officers must possess the following prerequisite for award of this prefix: Completion of the Command and Control Warrior Advanced Course (C2 WAC) (PDS code CON and PDS 1ZZ). Use prefix A only with the following awarded AFSCs: 11XX 1 2XX 13BX 13DX 13MX 13NX 13OX 13SX 14N1/3/4 16GX 17 DXS 17 SXS 18XX 19Z3A/4A 19Z3B/4B 19Z3C/4C 21AX 21 MXX 21RX 51JX Prefix BSquadron operations / operations Support OFFICER (Change 31 October 2020) Prefix B identifies positions on manning documents and officers serving in, or qualified to serve in, positions as Squadron (Sq) operations OFFICER or senior Sq operations Support OFFICER in operational Sqs assigned to operations groups at the wing level.

10 NOTE: This prefix is not authorized for use in operations groups at any level, or in Squadrons that report directly to organizations above wing level ( FOA, DRU, NAF, and MAJCOM). It is authorized for use in operations Squadrons or in operations support Squadrons that report to an operations group aligned directly under a numbered Air FORCE ([NAF)]. Also, it is authorized in Weather Squadrons that are assigned to an Air operations Group aligned under a NAF, and in Intel Squadrons assigned to independent Intel Groups aligned directly under 25th AF. Prefix is authorized for Battlefield Airmen training and training support squadrons assignedto a Battlefield Airman Training group.